Tag: Russian culture

This semester’s Introduction to Russian Culture is smaller by choice than the last several years, as we did not have a graduate student who could teach it with me. So I lowered the cap to 40 (from the usual 60) and have been teaching it solo. This, I admit, is easier from the standpoint of… Continue reading Pop Quizzes and Ordering Quizzes

Thirty is the number I have somewhat arbitrarily taken as my limit number for Introduction to Russian Culture for the coming semester: ten artifacts/episodes from “Old” Russian culture, ten artifacts/episodes from “imperial” Russian culture, and another ten from the (again rather arbitrarily designated) post-1917 to the present “period.” I say arbitrary, but there’s an organizational… Continue reading Trusting Up to Thirty