After the Fall: Media and Culture in Post-Soviet Russia

THE WILD NINETIES

Week 4: Screening Privatization

Mon, September 15th
Roy Medvedev, Post-Soviet Russia: A Journey Through the Yeltsin Era Introduction & Ch.1 (pp. I-46)

Wed, September 17th
Medvedev
, Ch. 5 (pp.169-203)
TV Commercials for the MMM Pyramid Scheme

Week 5: Postsocialism and Postmodernism

Mon, September 22nd
Homo Zapiens by Viktor Pelevin (1999), Chapters 1-5, pp. 1-67
If you'd like to read in Russian: Generation P, Главы 1-5
In class: Pizza Hut Gorbachev TV Commercial (1997)

Wed, September 24th
Prince of Gosplan.pdf  
by Victor Pelevin
If you'd like to read in Russian: Принц Госплана

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