RUSSN 31Introduction to Russian and Soviet Film
Russian · 5 units · Undergraduate lower division (0-99)
Focus on cinema and culture of 20th-century Russia and Soviet Union, from 1917 Russian Revolution and to 1997, shortly after collapse of USSR. Chronologically and thematically organized introduction to cinemas of USSR including films by Russian, Jewish, Ukrainian, Armenian, and Georgian directors, and by women as well as men. Study centers on representative films of the Soviet era, showing how images can be manipulated to serve an ideological agenda, and how the past (1917 Russian Revolution, World War II, Cold War, collapse of USSR) continues to shape our present.
P/NP or letter grading.
When it runs
- Winter 2026
- Winter 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
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