RUSS 29907. RUSSIA AND UKRAINE: CULTURAL HISTORIES AND MYTHOLOGIES Exploration of issues in Russian and Ukrainian cultures and their interrelation through a cultural-historical lens, with particular focus on contrasting mythologies of national, cultural, social, and political identities in Russian imperial, Soviet, and contemporary post-Soviet contexts, as represented in Russian and Ukrainian literature, music, film, intellectual life and other sociocultural phenomena. Conducted in English. No language or region-specific background necessary. [AH, GE]