Explores literary experimentation with concepts of Eastern Christianity (e.g., spirit, soul, heaven, hell, crucifixion, resurrection, kenosis, sin, immortality) in the increasingly anti-religious environment of late imperial and Soviet Russia. Authors include Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Akhmatova, Mandelstam, Platonov, Tarkovsky. Readings from philosophy/theory. Carries humanities divisional credit in CAS. Also offered as CAS RN 524 A1 and as CAS XL 560 A1.