enrollments query

[Nancy Condee]

I think Morozov would do just fine, though perhaps not in ways we intend.

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I recall that, when I started learning Russian, my friends would
specifically ask if I now understood the dialogue from The Hunt for Red
October.  I don't know precisely what the appeal of that film is, but it
firmly adhered itself to the imaginations of many adolescent boys.
Perhaps it was the idea of a hero (Sean Connery) in a traditional
villain's place, or the fact that the Soviets had never looked so
western.  Or maybe it was the image of all those uniforms . . .

Can anyone help me put together a short list of "model Soviet citizens"
created for pushing quotas and other officially sanctioned behaviour in
the USSR?  I have in mind the example of a boy (my recollection is not
perfect, so I may be mixing two examples) named Pavlik Morozov, who
joined the Komsomol and denounced his own parents, or the factory worker
who punched ten thousand rivets (or something like that) in one day and
became a sort of celebrity.  I'm looking for examples where a specific
name was attached to the desired behaviour, so that the line would go,
"Be like [enter name here], do [enter activity here] today!".

Kevin Bray
University of Toronto



On Friday, September 20, 2002, at 11:48 , Lilya Kaganovsky wrote:

> And it used to be that people would read Dostoevsky in high school and
> fall in love...
> Here I thought there was nothing worse than all those seamen singing
> "Soiuz ne rushimyi..." in heavily accented Russian.
>
> -Lilya Kaganovsky
> University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
>
>
>
> On Friday, September 20, 2002, at 09:03 AM, Cosentini, Mary Anne wrote:
>
>> Ben,
>> These are the results that I got from my first year students (12) at
>> Connecticut College.
>> 1. The department ran a strong publicity campaign; seven out of 12 said
>> that
>> they had seen the ads.
>> 2.  None said that the language or course had been recommended to
>> them.  One
>> student said she had heard that the course was challenging, and that
>> motivated her to take it.
>> 3.  Of the 12 students, half had taken some sort of related course
>> (history,
>> literature, or Russian politics)
>> 4.  Most interesting were the reasons why each student decided to study
>> Russian. One said that it was because her father was Russian, another
>> said
>> that the country and culture fascinated him, others believed that
>> fluency in
>> Russian would be needed in the future, that it would be an asset to a
>> major
>> in International Relations.  Some said that they wanted to study a less
>> common language, that they wanted to study in Russia and they wanted to
>> be
>> able to read Russian literature in the original. Finally, one student
>> (and
>> not the first in my career) said that he decided to study Russian after
>> watching "The Hunt for Red October."  I think that we'll be showing
>> that
>> movie on campus more frequently.
>> Regards,
>> Mary Anne Cosentini
>>
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> Program in Comparative Literature & World Literature
> Department of Slavic Languages and Literature
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