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Since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, scholars have debated the relationship between Russian culture and the imperialist politics of the Russian state, and correspondingly, how the Western audience should reinterpret Russian classical literature, particularly the texts that shaped the idea of "great Russian culture." In this course, we will analyze Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace and Fyodor Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov through the lens of postcolonial theory, situating each novel within its intellectual context and within each writer's conception of "Russianness." No knowledge of Russian is required. Slavic majors must take the course as WIM.