Lecture, three hours. Examination of cold-war Central European culture through prism of prose fiction, essays, and film from 1947 to 1989. Analysis of strategies of Polish, Czech, Hungarian, and East German writers as articulation of tensions, contradictions, and compromises informing communist rule in central and eastern Europe, with focus on culture as node of resistance as well as accommodation to communist system. Concurrently scheduled with course C126. S/U or letter grading.