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Introduction to the Course |
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| 2 |
The Setting: Tsarism |
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| 3 |
The Revolutionary Tradition |
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| 4 |
The Revolutions of 1917 |
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| 5 |
The Civil War |
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| 6 |
The Crisis of War Communism & the Shift to NEP |
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| 7 |
Defining Bolshevism |
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Film: "Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks" |
First Paper Due in Class |
| 8 |
The Politics and Economics of NEP |
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| 9 |
The Great Break: Collectivization & Industrialization |
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| 10 |
The New Economy |
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| 11 |
Purge and Terror |
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| 12 |
World War II |
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| 13 |
The Origins of the Cold War |
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Film: "Cranes are Flying" |
Second Paper Due in Class |
| 14 |
The Khrushchev Years: Thaw and Social Change |
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The Brezhnev Era: Politics and Economics |
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The Brezhnev Era: Social Change |
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| 17 |
Gorbachev's Political Revolution |
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| 18 |
Nationalism |
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| 19 |
Collapse of the Soviet Union |
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| 20 |
New Russia Emerges, 1991-1993 |
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Third Paper Due in Class |
| 21 |
From Yeltsin to Putin, 1993-2001 |
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| 22 |
Contemporary Russia |
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