WEEK 1
January 23 / Monday: THE IMPERIAL ERA
• TEXTBOOK
Hoffman, The Stalinist Era, pp. 9-25 (16 pages)
January 30 / Monday: NO CLASS
WEEK 2
February 6 / Monday: THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION and CIVIL WAR
• TEXTBOOK
Suny, The Soviet Experiment, Ch. 2 (18 pages)
Hoffman, The Stalinist Era, pp. 25-35 (10 pages)
• PRIMARY SOURCES
Lenin, "April Theses" (pp. 39-42)
First Decrees of New Soviet Government (pp. 63-67)
"Lenin's Letter to V. V. Kuraev, E. B. Bosh and A. E. Minkin" (pp. 84-86)
WEEK 3
February 13 / Monday: ROAD TO DICTATORSHIP & NEP
• TEXTBOOK
Hoffman, The Stalinist Era, pp. 35-39 (5 pages)
Suny, The Soviet Experiment, pp. 201-211, 213-231 (27 pages)
• PRIMARY SOURCES
"Lenin's Testament" (pp. 123-124)
Alexandra Kollontai, "Sexual Relations and the Class Struggle"
• MOVIE
Watch Aelita (1924, directed by Iakov Protazanov, 113 mins)
WEEK 4
February 21 / Tuesday: COLLECTIVIZATION
• TEXTBOOK
Hoffman, The Stalinist Era, pp. 44-52, 74-80 (14 pages)
• PRIMARY SOURCES
Kopelev, "The Last Grain Collections" (pp. 234-244)
Stalin, "Dizzy with Success" (pp. 230-233)
WEEK 5
February 27 / Monday: INDUSTRIALIZATION
• TEXTBOOK
Hoffman, The Stalinist Era, pp. 52-60 (8 pages)
• ASSIGNED BOOK
Kotkin, Magnetic Mountain (366 pages)
WEEK 6
March 6 / Monday: UKRAINE AND NATIONALITIES
• TEXTBOOK
Hoffman, The Stalinist Era, pp. 66-74 (8 pages)
• SECONDARY SOURCE
Terry Martin, "An Affirmative-Action Empire: The Emergence of the Soviet Nationalities Policy, 1919-1923" (pp. 97-107)
SPRING BREAK
WEEK 7
March 20 / Monday: THE GREAT TERROR
• TEXTBOOK
Hoffman, The Stalinist Era, pp. 103-116 (13 pages)
• PRIMARY SOURCES
"Stalin to the Secretaries of the Obkoms" (pp. 266-267)
"Bukharin's Letter to Stalin" (pp. 269-273)
"Mekhlis to Stalin and Ezhov" (pp. 273-274)
• SECONDARY SOURCE
Sheila Fitzpatrick, "Revisionism in Soviet History," History and Theory 46, no. 4 (2007): 77-91. (14 pages)
• MOVIE
Burnt by the Sun (1994, directed by Nikita Mikhalkov, 135 mins)
WEEK 8
March 27 / Monday: ORDINARY STALINISM
• ASSIGNED BOOK
Fitzpatrick, Everyday Stalinism
WEEK 9
April 3 / Monday: THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR
• TEXTBOOK
Hoffman, The Stalinist Era, pp. 117-145 (28 pages)
• MOVIE
Come and See (1985, directed by Elem Klimov, 142 mins)
April 10 / Monday: NO CLASS
WEEK 10
April 17 / Monday: STALINIST CULTURE + THE GULAG
• TEXTBOOK
Hoffman, The Stalinist Era, pp. 81-103 (22 pages)
• READINGS
Davies, " 'A Mother's Cares': Women Workers and Popular Opinion in Stalin's Russia, 1934-41"
Applebaum, Gulag, Chapters 10 and 11 (pp. 183-241) (58 pages)
Applebaum, Gulag Voices, Chapter 3 (pp. 39-47) (18 pages)
WEEK 11
April 24 / Monday: ORIGINS OF THE COLD WAR / LIFE AFTER WAR
CLASS CANCELLED TO SUPPORT FORDHAM GRADUATE STUDENTS
• TEXTBOOK
Hoffman, The Stalinist Era, pp. 146-171 (25 pages)
• SECONDARY SOURCE
Azadovskii, "From Anti-Westernism to Anti-Semitism: Stalin and the Impact of the 'Anti-Cosmopolitan' Campaigns on Soviet Culture" (pp. 66-80)
• PRIMARY SOURCE
Khrushchev's Secret Speech (read part 1, skim through part 2)
WEEK 12
May 1 / Monday:
• TEXTBOOK
Hoffman, The Stalinist Era, pp. 146-171 (25 pages)
• SECONDARY SOURCE
Azadovskii, "From Anti-Westernism to Anti-Semitism: Stalin and the Impact of the 'Anti-Cosmopolitan' Campaigns on Soviet Culture" (pp. 66-80)
• PRIMARY SOURCE
Khrushchev's Secret Speech (read part 1, skim through part 2)
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS # 4 DUE
FINALS WEEK
May 12 / Friday: FINAL PAPER DUE by 5:00 PM (hard copies only)
PLEASE LEAVE A HARD COPY IN MY MAILBOX IN THE HISTORY DEPARTMENT ON THE 6TH FLOOR OF DEALY HALL.
May 15 / Monday, 1:30 - 3:30 PM
(IN-CLASS) QUIZ 2