WEEK 1
January 22 / Monday: INTRODUCTION TO RUSSIAN HISTORY
• Hoffman, The Stalinist Era, pp. 9-25
WEEK 2
January 29 / Monday: THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION AND CIVIL WAR
• Smith, Russia in Revolution, pp. 1-262
WEEK 3
February 5 / Monday: THE ROAD TO DICTATORSHIP AND NEP
• Smith, Russia in Revolution, pp. 263-373
RESEARCH SUMMARY DUE [everyone except Carolyn]
WEEK 4
February 12 / Monday: EXPERIMENTS IN CULTURE
• Suny, The Soviet Experiment, pp. 201-208, 213-231
• WATCH MOVIE: Aelita (1924, directed by Iakov Protazanov)
WEEK 5
February 20 / Tuesday: COLLECTIVIZATION
• Hoffman, The Stalinist Era, pp. 44-52, 74-80 (14 pages)
• Fitzpatrick, Stalin's Peasants (whole book)
RESEARCH SUMMARY DUE [everyone except Maria]
WEEK 6
February 26 / Monday: UKRAINE AND NATIONALITIES
• Hoffman, The Stalinist Era, pp. 66-74 (9 pages)
• Terry Martin, "An Affirmative-Action Empire: The Emergence of the Soviet Nationalities Policy, 1919-1923," pp. 97-107 (11 pages)
• Ronald Suny, The Soviet Experiment, Chapter 4 ("Nationalism and Revolution")
WEEK 7
March 4 / Monday: INDUSTRIALIZATION
• Hoffman, The Stalinist Era, pp. 52-60
• Kotkin, Magnetic Mountain (whole book)
BOOK ANALYSIS 1 DUE
WEEK 8
March 11 / Monday: THE GREAT TERROR
• Hoffman, The Stalinist Era, pp. 103-116
• Harris, The Great Fear (whole book)
• Fitzpatrick, "Revisionism in Soviet History," pp. 77-91
RESEARCH SUMMARY DUE [everyone except Ryan]
WEEK 9
March 18 / Monday: STALINIST CULTURE
• Hoffman, The Stalinist Era, pp. 81-103
• Brooks, Thank You, Comrade Stalin!, Chapter 5
• Davies, " 'A Mother's Cares': Women Workers and Popular Opinion in Stalin's Russia, 1934-41," pp. 89-109
• Davies, Popular Opinion in Stalin's Russia, pp. 147-183
SUBMIT TOPIC AND ABSTRACT FOR FINAL PAPER
SPRING BREAK: March 25-29
WEEK 10
April 8 / Monday: ORDINARY STALINISM
• Fitzpatrick, Everyday Stalinism (whole book)
• WATCH MOVIE: Burnt by the Sun (1994, directed by Nikita Mikhalkov, 135 mins)
BOOK ANALYSIS 2 DUE
WEEK 11
April 15 / Monday: WORLD WAR II
• Hoffman, The Stalinist Era, pp. 117-145
• Reid, Leningrad (whole book)
• WATCH MOVIE: Come and See (1985, directed by Elem Klimov, 142 mins)
RESEARCH SUMMARY DUE [everyone except Kyra and Gavin]
WEEK 12
April 22 / Monday: THE GULAG
• Barenberg, Gulag Town, Company Town (whole book)
• Applebaum, Gulag, Chapters 10 and 11, pp. 183-241
RESEARCH SUMMARY DUE [everyone except Ethan and Anthony]
WEEK 13
April 29 / Monday: LIFE AFTER WAR
• Hoffman, The Stalinist Era, pp. 146-171
• Suny, The Soviet Experiment, Chapter 6
• Azadovskii, "From Anti-Westernism to Anti-Semitism: Stalin and the Impact of the 'Anti-Cosmopolitan' Campaigns on Soviet Culture," pp. 66-80
SUBMIT BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR FINAL PAPER
WEEK 14
May 6 / Monday: STALINISM AS PAST
• "Khrushchev's Secret Speech," pp. 393-403
• Etkind, "Post-Soviet Hauntology: Cultural Memory of the Soviet Terror," pp. 182-200
• Boym, "Nostalgia and Post-Communist Memory," pp. 57-71
• Fitzpatrick, "Afterword: The Thaw in Retrospect," pp. 482-491
WEEK 15
May 13 / Monday: PRESENTATIONS