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Dr. A. Henriksson

History 412 is a survey of late Imperial, Soviet, and post-Soviet Russia. Special emphasis is placed on Russian political, social, economic, and cultural development, on Russia's relations with the wider world, and on the experience of non-Russian minorities within the Tsarist and Soviet systems.

Required Readings
  a.) Primary Source Documents I-III (handouts)
  b.) Books for purchase:
         G. Freeze, ed. Russia A History
          T. Riha, Readings in Russian Civilization, vols. 2 & 3
          A. Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Written Work, Grading Procedures
Students must submit a formal research paper of 3,000-4,000 words. The papers are due on Friday, 27 April 2001. Late papers will be penalized 5 points per day!

Two examinations will be held during the term. There will be a final examination.
Grades will be computed as follows:
Research paper         25%
1st Exam                  20% 
2nd Exam                 25% 
Class performance      5% 
Final Exam                25% 

Reading Schedule

UNIT I: Russia from the Great Reforms to the Great War (1855-1914)

Russia in the 1850s; modernization under Alexander II; liberalism, populism, and reaction in the late 19th century; industrialization and the fate of the peasantry; the rise of Marxism and its rivals; the 1905 Revolution; Tsarist Russia in the international arena; the national minorities in the late Tsarist era; the constitutional regime after 1906.

Freeze, chapters 7-8
"Emacipation of the Serfs" (Documents I)
K. Breshkovskaia, "Going to the People" (Riha 2)
G. Uspenskii, "From a Village Diary" (Riha 2)
I. Aksakov, "A Slavophile Statement" (Riha 2)
K. Pobedonostsev. "The Falsehood of Democracy" (Riha 2)
P. Miliukov, "Russian Liberals", (Riha 2)
"Industrial Workers in the 1 880s" (Riha 2)
S. Witte, "An Economic Policy for the Empire" (Riha 2)
V.I. Lenin. "Two Tactics of Social Democracy" (Documents I)
"Revolution in 1905" (Documents I)
Nicholas II "Speech from the Throne" (Riha 2)
"The Government's Response to the 1st Duma"(Riha 2)
P. Stolypin, "We Need s Great Russia" (Riha 2)

Russia in World War I; the February and October Revolutions of 1917; Civil War and
foreign intervention; building the Communist system; the struggle for Lenin's succession;
forging a Soviet diplomacy; Stalin and Soviet totalitarianism.

Freeze, chapters 9-11
P. Durnovo, "Memorandum to Nicholas II" (Riha 2)
"The Revolution of 1917" (Documents II)
"The Russian Village: Summer, 1917" (Riha 3)
"An Appeal of the Government of the RSFSR to the Chinese People/Conditions
for Admission to the Communist International" (Documents II)
V.I. Lenin, "Testament" (Documents II)
N. Bulcharin, "Down with Factionalism" (Riha 3)
J. Stalin, "Dizzy with Success" (Riha 3)
"The Purge Trials" (Riha 3)
V. Tchemavin, "I Speak for the Silent" (Riha 3)
J. Scott/V. Katayev, "A Day in Magnitogorsk" (Riha 3)

The Soviet Union in World War II; the development of the Cold War; post-war reconstruction and late Stalinism; Khrushchev and de-Stalinization; "Peaceful Coexistence" and international rivalry in the nuclear age; the rise of the dissident movement; economic stagnation in the Brezhnev era; the Gorbachev reforms; the collapse of the USSR; the post-Communist era begins.

Freeze, chapters 12-14
A.Solzhenitsyn, entire novel
D. Pavlov, "The Blockade of Leningrad" (Riha 3)
G. Deborin, "The Second World War" (Riha 3)
S. Eisenstein, "My Vicious and Worthless Film" (Riha 3)
"Official Glorification of Stalin on His 70flt Birthday" (Documents III)
N. Krushchev, "Destalinization Speech" (Documents III)
N. Krushchev, "Some Fundamental Questions of Present-Day International Development" (Documents III)
A. Sakharov, "Soviet Society" (Documents III)
"The Caucasus in Turmoil" (Documents III)

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