31
Jan—Introduction and
Overview.
2 Feb—Survey
of Russian
History.
4 Feb—Origins: Varangians, Mongols, and Others.
By Friday, read Thompson, ch 1, 2,
3.
7 Feb—The
Rise of Moscow
and the Russian State. Thompson,
ch 4.
9 Feb—The
Political
Milieu of Peter the Great.
Thompson, ch 5.
11
Feb—Cultural
Continuities. Thompson, ch 6.
14
Feb—Writing Workshop
I: Beginning the Research Paper.
16 Feb—The
Russian Empire
in the Eighteenth Century.
Thompson ch 7.
18 Feb—The
Era of the
French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars: Lithuania,
Poland,
and Other Conquests. Topic
Proposal due for paper no. 1,
via by email by 5:00 pm.
21 Feb—From
Alexander to
Nicholas I. Thompson ch 8.
Also, please go carefully through
the website by Alexander Boguslawski,
"Russian
Lubok" (Rollins College)
http://www.rollins.edu/Foreign_Lang/Russian/Lubok/lubok.html
23
Feb—Russian Society in
the Wake of Catherine and Alexander. Read the Wikipedia entry for Ivan
Turgenev
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Turgenev
AND
read
three
short stories by Turgenev, all from the collection translated as Sketches
from
a
Hunter's Album,
or A Sportsman's Sketches:
"Khor and
Kalinych" (or "Hor and
Kalinitch") (in I)
"Yermolai and the
Millter's Wife" (in I)
"Tchertop-Hanov and
Nedopyuskin" (or "Chertopkhanov and Nedopyushkin")
(in
II)
(Get Sketches here, as A Sportsman's
Sketches, I. and II.)
A
Sportsman's
Sketches
I
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/8597
A
Sportsman's
Sketches
II http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/8744
25 Feb—Russia
vs the
Empires: Turkey and Britain.
Before class, look thoroughly at the website
"Beyond the Pale: Jews in the
Russian Empire":
http://www.friends-partners.org/partners/beyond-the-pale/english/28.html
28 Feb—Map
Quiz no. 1.
Alexander II and the Era of Reform. Thompson
ch
9.
2
Mar—More on the Great Reforms.
4 Mar—Russia
and the Approach to World War I. Thompson ch
10.
7 Mar—Nationalism,
Empire, and Industrialization. For
this class, be ready for the quiz over all of Moss. (Part One only)
9 Mar—No
Class.
11 Mar—No
Class.
Paper
No. 1 due via email, by Friday, March 11, at 2:00PM.
Spring
Break
21 Mar—The
Revolution of
1905. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Lenin
Also,
carefully
look
at the photos and read all the text of "The
Prokudin-Gorskii Photographic Record Recreated":
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/
23 Mar—Midterm
Exam.
25 Mar—World
War I: Outbreak and Eastern Front. Read Thompson,
ch 11.
Also read:
http://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/The_Russian_Orange_Book
http://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Russian_Memorandum_of_Advice_to_Serbia
http://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/The_Willy-Nicky_Telegrams
28
Mar—The
Bolsheviks,
1903-1921. Readings:
From Sergei Eisenstein's
Battleship Potempkin, watch at least the first thirty minutes of: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1630669376406423668&q=The+Battleship+Potemkin&total=104&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0
ALSO: Browse
heavily
in Professor Bryan Caplan's excellent virtual
"Museum of Commmunism"
http://www.gmu.edu/departments/economics/bcaplan/museum/musframe.htm
30 Mar—Writing Workshop
II. For this day,
please look at the internet photo exhibit
on
AlexanderPalace.org, this one taken from the work of American
eyewitness,
Donald C. Thompson. The book from
which the photos and commentary is taken is called Blood Stained
Russia. Be
sure
to
read the commentary as well as studying the photos.
There will be a quiz on this book.
http://www.alexanderpalace.org/thompson/
1
Apr—Stalin
and the
Great Experiment. Look
carefully at the commentary and images in an
electronic exhibit from the Smith College Museum of Art, "Godless
Communists." I will be giving out a CD which you can keep. The
introduction
is here, with links above to "from the curator" and
"background" (this one with five subheadings). Please
peruse
all of this material
4 Apr—International
Contexts: Comintern, Party,
Fascism, Depression, and More. See the
Wikipedia articles on Trotsky
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Trotsky
(concentrate on the latter part of the article--the post 1924 material)
and
on
Willi
Münzenberg:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willi_Münzenberg
6
Apr—Stalin
Triumpans.
The Great Purges, Ethnic Cleansing, and
the Holomodor. Read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor
and an
annotated
bibliography by the great University of Hawaii Political Scientist, R.
J.
Rummel:
http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/CHARNY.CHAP.HTM, Democide in Totalitarian States: Mortacracies and Megamurderers.
8 Apr—International
Contexts: Poland, the Baltic
Republics, and the Coming of World War II. Look carefully over these
Stalin-era posters, and be sure to read the accompanying text:
http://www.iisg.nl/exhibitions/chairman/sovintro.php
As you do so, ask yourself what kind of information we can glean from such sources.
Topic Proposal due for paper no. 2, via by email by 5:00 pm.
11 Apr—The
Great Patriotic
War I. Map Quiz
No. 2 will also be on
this day, the 13th.
13 Apr—The
Great Patriotic
War: II. Read Tooley paper on ethnic
cleansing in and around Poland:
"The
Human Costs of the Matchstick Solution." Also,
look
through the paintings and
read the commentary of a Russian website, "Soviet Paintings of World
War
II"
http://www.allworldwars.com/Soviet%20War%20Paintings.html (please read critically
here).
Map Quiz
No. 2 will also be on
this day, the 13th.
18 Apr—Occupation and the
Creation of the Soviet Bloc. See
the Wikipedia articles on:
the VENONA
Project
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venona_project
Agnes Smedley
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes_Smedley
Kim Philby http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Philby
Alger Hiss http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alger_Hiss
Klaus Fuchs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Fuchs
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_and_Ethel_Rosenberg
20
Apr—Khrushchev to
Brezhnev. For
class discussion, read about Vasily Mitrokhin's internal KGB report on
Soviet
operations in Afghanistan between 1978 and 1983:
http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=news.item&news_id=6629
Also,
read the Wikipedia entry for
Brezhnev http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brezhnev
22 Apr—No
Class.
25 Apr—No
Class.
27
Apr—The Unthinkable: Thompson, ch. 13 and
14 and the
Wikipedia entries on:
Andropov
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Andropov
the Soviet War in
Afghanistan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_war_in_Afghanistan
29 Apr—The
Fall of the
Soviet Empire. Also,
for
class discussion, read
Gorbachev http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorbachev
and
the brief piece from the
Hoover Institute Archives:
http://www.hoover.org/publications/digest/3523571.html
Paper
No.
2 due via email by 5:00pm.
2
May—Post-Soviet
Russia: 1991-2000. Thompson
ch
15.
4 May—Putin
and a (Sort
Of) New Russia. Thompson ch 16.
6 May—In the
New Age of Terror
and Heroism.
9 May—Review
Day. No Class.