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Key Course Documents<\/strong><\/p>\n

Syllabus<\/a><\/p>\n

Book review assignment<\/a><\/p>\n

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Primary Sources and Other Readings<\/strong><\/p>\n

Students are responsible for uploading\/posting their materials for the class in which they are presenting 24 hours prior (at the latest).<\/p>\n

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September 11 – Alayna and Fedor (Theodore Weeks, Nation and State in Late Imperial Russia<\/em> only)<\/p>\n

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September 18 – Russian Revolutions 101<\/p>\n

Boris Kolonitskii, \u201c\u2019Democracy\u2019 in the Political Consciousness of the February Revolution, Slavic Review<\/i> 57, no. 1 (Spring 1998): 95-106.<\/a>
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Maps, images, tables, Lenin’s 1917 decrees<\/a><\/p>\n

September 25 – Amal and Kate (Supplementary materials for Peter Holquist, Making War, Forging Revolution<\/em>)<\/p>\n

Bolsheviks Take Charge in Cossack Villages (1918-1920)<\/span><\/p>\n

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An anti-Soviet poster that shows Bolshevik soldiers looting a Cossack farm.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Source:\u00a0Hoover Political Poster Database \u2014 <\/em>2007.<\/small><\/p>\n

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Petrograd Telegraph Agency, Agrarian Disturbances —\u00a0Fall 1917<\/a><\/p>\n

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Original source: A. L. Popov, Oktiabrskii perevorot: fakty i dokumenty (Petrograd, 1918), pp. 81-83.
\nSource:\u00a0James Bunyan and H.H. Fisher, ed., Bolshevik Revolution, 1917-1918; Documents and Materials (Stanford: Stanford University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1934), pp. 31-33.<\/small><\/p>\n

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The Don Cossack Host<\/a><\/p>\n

Source:\u00a0http:\/\/www.marxists.org\/archive\/trotsky\/1918\/military\/ch35.htm#bcoss<\/small><\/p>\n

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Aleksandr Blok\u2019s Twelve<\/a>
\nSource:\u00a0http:\/\/russiasgreatwar.org<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n

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Cossacks<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Cossacks\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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October 2 – Research discussion<\/p>\n

Simon Rabinovitch\u2019s Guide to Getting Your Research Rolling<\/a><\/p>\n

Simon Rabinovitch\u2019s Student Writing Guide<\/a><\/p>\n

Boston University History Department Writing Guide<\/a><\/p>\n

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October 9 – Oscar and Nikki (Supplementary materials for Frederick Corney, Telling October<\/em>)<\/p>\n

1)Lenin\u2019s 1902 Pamphlet What is to be done<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

2) “The Twelve” by Alexander Blok<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

3)John Reed, “Ten Days That Shook the World” (Chapter 2: The coming Storm)<\/em><\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

4) Eisenstein’s Strike <\/i>(film) \u00a01925 (Opening)<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

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Strike (1925) Poster<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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5) Eisenstein’s October (film) 1927<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

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\"October<\/a><\/b>
October (1927) Poster<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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6) Menchivik Newspaper Rabochai Gazeta “The Bolsheviks are anarchists” <\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>http:\/\/danwymanbooks.com\/images\/RUS-11-28A.jpg<\/a>
\n7) Lenin’s “Left Wing Communism, an Infantile Disorder” Speech- Comintern July 1920<\/strong><\/p>\n

<<\/strong>http:\/\/www.isj.org.uk\/?id=886><\/a><\/p>\n


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October 16 – Griffin and Jenna (Supplementary materials for Sheila Fitzpatrick, The Cultural Front<\/em>)<\/p>\n

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"Cadres Decide Everything"<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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1) Promotional video for education for women (click on The Literary Spartakiad)<\/strong><\/div>\n

http:\/\/soviethistory.org\/bigScreenVideo.php?SubjectID=1929byt&Year=1929&navi=byYear<\/a><\/p>\n

2) Video of Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk <\/em>(1934)<\/strong><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Gyq59-dJ1Io<\/a>
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3) Beethoven Symphony No. 9<\/strong> (to contrast with Lady Macbeth)<\/em><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=t3217H8JppI<\/a><\/p>\n

4) Leon Trotsky: Family Relations Under the Bolsheviks<\/strong> (See section on marriage and sex)<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.marxists.org\/archive\/trotsky\/1932\/xx\/family.htm<\/a><\/p>\n

5) Evaluation of Soviet Education by W. M. Chamberlain (1929)<\/strong><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.marxists.org\/archive\/chamberlin-william\/1929\/soviet-russia\/ch12.htm<\/a>
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October 23 – (Supplementary materials Katerina Clark,\u00a0Petersburg<\/em>)<\/p>\n

Summaries for the operas The Love of Three Oranges and Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District<\/a><\/p>\n

Battleship Potemkin<\/a><\/p>\n

October 30 – Katherine and Karen (Supplementary materials for Isaac Babel, Red Cavalry<\/em>)<\/p>\n

Anti-Polish Propaganda Poster<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"File:Polish-soviet<\/p>\n

“This is what will come of the Polish scheme.” (Translation)<\/em><\/p>\n

Monument<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Monument to the 1st Cavalry Army (Red Army) in Ukraine (Lviv, Oblast)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“We Are the Red Cavalry” (“\u041c\u044b \u043a\u0440\u0430\u0441\u043d\u0430\u044f \u043a\u0430\u0432\u0430\u043b\u0435\u0440\u0438\u044f”), by The Red Army Choir<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-NfB3pMhSdo<\/a><\/p>\n

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November 6 – Agatha and Pam (Supplementary materials for Richard Stites, Revolutionary Dreams<\/em>)<\/p>\n

Collection of Revolutionary Dreams Primary Docs<\/a>: photos, brief excerpts, posters.<\/p>\n

For further images of the various housing competitions, see this Flickr page<\/a>. These architectural drawings illustrate the new notions of futurism and utopianism that characterize the period.<\/p>\n

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November 13 – Mark and Jeff (Supplementary materials for Francine Hirsch, Empire of Nations<\/em>)<\/p>\n

Empire of Nations Handout<\/a><\/p>\n

November 20 – Taryn and Emma (Supplementary materials for Stephen Kotkin, Magnetic Mountain<\/em>)<\/p>\n

Magnetic Mountain Handout<\/a><\/p>\n

December 4 – Kara and Nick (Supplementary materials for Michael David-Fox, Showcasing the Great Experiment<\/em>)<\/p>\n

Showcasing the Great Experiment Handout<\/a><\/p>\n

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