Week	Lecture and Seminar Topic
Autumn Term	1	Introduction: Russia in 1881
	2	Frameworks of Russian Identity
	3	Ideologies and Mass Movements
	4	1905 and its Aftermath
	5	War and Revolution
	6	Reading Week: No Classes!
	7	October
	8	Utopian Visions and Civil War
	9	The New Economic Policy
	10	The Great Breakthrough in Socialist Construction
Spring Term	1	Stalinism as a Civilisation?
	2	National Identity in the Soviet 'Empire'
	3	The Purges
	4	The Soviet Union at War
	5	Late Stalinism and the Birth of the Cold War
	6	Reading Week: No Classes!
	7	Khrushchev and Destalinization
	8	Cold War and The Relaunch of the Soviet Project
	9	Developed Socialism
	10	Gorbachev's Revolution
Summer Term	1	Russia in the 1990s: A Decade of Chaos?
	2	Putin's Russia
	3	Revision