Lecture and Seminar Programme
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 |