Seminar Questions and Reading

Autumn Term

1. What is Stalinism? (wk. 2)

2. ‘Socialism in one country’: The Soviet Union in the 1920’s (wk. 3)

3. Transforming Russia: the ‘Revolution from above’ (wk. 4)

4. Industrialisation and Economic Planning (wk. 5)

5. Looking East: Perceptions of the Soviet Union in Europe (wk. 7)

6. Stalinist Culture (wk. 8)

7. Society and Everyday Life (wk. 9)

8. The ‘Stalinist Self’ I (wk. 10)

Spring Term

9. The 'Stalinist Self'' II (wk. 11)

10. The 'Great Terror' (wk. 12)

11. The Imperial Dimension (wk. 13)

12 part 1 Communism vs. Fascism (wk. 14) first half of the seminar

12. part 2 Fellow-Travelling (wk. 14) second half of the seminar

13. Russian Nationalism and Soviet Patriotism (wk. 15)

14. The Great Patriotic War (wk 17)

15. Late Stalinism (wk. 18)

17. Stalinism after Stalin (wk. 20)