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 Fellow-Travelling (wk. 14)

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

14. part 1 Communism vs. Fascism (wk. 16) first half of the seminar

15. The Great Patriotic War (wk 17)

16. Late Stalinism (wk. 18)

18. Stalinism after Stalin (wk. 20)