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Apr 19, 2024
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H381 Revolutionary and Post-Revolutionary Russia3 credit(s) The Soviet Union disintegrated into 15 new states, the largest of which is Russia, in 1991. This event was widely heralded in the West as a turn to democratic capitalism; a decade later this was no longer so clear. This course lays the basis for an informed understanding of today’s Russia by introducing its history in this century. The course highlights the revolutionary period including the Bolshevik seizure of power and Stalin’s “second revolution,” and also the recent past, including the periods dominated by Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin. In addition to works by historians, the course uses a variety of primary sources, including speeches, manifestos, eyewitness accounts, novels, and a series of influential Soviet films.
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