HIST 5850 Course Schedule & Reading List
August 17
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August 24
Service, vii-40
A Revolution of Their Own, vii-84
August 31
Service, 45-100
A Revolution of Their Own, 85-100
book review #1 due on Abraham Ascher, The Revolution of 1905: Russia in Disarray (vol. 1) or The Revolution of 1905: Authority Restored (vol. 2)
September 7—no assignments
September 14
Service, 101-165
A Revolution of Their Own, 101-131
book review #2 due on John Keep, The Russian Revolution: A Study in Mass Mobilization
September 21
Service, 169-253
A Revolution of Their Own, 132-174
September 28
Service, 254-290
A Revolution of Their Own, 175-228
book review #3 due on Vladimir Brovkin, Behind the Front Lines of the Civil War: Political Parties and Social Movements in Russia, 1918-1922
October 5
Service, 293-355
A Week Like Any Other, 1-68
October 12
Service, 356-393
A Week Like Any Other, 69-122
book review #4 due on Sarah Davies, Popular Opinion in Stalin’s Russia: Terror, Propaganda, and Dissent, 1934-1941
October 19
Service, 397-447
A Week Like Any Other, 123-188
October 26
Service, 448-484
A Week Like Any Other, 189-end
book review #5 due on Ludmilla Alexeyeva and Paul Goldberg, The Thaw Generation: Coming of Age in the post-Stalin Era
November 2
Service, 485-508
November 9
Service, 509-528 + book review #6 due on Karen Dawisha, Eastern Europe, Gorbachev and Reform: The Great Challenge
November 16
Service, 529-555
November 23
complete work on research paper
November 30
research paper due