Russia and Eurasia: Empires and Enduring Legacies
Fall, Winter, Spring, 2008-2009
Program Schedule
Week 1 – Wars, Revolutions, and Revolutionaries |
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| Tues | 3/30 | Lecture: War, Revolutions, and Explaining Ali and Nino |
| 3/30 | Seminar: The State and Revolution Hosking, chapter 10 (pp. 386-426) |
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| Thu | 4/2 | Film and Discussion: Agoniia (Rasputin) 143 min |
| Fri | 4/3 | Lecture: The First Two Decades: "Silver Age" Poetry & Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring" (video) |
| 4/3 | Seminar: Ali and Nino | |
Week 2 –The Crucible of Utopia |
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| Tues | 4/7 | Lecture: Literature and Poster Art of the 1920s: Before the Curtain Fell |
| 4/7 | Seminar: We | |
| Thur | 4/9 | Film and Discussion: Reds (195 min.) |
| Fri | 4/10 | Lecture: Revolutions and Civil War |
| 4/10 | Seminar: “Stalin: The Man and the Communist,” in Daniels, pp. 13-27 “The Baseline: Revolution and the NEP,” in Daniels, pp. 28-39 “The Formation of Stalinism,” in Daniels, pp. 40-58 Hosking: pp. 427-449 DUE: Prospectus and Bibliography |
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| Week 3 – NEP: “Calm” before the Storm | ||
| Tues | 4/14 | Lecture: From Lenin to Stalin; 1921-28 |
| 4/14 | Seminar: Cement | |
| Thur | 4/16 | Film: Commissar (105 min.) |
| Fri | 4/17 | Lecture: Socialist Realism: The New Creed |
| 4/17 | Seminar: The Trial Begins and On Socialist Realism(one book) “Industrialization and Class War,” in Daniels, pp. 67-79 “Revolution and the Family,” in Daniels, pp. 160-174 |
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Week 4 – Into the Darkness: the USSR’s Stalin Era |
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| Tues | 4/21 | Lecture: Stalin, Collectivization, and the Purges |
| 4/21 | Seminar: The Master and Margarita, Book 1 “The New Leadership Generation,” in Daniels, pp. 80-9 Hosking, pp. 449-469 |
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| Thur | 4/23 | Film & Discussion: Burnt by the Sun (134 min.) |
| 4/23 | SPECIAL CHERNOBYL SYMPOSIUM & COMMEMORATION (required) 3:00 – 8:00, TESC Campus |
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| Fri | 4/24 | Lecture: Siberia and the Gulag (Elena Sonina and Irina Sharkova) |
| 4/24 | Seminar: The Master and Margarita, Book II “The Cult of Personality,” in Daniels, pp. 196-208 “A New Peter the Great,” in Daniels, pp. 219-233 DUE: Research Paper Outline |
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Week 5 – Stalin’s pre-War Wagers |
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| Tues | 4/28 | Lecture: Towards the Second World War; documentary film: The War of the Century |
| 4/28 | Seminar: Behind the Urals Hosking, pp. 470-506 |
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| Thur | 4/30 | Film & Discussion: Come and See (137 min.) |
| Fri | 5/1 | Lecture: Who are we?: The Stalin Cult of Personality in Literature and Folklore and Wartime Literature's Evocation of Mother Russia |
| 5/1 | Seminar: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich | |
Week 6 – The USSR beyond Stalin |
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| Tues | 5/5 | Lecture: De-Stalinization and the Khrushchev Reforms |
| 5/5 | Seminar: A Woman in Amber; Guest Speaker, Ainara Wilder Hosking, pp. 509-540 |
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| Thur | 5/7 | Film & Discussion: documentary, Gulag 113; and film, The Cuckoo (103 min.) |
| Fri | 5/8 | Lecture: Prokofiev and Shostakovich: Song of the Revolution and Beyond |
| 5/8 | Seminar: Farewell to Matyora | |
Week 7 – Soviet “Stagnation” |
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| Tues | 5/12 | Lecture: From Brezhnev to Gorbachev |
| 5/12 | Seminar: The Day Lasts More than a Hundred Years Hosking, pp. 541-568 |
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| Thur | 5/14 | Film & Discussion: Prisoner of the Mountains (99 min.) |
| Fri | 5/15 | Lecture: Who are we?: From the Bards of the 70s to the Rebirth of Popular Interest in Russian Folklore |
| 5/15 | Seminar: A Week Like Any Other (all essays) DUE: 7-10 pp. draft of Research Paper |
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Week 8 – Russia the Phoenix: The End of Empire and Beyond |
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| Tues | 5/19 | Lecture: Life and Living in the late USSR and post-Soviet Russia (Elena Sonina) |
| 5/19 | Seminar: Omon Ra Hosking, chapter 15 (pp. 569-613) |
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| Thur | 5/21 | Film & Discussion: documentaries – Harvest of Despair (55 min.); The Singing Revolution (97 min.) |
| Fri | 5/22 | Lecture: TBA (2 1 hr lectures) |
| 5/22 | Seminar: The Harvest of Sorrow (selected chapters) | |
Week 9 – Prep Week |
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| Tues | 5/26 | PrepTime: Finish research projects and prepare for final presentations. (Russian language class and Cold War Workshop continue through end of term at usual times.) |
| Thur | 5/28 | Film & Discussion: The Island (112 min.) |
| Fri | 5/29 | Lecture: no lecture. Use as prep time for presentation. Seminar: no seminar. Use as prep time for presentation. DUE by 4:00 PM: |
Week 10 – Presenting Russia and the Empire |
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| Tues | 6/2 | Group presentations (afternoon location Sem 2, D1107) |
| Thur | 6/4 | Group presentations |
| Fri | 6/5 | Group presentations and course wrap-up |
Week 11 – Evaluation Week (June 8-12) — Final Evaluation Conferences |
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Individual evaluation dates to be arranged Please Note: one student self-evaluation and one evaluation of your spring seminar faculty are required in order to receive credit DUE: |
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