HIST 7340X

About this course

30 hours plus conference; 3 credits Russian and Soviet history from the mid-nineteenth through late twentieth centuries. Emphasis on social and political upheaval during the so-called ?era of great reforms? and its aftermath; ethnicity, race, and empire; revolutionaries and revolutions; Bolshevism, Leninism, and Stalinism; everyday Soviet life; ideology and its social meanings; cold war; de-Stalinization; ?stagnation;? perestroika, and the demise of the USSR.