| 1 | Introduction to the Course | | | 2 | The Setting: Tsarism | Fitzpatrick, Sheila. The Russian Revolution. Pp. 15-23, and 31-39.
Workers and War - "Father Gapon's Petition." Pp. 96-99.
- "Memorandum to Nicholas II." Pp. 476-478.
- Trotsky, Leon. "Peculiarities of Russia Development." The Russian Revolution. Pp. 1-10.
The Peasantry - Frank. "Popular Justice." Pp. 239-265.
- Stolypin, Peter. "We Need a Great Russia." Pp. 457-464 (as marked).
The National Question - Pipes, Richard. "The National Problem in Russia." The Formation of the Soviet Union. Pp. 1-8.
| | 3 | The Revolutionary Tradition | Fitzpatrick, Sheila. Pp. 23-31.
Revolutionary Theory I: General - Marx, Karl, and Friedrich Engels. The Communist Manifesto. Pp. 13-33.
- Daniels: pp. 23-25 (Trotsky on "Permanent Revolution").
Revolutionary Theory II: Bolsheviks vs. Mensheviks - Daniels: pp. 6-17 (Lenin’s Theory of the Party, Lenin on the Party Split, Marxist Reactions to Lenin).
- Axelrod, Pavel. "The Unification of Russian Social Democracy and Its Tasks." Pp. 48-52.
The National Question - Sakwa: 1.17 ("The Right of Nations to Self-Determination").
| | 4 | The Revolutions of 1917 | Fitzpatrick, Sheila. Pp. 40-67.
Revolution and War - Sakwa: 2.1-2.3 (Order No. 1, April Theses, Lenin on the Imperialist War).
The Grain Crisis - Documents from The Provisional Government: 1917.
Dual Power - Suny: pp. 35-38 (A. F. Kerenskii's Statement...., Iraklii Tsersteli's Speech...).
- Daniels: pp. 44-47 (Lenin on the Dual Power).
- Suny: pp. 41-43 (Tsereteli and Lenin's Exchange of Words....).
- Daniels: pp. 57-59 (The Military-Revolutionary Committee).
On Seizing Power - Sakwa: 2.9-2.11, and 2.13 (Lenin: For, Kamenev and Zinoviev: Against).
- Suny: pp. 45-47 (Letter to Central Committee....).
Victory - Sakwa: 2.16-2.18, and 2.23 (Victory Address, Izvestiya's Condemnation, Decrees on Peace and Land, and Bogdanov's Criticism).
Revolution from Below - Suny: pp. 43-45 (Report to Commissar).
- Steve A. Smith. "Petrograd in 1917: The View From Below." Pp. 63-64.
| | 5 | The Civil War | Fitzpatrick, Sheila. Pp. 68-92.
Eliminating Political Opposition - Suny: pp. 67-73 (Dissolution of the Constituent Assembly).
Withdrawing from War Running a State, Fighting a War - Figes, Orlando. Pp. 1-6, 246-249, and 271-273.
- Tucker, Robert C. Stalin as Revolutionary. Pp. 181-182.
- Lincoln, W. Bruce. Red Victory. Pp. 476-478.
- Trotsky, Leon. "The Train." My Life. Pp. 411-422.
- Sakwa: 2.11 (review), 3.1, 3.8, 3.10, and 3.18 (Secret Police, Red Army, State Capitalism, Terror).
Red Opposition - Suny: pp. 77-82 (Iulii Martov's Letter...).
- Sakwa: 3.9, 3.11-3.12, and 3.19 (Workers' Control, Left Communists, Democratic Centralists).
| | 6 | The Crisis of War Communism & the Shift to NEP | Fitzpatrick, Sheila. Pp. 93-106.
Avrich, Paul. "The Crisis of War Communism." Kronstadt 1921. Pp. 7-34.
The Opposition Suppressed - Sakwa: 3.22-3.25, and 3.27-3.28 (Party Reform, Workers' Opposition, Kronstadt, Bureaucratism, Ban on Factions, Trade Union Debate).
The Shift to NEP - Tucker, Robert C., ed. The Lenin Anthology. Pp. 511-517 (Importance of Gold Now and After...).
| | 7 | Defining Bolshevism | Fitzpatrick, Sheila. "The Bolsheviks' Dilemma: The Class Issue in Party Politics and Culture." The Cultural Front. Pp. 16-36.
Solts, A. A. "Communist Ethics." Pp. 42-54.
Wood, Elizabeth. The Baba and the Comrade. Pp. 123-26, 147-53, and 194-208.
Renewed Opposition and its Demise - Sakwa: 4.7-4.8, 4.18-4.20, and 4.22 (Declaration of the Twenty-Two, Workers' Truth, Declaration of the Forty-Six, the New Course, Stalin on Dictatorship).
- Suny: pp. 124-126 (Bukharin and Dzerzhinskii Disagree...., Letter from Nikolai Bukharin...., Letter from Dzerezhinskii).
The Lenin Cult - Suny: pp. 126-128 (Joseph Stalin, " The October Revolution...").
| | Film: Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks | | | 8 | The Politics and Economics of NEP | Fitzpatrick, Sheila. Pp. 106-119, and 124-129.
Nove, Alec. An Economic History of the USSR. Pp. 101-114. (Also review Wood, pp. 123-126.)
Monetary Reform - Maiakovskii, Vladimir. "Burzhui, Say Goodbye to Your Pleasant Money."
Lenin's Last Thoughts - Sakwa: 4.13, and 4.15-4.16 (Lenin's Last Testament, Socialism in Russia, Better Fewer, But Better).
The Party Opposition: The Left, United, and the Right - Daniels: pp. 144-147 (The Zinoviev-Kamenev Opposition).
- Daniels: pp. 151-153 (Bukharin on the United Opposition).
- Sakwa: 4.27 (Bukharin Warns against Stalin).
The Industrialization Debate: Stalin vs. Bukharin - Sakwa: 4.24-4.25 (Socialism in One Country, Primary Socialist Accumulation).
- Stalin. "On the Grain Crisis," and "Siberian Speech." Pp. 159-162, and 41-48 (as marked).
- Daniels: pp. 162-163, and 166-169 (Bukharin on Peasant Policy, Equilibrium).
The National Question - Suny: pp. 122-124 (The Question of Nationalism....).
| | 9 | The Great Break: Collectivization & Industrialization | Fitzpatrick, Sheila. Pp. 120-124, and 129-141.
Collectivization - Fainsod, Merle. "Collectivization: The Method." Pp. 95-106.
- Sakwa: 5.3-5.6 (Liquidation of Kulaks, Dizzy with Success, Bolshevik-Leninist Opposition).
Industrialization - Kotkin, Stephen. "Peopling a Shock Construction Site." Magnetic Mountain. Pp. 72-82, and 86-103 (as marked).
- Stalin's Letters to Molotov. Pp. 168-169, 175, 200-201, 209, and 218-221.
- Sakwa: 5.7-5.8, 5.16 (Stalin on Industrialization, Against Wage Equality, Forward, Oh Time!).
| | 10 | The New Economy | Khomiakov-Andreev, Gennady. Bitter Waters. Pp. 185-188, 4-13, 22-25, 39-55, 69-85, and 105-122. | | 11 | Purge and Terror | Fitzpatrick, Sheila. Pp. 163-170.
Tucker, Robert C. Stalin in Power. Pp. 441-478.
"Last Plea of the Accused Bukharin." The Great Purge Trial. Pp. 327-328, and 656-668 (as marked).
Sakwa: 5.17-5.19, 5.23-5.24, 5.30, and 5.32 (Ryutin Group, Congress of Victors, Kirov Murder, Purge Plenum, Show Trials, Criticisms). | | 12 | World War II | Barber, John. The Soviet Home Front. Pp. 19-44, and 59-67.
Sakwa: 6.1-6.5, 6.7-6.9, 6.11-6.26, 6.28, 6.30-6.32, and 6.39 (Soviet-Nazi Pact, War, Appeals to Patriotism, Mass Deportations, Victory Toast).
Khomiakov-Andreev, Gennady. Pp. 146-151, and 163-171. | | 13 | The Origins of the Cold War | Suny: pp. 273-285 ("The Premises of Policy." From Stalin and the Bomb).
Ending World War II The Rise of Rivalry - Sakwa: 7.2-7.5, and 7.13 (Two Camps, Long Telegram, Iron Curtain, Mr. X).
- "The Novikov Telegram." Pp. 3, 8, and 12-16.
Internal Consolidation - Sakwa: 7.8, and 7.14 (Attack on Cosmopolitanism, Preserving Peace).
Khrushchev and Kennedy - Zubok, Vladislav, and Constantine Pleshakov. Inside the Kremlin's Cold War. Pp. 182-188, and 236-74.
| | Film: Cranes are Flying | | | 14 | The Khrushchev Years: Thaw and Social Change | Zubok, Vladislav, and Constantine Pleshakov. Inside the Kremlin’s Cold War. Pp. 175-182.
Agrarian and Political Reform - Medvedev, Roy, and Zhores Medvedev. Khrushchev. Pp. 30-45, 56-65, 94-101, and 117-122.
- Sakwa: 8.1-8.3, 8.4, 8.6, 8.10, and 8.12 (The New Course, Virgin Lands, Secret Speech, Annulling Deportations, 1961 Party Program).
Foreign Policy - Sakwa: 8.16-8.17 (Peaceful Coexistence, Imperialist Threat).
Opposition, Dissent, and Khrushchev's Fall Sakwa: 8.7, 8.15, and 8.19-8.21 (Anti-Party Group, Solzhenitsyn, Khrushchev's Ouster).
| | 15 | The Brezhnev Era: Politics and Economics | Colton, Timothy. "Brezhnev's Ambiguous Legacy." The Dilemma of Reform in the Soviet Union. Pp. 6-31.
Yeltsin, Boris. Against the Grain. Pp. 43-56, and 61-82.
The Brezhnevite System and Foreign Policy - Sakwa: 9.1-9.4 (1965 Reforms, Stagnation, Detente, Developed Socialism).
End of the Thaw and the Rise of Dissent - Sakwa: 9.17, 9.19 (Call for Reform, KGB Surveillance).
| | 16 | The Brezhnev Era: Social Change | Colton, Timothy. "What Ails the Soviet System?" The Dilemma of Reform in the Soviet Union. Pp. 32-67.
Society - Suny: pp. 360-379 (The "New Soviet Man" turns Pessimist, The Little Deal....).
The Andropov Years - Sakwa: 9.32-9.35 (Continuity, Flexibility, Ideology, Novosibirsk Report).
| | 17 | Gorbachev's Political Revolution | McFaul, Michael. "Gorbachev's Design fro Reforming..., The End of the Soviet Union." Russia's Unfinished Revolution; Political Change from Gorbachev to Putin. Pp. 33-86.
Economic Reform - Sakwa: 10.1-10.6 (Anti-Alcohol Campaign, Perestroika).
Political Reform - Sakwa: 10.8-10.18 (Seventieth Anniversary Speech, Nina Andreeva, Nineteenth Party Conference, Congress of People's Deputies, Abolition of the Party's Leading Role, New Political Thinking).
| | 18 | Nationalism | Hosking, Geoffrey. "The Flawed Melting Pot." The Awakening of the Soviet Union. Pp. 82-88.
The Baltics and Central Asia - Zaslavsky, Victor. "The Evolution of Separatism in Soviet Society Under Gorbachev." Pp. 71-79.
Georgia - Brook, Stephen. "Civil War or Ice-Cream." Claws of the Crab. Pp. 6, 8, 17, and 21-33.
Russia - Szporluk, Roman. "Dilemmas of Russian Nationalism." Pp. 441-462.
| | 19 | Collapse of the Soviet Union | McFaul: pp. 86-117 (The End of the Soviet Union).
Humphrey, Caroline. "'Icebergs,' Barter, and the Mafia in Provincial Russia." Pp. 8-13.
Sakwa: 10.20-10.22, 10.24-10.32, and 10.37 (Sovereign Russia, Union Treaty, Referendum, August Coup, Suspension of Communist Party, Gorbachev's Resignation). | | 20 | New Russia Emerges, 1991-1993 | Remnick, David. "The October Revolution." Resurrection. Pp. 37-83. | | 21 | From Yeltsin to Putin, 1993-2001 | Suny: pp. 564-573 (What Russia Teaches Us Now: How Weak States Threaten Freedom). | | 22 | Contemporary Russia | Pelevin, Victor. Homo Zapiens. |
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