COURSE NUMBER: | HIST 382 | |||||||||||||||
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COURSE TITLE: | Stalinism: Terror, Progress and Belief | |||||||||||||||
NAME OF INSTRUCTOR: | Dr. Mark Sandle | |||||||||||||||
CREDIT WEIGHT AND WEEKLY TIME DISTRIBUTION: | credits 3(hrs lect 3 - hrs sem 0 - hrs lab 0) | |||||||||||||||
COURSE DESCRIPTION: | This course examines the contours of the Stalinist
period of modern Russian history. It provides a comprehensive and
detailed appraisal of the system that emerged in the USSR in the 1930s
until the year of Stalin's death in 1953. This course includes
sustained engagement with the historiography of Stalinism, and uses a
variety of different sources - texts, newspapers, memoirs, posters,
films, literature, music - to explore different aspects of the
Stalinist system in order to understand what Stalinism was, how it
emerged and how it worked in practice. It also appraises how Stalinism
has been remembered East and West, and examines the treatment of Stalin
in recent biographies. Prerequisites: HIST 204 |
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REQUIRED TEXTS: | P. Boobyer, The Stalin Era (Routledge) | |||||||||||||||
COURSE OBJECTIVES: | By the end of this course students will:
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MARK DISTRIBUTION IN PERCENT: |
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COURSE SCHEDULE: | Bloc One: Introduction: Personality, Ideology and
Context:
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Required texts, assignments, and grade distributions
may vary
from one offering of this course to the next. Please consult
the course instructor for up to date details.
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