The first half of Russia's twentieth century was violent—four revolutions (1905, February and October 1917, and the Stalin Revolution of 1929 to 1932), two World Wars, an extremely destructive Civil War (1918 to 1921–22 and in some regions to 1931), and a whole range of smaller military conflicts. This atmosphere of violence and flux was reinforced by periodic waves of state terror against a variety of groups (from peasants to bureaucrats, and from the intelligentsia to jazz fans). This unit explores the society which emerged in this cauldron of upheaval and the transformations of this social system in the less tumultuous periods between Stalin's death in 1953 and the 1980s. The unit... -- Course Website
Instructor: Professor Mark Edele
Prerequisites: a Level 2 History unit
