Schedule

Class Schedule

Printable Schedule

Week Topic Common Reading – Print Sources
Week 1
T 8/25 Networked Course Intro
Th 8/27 The Pre-Revolutionary Heritage Fitzpatrick 1-39; RR 1-11, 40-53, 128-133 (Intro, Bathing, Buck Morss, Cooking)

 

  Sun. 10 pm: Post 1(everyone)
Week 2
T 9/1 The Avant-Garde RR 13-15
Th 9/3
  Sun. 10 pm: Post 2 (everyone)
Week 3  
T 9/8 Questions of Soviet History Fitzpatrick 40-171
Th 9/10
Week 4
T 9/15 Bolshevik Visions / Revolutionary Cinema Entertainment vs. Enlightenment
Th 9/17 MC 3-120; RR 303-347
  Sun. 10 pm: Post 3 (everyone)
Week 5
T 9/22 New Men and Women RR 351-412
Th 9/24 Questions Of Soviet History / Digital Artifact Assessment
Week 6
T 9/29 Cultural Revolution / War on Backwardness MC 120-214 (Cultural Revolution); RR 413-440
Th 10/1
F 10/2                     Drop Day
  Sun. 10 pm: Post 4
Week 7
Mon. 10 pm: Comment (everyone)
T 10/6 Joyful Songs / Heroes & Heroines MC 215-286 (High Stalinism);
Th 10/8
  Sun. 10 pm: Post 5
Week 8
Mon. 10 pm: Comment (everyone)
T 10/13 Lady MacBeth / Purges MC 287-330 (Purges); RR 441-486
Th 10/15
  Sun. 10 pm: Post 6
Week 9
Mon. 10 pm: Comment (everyone)
T 10/20 Defending the Motherland MC 333-407 (Russia at War); RR 487-532 (The War Years)
Th 10/22
  Sun. 10 pm: Post 7
Week 10
Mon. 10 pm: Comment (everyone)
T 10/27 Holy War to Cold War: Finding the Big Deal MC 411-489 (Postwar Era)
Th 10/29
  Sun. 10 pm: Post 8
Week 11
Mon. 10 pm: Comment (everyone)
T 11/3 Space Age and the Thaw RR 533-568 (The Thaw)
Th 11/5
  Sun. 10 pm: Post 9
Week 12  
Mon. 10 pm: Comment (everyone)
T 11/10 Soviet Baby Boomers RR 615-665 (Life Under Advanced Socialism)
Th 11/ 12
  Sun. 10 pm: Post 10
Week 13
Mon. 10 pm: Comment (everyone)
T 11/17 Everything Was Forever…. RR 663-696 (Things Fall Apart)
Th 11/19 2nd MT Assessment
Thanksgiving
Week 14
T 12/1 Present meets Past in the Caucasus RR 281-302 (Derlugian, Bazorkin)
Th 12/3
  Sun. 10 pm: Post 11
Week 15
Mon. 10 pm: Comment (everyone)
T 12/8 Brave New Worlds / Final self-assessment