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Common Reading – Print Sources |
| Week 1 |
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| T 8/25 |
Networked Course Intro |
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| Th 8/27 |
The Pre-Revolutionary Heritage |
Fitzpatrick 1-39; RR 1-11, 40-53, 128-133 (Intro, Bathing, Buck Morss, Cooking)
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Sun. 10 pm: Post 1(everyone) |
| Week 2 |
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| T 9/1 |
The Avant-Garde |
RR 13-15 |
| Th 9/3 |
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Sun. 10 pm: Post 2 (everyone) |
| Week 3 |
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| T 9/8 |
Questions of Soviet History |
Fitzpatrick 40-171 |
| Th 9/10 |
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| Week 4 |
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| T 9/15 |
Bolshevik Visions / Revolutionary Cinema |
Entertainment vs. Enlightenment |
| Th 9/17 |
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MC 3-120; RR 303-347 |
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Sun. 10 pm: Post 3 (everyone) |
| Week 5 |
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| T 9/22 |
New Men and Women |
RR 351-412 |
| Th 9/24 |
Questions Of Soviet History / Digital Artifact Assessment |
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| Week 6 |
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| T 9/29 |
Cultural Revolution / War on Backwardness |
MC 120-214 (Cultural Revolution); RR 413-440 |
| Th 10/1 |
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| F 10/2 Drop Day |
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Sun. 10 pm: Post 4 |
| Week 7 |
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Mon. 10 pm: Comment (everyone) |
| T 10/6 |
Joyful Songs / Heroes & Heroines |
MC 215-286 (High Stalinism); |
| Th 10/8 |
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Sun. 10 pm: Post 5 |
| Week 8 |
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Mon. 10 pm: Comment (everyone) |
| T 10/13 |
Lady MacBeth / Purges |
MC 287-330 (Purges); RR 441-486 |
| Th 10/15 |
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Sun. 10 pm: Post 6 |
| Week 9 |
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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 |
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Sun. 10 pm: Post 7 |
| Week 10 |
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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 |
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Sun. 10 pm: Post 8 |
| Week 11 |
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Mon. 10 pm: Comment (everyone) |
| T 11/3 |
Space Age and the Thaw |
RR 533-568 (The Thaw) |
| Th 11/5 |
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Sun. 10 pm: Post 9 |
| Week 12 |
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Mon. 10 pm: Comment (everyone) |
| T 11/10 |
Soviet Baby Boomers |
RR 615-665 (Life Under Advanced Socialism) |
| Th 11/ 12 |
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Sun. 10 pm: Post 10 |
| Week 13 |
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Mon. 10 pm: Comment (everyone) |
| T 11/17 |
Everything Was Forever…. |
RR 663-696 (Things Fall Apart) |
| Th 11/19 |
2nd MT Assessment |
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| Thanksgiving |
| Week 14 |
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| T 12/1 |
Present meets Past in the Caucasus |
RR 281-302 (Derlugian, Bazorkin) |
| Th 12/3 |
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Sun. 10 pm: Post 11 |
| Week 15 |
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Mon. 10 pm: Comment (everyone) |
| T 12/8 |
Brave New Worlds / Final self-assessment |
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