History 481 Syllabus

Prof. Diane P. Koenker
Fall 2002
Mondays 3-5
446K Gregory Hall

Course Format

The course is designed to provide students with the opportunity to read and discuss key works on selected problems in the history of the Soviet Union. Readings are organized thematically, but within each theme, selections will include some classical treatments of the topic, current standard treatments of the topic, and other readings that are methodologically or interpretively innovative. The goal is to provide students in the seminar with an exposure to some of the most important problems and historiographies of the history of the USSR. A secondary goal is to provide students with the experience of writing scholarly papers in several different genres.

The course will consist of weekly discussions based on a set of common readings, supplemented by additional recommended readings. Common readings are indicated by an asterisk (*). All students are expected to complete both the common readings and some of the additional readings, and to participate actively in class discussion. Each week, one student will be responsible for preparing a set of discussion questions (provided the week before the class), and a ten-minute presentation of the week’s readings (common and recommended), focusing on the main issues and problems of the week’s theme: the goal of this presentation and the questions is to provoke the other students to engage in discussion of the key common themes introduced by the readings. That student will also write up these remarks in an 8-10 page paper, due the day of the discussion.

In addition, three more papers will be required. Two will be on the following two types of works: memoir or reportage, and novels. In the first paper, due October 18, you will write a scholarly introduction, of a minimum of ten pages, to one book from the chosen genre. In the second paper, due December 13, you will write a review essay on 2 or 3 works of the second genre, with a maximum of twenty pages. In both cases, you are writing for a historical audience: your task is to treat the memoirs, reportage, or novels as historical sources and historical work, focusing on the ways in which the work(s) help to understand the period or problem they concern. (It is understood that each of these essays will require further reading in scholarly treatments of the topic.) The third paper, due November 25, will be a 500-700 word scholarly book review of a brand-new work in Soviet history, of your choice. A bibliography of appropriate works will be circulated.

All books designated as common readings will be placed on reserve in the History Library, as will some items from the recommended list. All or most of the articles will be available only on electronic reserve. You may also wish to purchase some or more of the books through on-line booksellers or used book sellers. I recommend the following sources for used books: www.powells.com; www.bookfinder.com; www.abe.com; www.bibliofind.com. Other suggestions are welcome.

Course Outline

Week 1 (August 28): Mobilization: Key Historiography, New Approaches

"Re-vision--the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction--is for women more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival."
-Adrienne Rich (1979)

"How are we to proceed without Theory?... only show me the Theory and I will be at the barricades."
-Aleksei Antedilluvianovich Prelapsarianov, the Oldest Living Bolshevik

"I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact."
-Sir Winston Spencer Churchill (1898)

"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."
-L. P. Hartley, The Go-Between

*Lynne Viola, "The Cold War in American Soviet Historiography and the End of the Soviet Union," Russian Review 61:1 (January 2002): 25-34.

Stephen Kotkin, "1991 and the Russian Revolution: Sources, Conceptual Categories, Analytical Frameworks," Journal of Modern History, vol. 70, no. 2 (June 1998), 384-425.
Abbott Gleason, "The October Revolution: Invention and Reinvention, Ad Infinitum," Journal of Modern History, vol. 70, no. 2 (June 1998), 426-430.
S.A. Smith, "Writing the History of the Russian Revolution after the Fall of Communism," Europe-Asia Studies, 46:4 (1994).
Ronald Grigor Suny, "Toward a Social History of the October Revolution," American Historical Review, 88:1 (February 1983), 31-53.

Week 2 (September 9): 1917: Founding Myths

*Leon Trotsky, History of the Russian Revolution (1935), ch. 8: "Who Led the February Revolution?"
*Robert V. Daniels, Red October (1967), chap. 11.
*Alexander Rabinowitch, The Bolsheviks Come to Power (1976), chaps. 15-16.
*Diane P. Koenker and William G. Rosenberg, Strikes and Revolution in Russia, 1917 (1989), chap. 2 and conclusion.
*Orlando Figes and Boris Kolonitskii, Interpreting the Russian Revolution: The Languages and Symbols of 1917 (1999), ch. 2.
*Frederick Corney, "Rethinking a Great Event: The October Revolution as Memory Project," Social Science History, 22:4 (Winter 1998), 389-411.

V.I. Lenin, The State and Revolution (1917)
William Chamberlin, The Russian Revolution, vol. 1 (1935), chaps. 4, 5, 8, 9, 12, 14.
William G. Rosenberg, Liberals in the Russian Revolution (1974), part 1.
Allan Wildman, The End of the Russian Imperial Army (1980-87), 2 vols.
Donald Raleigh, Revolution on the Volga (1986).
S. A. Smith, Red Petrograd: Revolution in the Factories (1983).
Diane Koenker, Moscow Workers and the 1917 Revolution (1981), intro., chaps. 3, 6, 9.
Edward Action, William Rosenberg, and Vladimir Cherniaev, eds., Critical Companion to the Russian Revolution (1997).
Mark D. Steinberg, Voices of Revolution, 1917 (2001), Introduction
Rex Wade, The Russian Revolution, 1917 (2000)
S. A. Smith, The Russian Revolution: A Very Short Introduction (2002)

Week 3 (September 16): Civil War: Formative Myths

*E. H. Carr, The Bolshevik Revolution, vol. 2 (1952), chap. 17.
*William Chamberlin, The Russian Revolution, vol. 2 (1935), chaps. 25, 40.
*Sheila Fitzpatrick, "The Civil War as a Formative Experience," Bolshevik Culture: Experiment and Order in the Russian Revolution, ed. Abbott Gleason, Peter Kenez, and Richard Stites (1985), 57-76.
*William G. Rosenberg, "The Social Background to Tsektran," in Party, State, and Society in the Russian Civil War, ed. Diane P. Koenker, William G. Rosenberg, and Ronald Grigor Suny (1989), 349-373, and Reginald Zelnik’s comment, 374-383.
*Katerina Clark, St Petersburg: Crucible of Cultural Revolution , chap. 5
*Peter Holquist, "‘Information Is the Alpha and Omega of Our Work’: Bolshevik Surveillance in Its Pan-European Context," Journal of Modern History, vol. 69, no. 3. (Sept. 1997), pp. 415-450.

Nikolai Bukharin and Evgenii Preobrazhenskii, The ABC of Communism (1922), chaps. 9-19.
Stephen F. Cohen, Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution (1974), chap. 3.
William G. Rosenberg, Liberals in the Russian Revolution (1974), part 2.
Israel Getzler, Kronstadt: 1917-1921 (1983).
Diane P. Koenker, "Urbanization and Deurbanization in the Russian Revolution and Civil War," Journal of Modern History, September 1985. Also in Party, State and Society in the Russian Civil War, ed. Diane P. Koenker, William G. Rosenberg, and Ronald Grigor Suny, eds (1989), 81-104.
Daniel T. Orlovsky, "State-Building in the Civil War Era: The Role of Lower-Middle Strata," in Party, State, and Society in the Russian Civil War, 324-348.
Mary McAuley, Bread and Justice: State and Society in Petrograd 1917-1922 (1991).
Vladimir Brovkin, Behind the Front Lines of the Civil War: Political Parties and Social Movements (1994).
Lewis Siegelbaum, Soviet State and Society between Revolutions, 1918-1929 (1992), chaps. 1-2 (pp. 1-84).
Donald J. Raleigh, "Languages of Power: How the Saratov Bolsheviks Imagined Their Enemies," Slavic Review, 57:2 (Summer 1998).
S. V. Iarov, Gorozhanin kak politik: revoliutsiia i voennyi kommunizm glazami petrogradtsev 1917-1921 gg (1997)

Week 4 (September 23): Women, Men, Socialist Families

*Elizabeth A. Wood, The Baba and the Comrade: Gender and Politics in Revolutionary Russia (1997), ch. 1.
*Barbara Clements, Bolshevik Women (1997), chap. 4: "The civil war."
*Diane P. Koenker, "Men Against Women on the Shop Floor in NEP Russia: Gender and Class in the Socialist Workplace," American Historical Review, vol. 100, no. 5 (December 1995), 1438-64.
*Eric Naiman, Sex in Public: The Incarnation of Early Soviet Ideology (1997), ch. 5.
*Susan E. Reid, "Cold War in the Kitchen: Gender and the De-Stalinization of Consumer Taste in the Soviet Union under Khrushchev," Slavic Review 61:2 (Summer 2002).
*Douglas Northrop, "Subaltern Dialogues: Subversion and Resistance in Soviet Uzbek Family Law," Slavic Review 60:1 (Spring 2001): 115-139.

Rudolf Schlesinger, Changing Attitudes in Soviet Russia: The Family in the USSR (1949).
Richard Stites, The Women’s Liberation Movement in Russia (1978), chaps. 10-11.
Victoria E. Bonnell, Iconography of Power : Soviet Political Posters under Lenin and Stalin(1999), ch. 2.
Anne Gorsuch, "A Woman Is Not a Man: The Culture of Gender and Generation in Soviet Russia, 1921-1928," Slavic Review, 55:3 (Fall 1996).
Wendy Goldman, Women, the State, and Revolution: Soviet Family Policy and Social Life, 1917-1936 (1993), chap. 6.
Helena Goscilo, "Domostroika or Perestroika? The Construction of Womanhood in Soviet Culture under Glasnost," in Late Soviet Culture: From Perestroika to Novostroika, ed. Thomas Lahusen, with Gene Kuperman (1993).
Lynne Attwood, "Gender Angst in Russian Society and Cinema in the Post-Stalin Era," in Russian Cultural Studies: An Introduction, Ed. Catriona Kelly and David Shepherd (1998), pp. 352-67.

Week 5 (September 30): Identities and Class

*Milovan Djilas, The New Class (1957), chap. 2.
*Diane P. Koenker, "Factory Tales: Narratives of Industrial Relations in the Transition to NEP," Russian Review, vol. 55, no. 3 (July 1996), 384-411.
*Sheila Fitzpatrick, "Ascribing Class: The Construction of Social Identity in Soviet Russia," Journal of Modern History, 65:4 (December 1993), 745-770.
*Diane P. Koenker, Republic of Labor: Printers in the Making of Soviet Socialism, 1918-1930, ms., chap. 6: "New Cultures of Class".
*Jochen Hellbeck, "Fashioning the Stalinist Soul: The Diary of Stepan Podlubnyi (1931-1939)," Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas, Bd. 44, Heft 3 (1996).
*Igal Halfin, "Looking into the Oppositionists’ Souls: Inquisition Communist Style," Russian Review. 60:3 (July 2001), 316-339.
*Eric Naiman, "On Soviet Subjects and the Scholars Who Make Them,"Russian Review, vol. 60, no. 3 (July 2001), 307-315.

Sheila Fitzpatrick, "The Problem of Class Identity in NEP Society," in Russia in the Era of NEP, ed. Sheila Fitzpatrick, Alexander Rabinowitch, and Richard Stites (1991), 12-33.
Hiroaki Kuromiya, "The Crisis of Proletarian Identity in the Soviet Factory," Slavic Review, 44:2 (Summer 1985), 280-297.
Lewis H. Siegelbaum, Stakhanovism and the Politics of Productivity in the USSR, 1935-1941 (1988), chap. 4, ("Making of Stakhanovites.")
Stephen Kotkin, Magnetic Mountain, chap. 5.
Lewis H. Siegelbaum and Ronald Grigor Suny, "Class Backwards? In Search of the Soviet Working Class," in Making Workers Soviet: Power, Class, and Identity , ed. Lewis H. Siegelbaum and Ronald Grigor Suny (1994), 1-26.
Vera Dunham, In Stalin’s Time: Middle-Class Values in Soviet Fiction (1976), chaps. 1, 3.
Jeffrey Brooks, Thank You, Comrade Stalin! Soviet Public Culture from the Revolution to Cold War (2000), ch. 6: "Honor and Dishonor."

Week 6 (October 7): Peasant Society and Collectivization

*Orlando Figes, Peasant Russia, Civil War : The Volga Countryside in Revolution, 1917-1921 (1989), chaps. 2-3.
*Moshe Lewin, Russian Peasants and Soviet Power (1968), chaps. 16, 17, conclusion.
*Sheila Fitzpatrick, Stalin’s Peasants: Resistance and Survival in the Russian Village after Collectivization (1994), chaps. 9-10.
*Lynne Viola, Peasant Rebels under Stalin: Collectivization and the Cultural of Peasant Resistance (1996), chap. 2.
*Lewis H. Siegelbaum, "‘Dear Comrade, You Ask What We Need’: Socialist Paternalism and Soviet Rural ‘Notables’ in the mid-1930s," Slavic Review 57:1 (Spring 1998). Reprinted in Stalinism: New Directions, ed. Sheila Fitzpatrick (2000).

Lynne Viola, Peasant Rebels, chap. 6, OR "Babyi bunty and Peasant Women’s Protest during Collectivization," Russian Review, 45:1 (January 1986); reprinted in Beatrice Farnsworth and Lynne Viola, eds., Russian Peasant Women (1992).
V. P. Danilov, Rural Russia under the New Regime (1989), introductions and chap. 3.
Moshe Lewin, "Who Was the Soviet Kulak?" and "‘Taking Grain’," in Moshe Lewin, The Making of the Soviet System (1985)
R.W. Davies, The Socialist Offensive (1980), chaps. 1, 5.
Robert Conquest, Harvest of Sorrow (1986), chaps. 11, 12, 17, 18.
Mark B. Tauger, "The 1932 Harvest and the Famine of 1933," Slavic Review, 50:1 (Spring 1991), 70-89.
Stephan Merl, Bauern unter Stalin. Die Formierung des Kolchossystems 1930-1941(1990).
Sarah Davies, Popular Opinion in Stalin's Russia: Terror, Propaganda, and Dissent, 1934-1941 (1997), chap. 2.

Week 7 (October 14): Workers: Resistance and Accommodation

*Diane P. Koenker, Republic of Labor: Printers in the Making of Soviet Socialism, 1918-1930, chaps. 8-9 ("Twilight of the Socialist Trade Union" and "Class Formation or the Unmaking of the Working Class?").
*Stephen Kotkin, Magnetic Mountain, chap. 2.
*Moshe Lewin, "Social Relations inside Industry during the Prewar Five-Year Plans, 1928-1941," Making of the Soviet System (1985), 241-257.
*Lewis Siegelbaum, Stakhanovism and the Politics of Productivity in the USSR, 1935-1941 (1988), chaps. 1-2.
*Wendy Z. Goldman, Women at the Gates: Gender and Industry in Stalin’s Russia (2002), chap. 5.
*Rossman, Jeffrey J., "The Teikovo Cotton Workers’ Strike of April 1932: Class, Gender and Identity Politics in Stalin’s Russia." Russian Review. 56:1 (January 1997): 44-69.

Solomon Schwartz, Labor in the Soviet Union, 1951.
Donald Filtzer, Soviet Workers and Stalinist Industrialization: The Formation of Modern Soviet Production Relations, 1928-1941 (1986).
Hiroaki Kuromiya, Stalin’s Industrial Revolution: Politics and Workers, 1928-1932 (1988), chaps. 6-9.
Lewis H. Siegelbaum and Ronald Grigor Suny, eds., Making Workers Soviet: Power, Class, and Identity (1994).
David L. Hoffmann, Peasant Metropolis: Social Identities in Moscow, 1929-1941 (1994), chap. 4.
Sarah Davies, Popular Opinion in Stalin’s Russia, chap. 1.
Victoria E. Bonnell, Iconography of Power: Soviet Political Posters under Lenin and Stalin, (1997), ch. 1.
V. A. Kozlov, Massovye besporiadki v SSSR pri Khrushcheve i Brezhneve (1999).

Week 8 (October 21): Empire and Nations

*Richard Pipes, The Formation of the Soviet Union (1954), chap. 1.
*Yuri Slezkine, "The USSR as a Communal Apartment, or How a Socialist State Promoted Ethnic Particularism," Slavic Review 53:2 (Summer 1994), 414-452.
*Terry Martin, The Affirmative Action Empire: Nations and Nationalism in the Soviet Union, 1923-1939, ch. 1, 3, 8.
*Eric D. Weitz, "Racial Politics without the Concept of Race: Reevaluating Soviet Ethnic and National Purges," Slavic Review, 61:1 (Spring 2002), 1-29, and reply, 62-65.
*Francine Hirsch, "Race without the Practice of Racial Politics," Slavic Review, 61:1 (Spring 2002), 30-43.
*Amir Weiner, "Nothing but Certainty," Slavic Review, 61:1 (Spring 2002), 44-53.
*Alaina Lemon, "Without a "Concept"? Race as Discursive Practice," Slavic Review, 61:1 (Spring 2002), 54-61.

Ronald Grigor Suny, The Revenge of the Past (1994), ch. 2-3.
Alexandre Bennigsen and Marie Broxup, The Islamic Threat to the Soviet State (1983), chap. 1.
Martha Brill Olcott, The Kazakhs (1987), chaps.. 6-11 [or others in the Hoover series on nationalities, by Raun, Rorlich, Suny].
Aleksandr Nekrich, The Punished Peoples (1978).
Yuri Slezkine, Arctic Mirrors: Russia and the Small Peoples of the North (1994), chaps. 5, 9.
Mark von Hagen, "Does Ukraine Have a History?" Slavic Review, vol. 54, no. 3 (Fall 1995), 658-73.
Serhy Yekelchyk , "Diktat and Dialogue in Stalinist Culture: Staging Patriotic Historical Opera in Soviet Ukraine, 1936-1954," Slavic Review. 59:3 (Fall 2000), 597-625
Zvi Gitelman, Jewish Nationality and Soviet Politics (1972), chaps. 3, 5, 6, 7.

Week 9 (October 28): Everyday Life

*Laura Phillips, Bolsheviks and the Bottle: Drink and Worker Culture in St. Petersburg, 1900-1929 (2000), ch. 4: "Functions of the Tavern."
*Elena Osokina, Our Daily Bread : Socialist Distribution and the Art of Survival in Stalin’s Russia, 1927-1941 (2001). part 2, ch. 2, part 3, ch 1.
*Sheila Fitzpatrick, Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s (1999), ch. 4.
*Nicholas S.Timasheff, The Great Retreat: The Growth and Decline of Communism in Russia (1946), ch. 10: "Population, Social Classes, Mores, and Morals".
*Svetlana Boym, "Living in Common Places: The Communal Apartment," in Boym, Common Places: Mythologies of Everyday Life in Russia (1994), 121-67.
*Alena Ledeneva, Russia’s Economy of Favours: Blat, Networking and Informal Exchange (1998), ch. 1, 3.

Natalia Lebina, Povsednevnaia zhizn’ sovetskogo goroda 1920/1930 gody (1999)
Timo Vihavainen, ed., Normy i tsennosti posvednevnoi zhizni 1920-1930-e gody (2000).
Alex Inkeles and Raymond Bauer, The Soviet Citizen: Daily Life in a Totalitarian Society (1968).
Iurii Gerchuk, "The Aesthetics of Everyday Life in the Khrushchev Thaw in the USSR (1954-64), in Style and Socialism: Modernity and Material Culture in Post-War Eastern Europe, ed. Susan E. Reid and David Crowley (2000), 81-99.
Deborah Field. " Irreconcilable Differences: Divorce and Conceptions of Private Life in the Khrushchev Era" Russian Review Vol. 57,No. 4 (1998), 599-613
Vladimir Shlapentokh, Love, Marriage and Friendship in the Soviet Union: Ideals and Practices( 1984).
Nancy Ries, Russian Talk: Culture and Conversation during Perestroika (1997), chaps. 1, 3.

Week 10 (November 4): Cultural Revolutions

*Michael David-Fox, "What Is Cultural Revolution?" Russian Review, 58:2 (April 1999), 181-201; also Sheila Fitzpatrick response and David-Fox reply.
*René Fuelop-Miller, The Mind and Face of Bolshevism (1926), ch. 5: "The Bolshevik Monumental Style."
*Sheila Fitzpatrick, "Introduction," The Cultural Front (1992).
*Sheila Fitzpatrick, "Cultural Revolution as Class War," Cultural Front, 115-148.
*Richard Stites, Revolutionary Dreams (1989), part 2 (59-164).
*Katerina Clark, St. Petersburg, Introduction, chaps. 11, 12, Epilogue.

William G. Rosenberg, ed., Bolshevik Visions: First Phase of the Cultural Revolution in Russia (1984).
Katerina Clark, "The City versus the Countryside in Soviet Peasant Literature in the 1920s," in Bolshevik Culture , 175-189.
Jeffrey Brooks, "Public and Private Values in the Soviet Press, 1921-1928," Slavic Review, 48:1 (Spring 1989), 16-35.
Sheila Fitzpatrick, "The Soft Line on Culture and Its Enemies," Cultural Front, 91-114.
Yuri Slezkine, "From Savages to Citizens: The Cultural Revolution in the Soviet Far North," Slavic Review, 51:1 (Spring 1992), 52-76; or Arctic Mirrors, chap. 7.
Katerina Clark, The Soviet Novel: History as Ritual (1981), chaps. 1, 2, 7, 8.
Lewis Siegelbaum, Stakhanovism, chap. 6.
Fitzpatrick, Education and Social Mobility in the Soviet Union, 1921-34 (1979).
Lynn Mally, Culture of the Future: The Proletcult Movement in Revolutionary Russia (1990), ch. 3.
Mark D. Steinberg, Proletarian Imagination (2002), introduction.

Week 11 (November 11): Popular Culture

*Lynn Mally, Revolutionary Acts: Amateur Theater and the Soviet State (2000), ch. 3
*Evgeny Dobrenko, "The Disaster of Middlebrow Taste, or Who ‘Invented’ Socialist Realism?", in Socialist Realism without Shores, ed. Thomas Lahusen and Evgeny Dobrenko (1997).
*James von Geldern, "Radio Moscow: The Voice from the Center," in Culture and Entertainment in Wartime Russia, ed. Richard Stites (1995), pp. 44-61.
*Aleksei Yurchak, "The Cynical Reason of Late Socialism: Power, Pretense, and the Anekdot," Public Culture 9:2 (Winter 1997), pp. 161-188.
*Nancy Condee and Vladimir Padunov, "The ABC of Russian Consumer Culture: Reading, Ratings, and Real Estate," in Soviet Hieroglyphics: Visual Culture in Late Twentieth Century Russia, ed. Nancy Condee (1995), 130-72.
*Catherine Theimer Nepomyashchy, "Markets, Mirrors, and Mayhem: Aleksandra Marinina and the Rise of the New Russian Detektiv," in Consuming Russia: Popular Culture, Sex, and Society since Gorbachev (1999).

Abbott Gleason, Peter Kenez, and Richard Stites, eds., Bolshevik Culture: Experiment and Order in the Russian Revolution (1985).
Anne Gorsuch, Youth in Revolutionary Russia: Enthusiasts, Bohemians, Delinquents (2000), ch. 6: "Flappers and Foxtrotters."
Karen Petrone, Life Has Become More Joyous, Comrades: Celebrations in the Time of Stalin (2000), ch. 4: "Fir Trees and Carnivals: The Celebration of Soviet New Year’s Day."
Svetlana Boym, "Mythologies of Everyday Life," in Common Places.
Adele Barker, ed., Consuming Russia: Popular Culture, Sex, and Society since Gorbachev (1999).
Richard Stites, Russian Popular Culture: Entertainment and Society since 1900 (1992).
Christel Lane, The Rites of Rulers: Ritual in Industrial Society – the Soviet Case (1981).

Week 12 (November 18): Terror and Coercion

*Roy Medvedev, Let History Judge (1971), chaps. 4-6, 9, 10.
*Robert C. Tucker, Stalin in Power (1990), chap. 15.
*Stephen Kotkin, Magnetic Mountain , chap. 7 (280-354).
*Sarah Davies, Popular Opinion in Stalin’s Russia, chap. 8.
*Jochen Hellbeck, "Writing the Self in a Time of Terror: Alexander Afinogenov’s Diary of 1937," Self and Story in Russian History. Ed. Laura Engelstein and Stephanie Sandler (2000), 69-93.
*J. Arch Getty, "‘Excesses Are Not Permitted’: Mass Terror and Stalinist Governance in the Late 1930s," Russian Review 61:1 (January 2002), 113-38.

Merle Fainsod, Smolensk under Soviet Rule (1958), chap. 11.
Robert Conquest, The Great Terror (rev. ed.. 1990), chap. 3.
Robert C. Tucker, Stalin in Power (1990), chaps. 12, 16, 17, 18.
J. Arch Getty, The Origins of the Great Purges (1985).
Gabor Rittersporn, "The Omnipresent Conspiracy: On Soviet Imagery of Politics and Social Relations in the 1930s," in J. Arch Getty and Roberta T. Manning, eds., Stalinist Terror (1993), 99-115.
Stephen G. Wheatcroft, "More Light on the Scale of Repression and Excess Mortality in the Soviet Union in the 1930s," in Stalinist Terror, 275-290.
Sheila Fitzpatrick, "Workers against Bosses," in Making Workers Soviet, ed. Siegelbaum and Suny, 311-340.

Week 13 (December 2): Great Patriotic War

*Alexander Werth, Russia at War, 1941-1945 (1964) part 2, chaps. 1-3.
*Jeffrey Brooks, Thank You, Comrade Stalin: Soviet Public Culture from Revolution to Cold War (2000), ch. 7-8.
*Amir Weiner, Making Sense of War: The Second World War and the Fate of the Bolshevik Revolution (2001), introduction and ch. 6.
*Norman Naimark, The Russians in Germany: A History of the Soviet Zone of Occupation, 1945-1949 (1995), ch. 5.
*Catherine Merridale, Night of Stone: Death and Memory in Russia (2001), ch. 8.

Robert Argenbright, "Space of Survival: The Soviet Evacuation of Industry and Population in 1941," Beyond the Limits: The Concept of Space in Russian History and Culture, ed. Jeremy Smith (1999)., 207-240.
Robert Thurston and Bernd Bonwetsch, eds. The People’s War: Responses to World War II in the Soviet Union (2000).
Richard Stites, ed., Culture and Entertainment in Wartime Russia (1995).
John Barber and Mark Harrison, The Soviet Home Front 1941-45 (1991)
William O. McCagg, Jr., Stalin Embattled, 1943-48 (1978).
Katerina Clark, The Soviet Novel, (1981) chap. 10.
Linz, Susan J., ed. The Impact of World War II on the Soviet Union (1985)
Jan T. Gross, Revolution from Abroad. The Soviet Conquest of Poland’s Western Ukraine and Western Belorussia (1987).

Week 14 (December 9): Stalin and Stalinism: One Problem or Two?

*Isaac Deutscher, Stalin (1949), chap. 9.
*Moshe Lewin, "Social Background to Stalinism," in Making of the Soviet System.
*Robert C. Tucker, "Stalinism as Revolution from Above," in Tucker, ed., Stalinism (1977), 77-108.
*Stephen F. Cohen, "Bolshevism and Stalinism," in Tucker, ed., Stalinism (1977), 3-29.
*Stephen Kotkin, Magnetic Mountain, 355-366.
*Jeffrey Brooks, Thank You, Comrade Stalin, ch. 3.
*Gabriel Gorodetsky, Grand Illusion: Stalin and the Invasion of Russia (1999) intro. and conclusion.

Norman Naimark, "Cold War Studies and New Archival Materials on Stalin," Russian Review, 61:1 (January 2002), 1-15.
Robert C. Tucker, Stalin as Revolutionary (1973) and Stalin in Power (1990).
Dmitry Volkogonov, Stalin: Triumph and Tragedy (1990).
Sarah Davies, Popular Opinion in Stalin’s Russia, chaps. 9-11.
Sheila Fitzpatrick, "Introduction," Stalinism: New Directions (2000), ed. Sheila Fitzpatrick, 1-14.

Office hours

History department (301 Gregory Hall, 244-2083)
Mondays, 2-3 (other times quite readily by appointment)
Wednesday 9-10

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