Place: 205 Wheeler Office Hours: Th 11-12

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Hist 280, Sprng 2013: Introduction to Soviet Historiography (Yuri Slezkine)

Time: Tu 2-4

Place: 205 Wheeler Office Hours: Th 11-12

Oral requirements: 10-minute reports; class discussion.

Written requirements: 1.5/2-page book reviews due each week. There are no paper requirements.

All assigned texts are on reserve at Grad Services.

1. Introduction (1/22)

2. Total Revolution (1/29)

Hannah Arendt, Totalitarianism

Merle Fainsod, How Russia is Ruled

3. The Revolution Betrayed (2/5)

Leon Trotsky, The Revolution Betrayed

Milovan Djilas, The New Class

4. The Social Revolution (2/12)

Sheila Fitzpatrick, The Russian Revolution

Moshe Lewin, The Gorbachev Phenomenon

5. Revolutionary Culture (2/19)

Richard Stites, Revolutionary Dreams

Katerina Clark, The Soviet Novel

6. Collectivization (2/26)

Sheila Fitzpatrick, Stalin’s Peasants

Lynne Viola, The Unknown Gulag

7. Stalinism as Civilization (3/5)

Stephen Kotkin, Magnetic Mountain

David L. Hoffmann, Cultivating the Masses

8. Stalinism as a Work of Art (3/12)

Boris Groys, The Total Art of Stalinism

Vladimir Paperny, Architecture in the Age of Stalin

9. The New Man (3/19)

Veronique Garros et al., eds., Intimacy and Terror

Jochen Hellbeck, Revolution on My Mind

10. The Great Terror (4/2)

Stéphane Courtois et al, The Black Book of Communism, pp. ix-268

J. Arch Getty and Oleg Naumov, The Road to Terror

11. Utopia in Power (4/9)

Martin Malia, The Soviet Tragedy

Andrzej Walicki, Marxism and the Leap to the Kingdom of Freedom

12. The New Empire (4/16)

Terry Martin, The Affirmative Action Empire

Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands

13. The Great War (4/23)

Amir Weiner, Making Sense of War

Catherine Merridale, Ivan's War

14. The End (4/30)

Alexei Yurchak, Everything Was Forever

Vladislav Zubok, Zhivago's Children