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EK81
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Spragins
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Spring
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3rd
Period EVEN Days; Drop Down Day 1
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Second
Semester Topics:
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The
Russian Revolutions
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The
Stalin Revolution
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Kandinsky, Moscow 1916 | The Foundation Pit by Andrey Platonov |
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Life
and Fate (1960) by Vasily
Grossman
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Gorbachev,
Yeltsin and Putin: Russia’s Future?
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Overview
Lecture (powerpoint)
(notes)
Homework:
"Marxism Comes to Russia" Chapter 2 of Twentieth Century Russia (2000) by Donald Treadgold (Reading
Guide)
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"Marxism Comes to Russia" Chapter 2 of Twentieth Century Russia (2000) by Donald Treadgold (Reading
Guide) (Quiz)
Homework:
RUSSIA 1905 Williams, Beryl. History Today 55. 5 (May 2005): 44-51.
For further reading:
Lenin Lecture on the 1905 Revolution
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Bloody Sunday January 22, 1905 (A still from the Soviet movie Devyatoe yanvarya ("9th of January") (1925))
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The Russian Revolutions (notes)
RUSSIA 1905 Williams, Beryl. History Today 55. 5 (May 2005): 44-51. (Outline)
The October Manifesto
Homework:
Malia’s Lenin
NYRB Volume 48, Number 17 · November 1, 2001
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Russian Revolution Essay (Due 2/15)
The 1917 Revolutions
Malia’s Lenin (outline)
Homework:
Blok, "The Twelve" (1917)
Trotsky on Blok (More)
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Alexander Blok
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Russian Revolution Essay (Due 2/15)
The 1917 Revolutions
Blok, "The Twelve" (1917)
Homework:
Babel’s "My First Goose" (1925) + Siegal
on Babel
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Russian Revolution Essay (Due 2/15)
The 1917 Revolutions (chronology) Crane Britton on the
Anatomy of Revolution
Babel’s "My First Goose" (1925) + Siegal
on Babel
Homework:
Bulgakov’s Heart
of a Dog (Act One) (Study Guide)
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Mikhail Bulgakov
(1891-1940)
John Hodge: from Trainspotting to Bulgakov (2011)
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Russian Revolution Essay (Due 2/15)
The 1917 Revolutions: The NEP (1921-25)
Bulgakov’s Heart
of a Dog (1925) (Act One) (Study Guide) (movie) Act One - A scalded mutt
freezing on Moscow’s wintry streets (pp. 13-16) (a Christmas story...survival in Moscow winter....learning to read... the doorman)
- Professor Preobrajensky’s Mad Experiments in Reanimation (pp. 19-22) (womanpatient) (man with green hair)
- The Marxist
Apartment Committee’s policy of tenant compression (pp. 22-23) (committee1) (committee2) (tenant
compression)
- Dinner and Professor Preobrajansky’s pessimism about socialism (pp. 28-29) (Kalabukhov House and galoshes) (twogods)
- The Journal of
a Laboratory Dog (pp. 36-38) (operation)
Homework:
Bulgakov’s Heart
of a Dog (Act Two)
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Bulgakov’s Heart
of a Dog (Act Two)
The Russian Revolutions: The NEP (1921-25)
Close Reading: - The Journal of a Laboratory Dog (pp. 36-38) (first words) (Chugunkin)
- Comrade Sharik’s embarrassing couture (pp. 39-41) (Sharik's entrance) (peasant class) (Comrade Sharikov) (Fotopopov)
- Sharik’s crude faux-pas at the dinner
table (pp. 45-48) (scene two) (gas attack) (Marxist theory) (cats)
- Sharik and
the Department of Animal Information (pp. 49-53) (cat purges) (Sharik's girlfriend) (Cat attack!)
- Spinoza’s
Brain (pp. 54-55) (Sharik denounces Preobrazhensky)
- Lobotomizing
the Proletariat (pp. 58-59) (Is it murder?)
- The thymus
of a yessum (pp. 59-60) (the madness continues)
Some ideas to consider for your essay: - What
is Bulgakov's stand on the debate about how human idenity is formed?
Does experience determine consciousness (as Marx would argue)?
- Does social engineering work?
- Is Westernization the answer?
- Why did Stalin enjoy Bulgakov's portrayal of 'homo sovieticus'?
Homework:
Fitzpatrick’s Russian Revolution (reading guide)
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W. B. Yeats, "The Second Coming" (1919)
Fitzpatrick’s Russian Revolution (reading guide) - Historiography: Bolsheviks; Mensheviks, Trotsky, Totalitarian, Modernization
- Fitzpatrick's Thesis: 'terror, progress and upward mobility'
- What is her point about 'value judgements'? How does she deal with the problem of the use of terror and violence to coerce goals?
- Does she convince you with her argument that the revolution was legitimate due to 'working-class upward
mobility'?
Crane Britton on the
Anatomy of Revolution
Review: Homework: Russian Revolution Essay (Due 2/15)
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Essay on Russian Revolution Due at 3:30 p.m.
Eisenstein, The Battleship Potemkin (1925) (complete film) Eisenstein on Workers Films (1924)
Homework:
- "Master of Fear" By Ian Buruma NYRB Volume 51, Number 8 · May 13, 2004
- "In Cannibalistic Times" NYRB Volume 38, Number 7 · April 11, 1991 by Tatyana Tolstaya, Translated by Jamey Gambrell
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The 1917 Revolutions: The Five Year Plan Buruma & Tolstaya on Stalin
(Notes) - "Master of Fear" By Ian Buruma NYRB Volume 51, Number 8 · May 13, 2004
- "In Cannibalistic Times" NYRB Volume 38, Number 7 · April 11, 1991 by Tatyana Tolstaya, Translated by Jamey Gambrell
Primary Sources;
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"In Cannibalistic Times" NYRB Volume 38, Number 7 · April 11, 1991 by Tatyana Tolstaya, Translated by Jamey Gambrel
"Why They Believed in Stalin" by Aileen Kelly NYRB Volume 54, Number 7 · April 26, 2007
"In the Main Line of Attack" by Vasili Grossman A report from Stalingrad, Pravda 1942
Notes on Burama, Tolstaya and Kelly
Notes on Grossman
Homework:
Prieto, "Reading Mandelstam on Stalin" NYRB June 10, 2010 |
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Osip Mandelstam, "Epigram Against Stalin"
Stalin's Phone Conversation with Pasternak about Mandelstam
The Foundation Pit (1932)
Homework:
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Foundation
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Essay on
Stalin
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Mikhalov’s Burnt
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Homework:
Essay on
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Mikhalov’s Burnt
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Essay on
Stalin due at 3:30 p.m.
Homework:
Introduction
to Vasily Grossman
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Introduction
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Homework:
Life
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Homework:
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Homework:
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Homework:
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Homework:
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Homework:
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Review
Part One:
Homework:
Essay
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Homework:
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Homework:
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Homework:
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Homework:
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Homework:
Remnick on Gorbachev &
Tolstaya on 1991
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Homework:
Ash on
1991-2001 (handout)
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Homework:
Cohen’s
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Homework:
Merridale’s Haunted by
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Homework:
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Homework:
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Essay
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