Russian Studies			3rd Period EVEN Days; Bump Day 1
	EK 71
	Spragins
	Spring 2012
	Outline:
			The Russian Revolutions
			The Stalin Revolution
			The Foundation Pit by Andrey Platonov
			Life and Fate (1960) by Vasily Grossman
			The Collapse of the Soviet Union and the Future of Russia
Month	Day	Cycle Day	Day	Assignment
1	23	Day 1	Mon.	Exam Make Up Day
1	24	Day 2	Tues.
	Russia 1914 Tsar Nicholas II and his Family		Overview Lecture (powerpoint) (notes) Homework: "Marxism Comes to Russia" Chapter 2 of Twentieth Century Russia (2000) by Donald Treadgold (Reading Guide) Peasant Family
1	25	Day 3	Wed.
1	26	Day 4	Thurs.
			"Marxism Comes to Russia" Chapter 2 of Twentieth Century Russia (2000) by Donald Treadgold (Reading Guide) (Quiz) (answers) Homework: RUSSIA 1905 Williams, Beryl. History Today 55. 5 (May 2005): 44-51.  For further reading: Lenin Lecture on the 1905 Revolution
1	27	Day 5	Fri.
1	30	Day 6	Mon.
	Bloody Sunday January 22, 1905 (A still from the Soviet movie Devyatoe yanvarya ("9th of January") (1925) Ilya Repin,  17 October 1905		The Russian Revolutions (notes) RUSSIA 1905 Williams, Beryl. History Today 55. 5 (May 2005): 44-51. (Outline) (Notes) The October Manifesto Homework: Malia’s Lenin (outline) Lenin and the 'Radiant Future by Martin Malia New York Review of Books Volume 48, Number 17 (2001) Miner, "A Revolution Doomed From the Start"  March 9, 1997 New York Times Book Review on Orlando Figes' A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1891- 1924 The Soviet experiment was bound to fail, says Orlando Figes, because it tried to change human nature.
1	31	Day 7	Tues.
2	1	Day 8	Wed.
			Russian Revolution Essay (Due 2/15) The 1917 Revolutions Malia’s Lenin (outline) Homework: Blok, "The Twelve" (1917)   Trotsky on Blok (More)
2	2	Day 9	Thurs.
2	3	Day 10	Fri.
	Alexander Blok by Konstantin Somov (1907)		Russian Revolution Essay (Due 2/15) The 1917 Revolutions Blok's, "The Twelve" (1917)  Homework: Babel’s "My First Goose" (1925) + Siegal on Babel
2	6	Day 1	Mon.
	Isaac Babel (1894-1940)		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, Heart of a Dog (1925); (another translation) (Steppenwolf Theatre dramatization);  (Review of Alexander Raskatov's opera based on the novella); Batumi, Bulgakov’s play about Stalin’s early years commissioned by the Moscow Art Theater to celebrate the dictator’s sixtieth birthday in December 1939; Collaborators a play by  John Hodge, directed by Nicholas Hytner National Theatre, London, October 25, 2011–June 2012;  Figes, A Double Game with Stalin NYRB (2012);  The Days of the Turbins (1926) ; the original Bulgakov play, which Stalin saw several times,  was based on his novel  The White Guard ;  from The Master and Margarida (1939) (full text)   Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bukgakov. Full text in English. tr. Michael Glenny Bulgakov’s Heart of a Dog  (1925)  (Act One) (Study Guide)
2	7	Day 2	Tues.
	Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940) John Hodge: from Trainspotting to Bulgakov (2011) Figes, A Double Game with Stalin NYRB (2012		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  (1925)   (Act Two)
2/	8	Day 3	Wed.	Parent Conference Day
2	9	Day 4	Thurs.
	(Review of Alexander Raskatov's opera based on the novella)		Bulgakov’s Heart of a Dog  (1925)  (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)
2	10	Day 5	Fri.
2	13	Day 6	Mon.
			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: The 1917 Revolutions RUSSIA 1905 Williams, Beryl. History Today 55. 5 (May 2005): 44-51. (Outline) (Notes) Malia’s Lenin (outline) Lenin and the 'Radiant Future by Martin Malia New York Review of Books Volume 48, Number 17 · November 1, 2001 Blok's, "The Twelve" (1917)  Babel’s "My First Goose" (1925) Bulgakov’s Heart of a Dog  (1925)  Homework:  Russian Revolution Essay (Due 2/15)
2	14	Day 7	Tues.
2	15	Day 8	Wed.
			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 Gambrel Figes, Rise of a Gangster NYRB (2007)
2	16	Day 9	Thurs.
2	17	Day 0	Fri.	Professional Day
2	20	Day 0	Mon.	Presidents Day
2	21	Day 10	Tues.
			The 1917 Revolutions: The Five Year Plan Notes on Burama, Tolstaya and Kelly "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 Gambrel Homework: "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
2	22	Day 1	Wed.
			Interpretations of the Stalin Terror: "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 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
2	23	Day 2	Fri.
	Efimov, Ezhov's Iron Glove (1937) Ahkmatova's Requiem		Prieto, "Reading Mandelstam on Stalin" NYRB June 10, 2010 Osip Mandelstam, "Epigram Against Stalin" Stalin's Phone Conversation with Pasternak about Mandelstam The Foundation Pit (1932) Andrey Platonov, translated from the Russian by Robert Chandler, Elizabeth Chandler and Olga Meerson Kalder, "Andrei Platonov: Russia's greatest 20th-century prose stylist?" guardian.co.uk, Thursday 18 February 2010 Homework: Read Figes, "A Great Russian Writer in the Communist Cauldron" NYRB April 29, 2010
2	27	Day 4	Mon.
	Andrey Platonov (1899-1951)		Introduction to Platonov’s The Foundation Pit (1927-32) The 1917 Revolutions: The Five Year Plan Orlando Figes, "A Great Russian Writer in the Communist Cauldron" NYRB April 29, 2010 Outline (Spragins) Summary (Sovlit.com) Homework: Platonov’s The Foundation Pit, pp. 1-69 Platonov’s The Foundation Pit, pp. 70-150
2	28	Day 5	Tues.
2	29	Day 6	Wed.
			Platonov’s The Foundation Pit, pp. 70-150 The 1917 Revolutions: The Five Year Plan  Platonov’s The Foundation Pit (1927-32) Outline (Spragins) Homework: Essay on Stalin casahistoria: Collectivisation Summary (Sovlit.com)
3	1	Day 7	Thurs.
3	2	Day 8	Fri.
			The 1917 Revolutions: The Five Year Plan  Platonov’s The Foundation Pit (1927-32) Outline (Spragins) Summary (Sovlit.com) Homework: Essay on Stalin Akhmatova, "Requiem" (1935-61) (notes) (more poems) (more poems) (selected poetry) ; Poetry of Anna Akhmatova - In English. ; Kelly, “A Great Russian Prophet” (on Anna Akhmatova) (2005)
3	5	Day 9	Mon.
3	6	Day 10	Tues.
			The War in the East: Operation Barbarossa Europe Between the Wars Operation Barbarossa Multimedia Map Vasily Grossman, "In the Main Line of Attack” (1942) The Battle of Stalingrad (1942) Brief Chronology of the Final Solution Homework: Kirsch, "The Individual Soul" NYRB (2011) Spufford,"Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman" Guardian (2011) Chandler, Vassily Grossman's Life and Fate (2006);  Applebaum, "The Real Patriotic War" NYRB, 4-6-06 Ivan’s War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939–1945 by Catherine Merridale A Writer at War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army, 1941–1945 Antony Beevor and Luba Vinogradova Read Life and Fate, chapters 1-6 (17-35)
3	7	Day 1	Wed.
			Kirsch, "The Individual Soul" NYRB (2011) Spufford,"Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman" Guardian (2011) Life and Fate, chapters 1-6 (17-35) Mikhail Sidorovich Mostovsky Arrival Camp Social Structure Special Prisoner Block The Holy Fool Lager Language Mostovsky's Defiance Homework: Read Life and Fate, chapters 7-14 (pp.35-67)
			Grossman's affirmation of freedom recalls Dostoevsky's concept of "Russian Reason" touted by Herzen and personified in the character of Razumikhin. Radical slaovophilism relies upon the type of intuitive compassion which runs counter to logical self-interest. The human mind is too complex and unpredictable to be engineered using coercive logic as the Bolsheviks attempted. Instead, people must be trusted to choose freely and thus assert their moral dignity. Lovely idea, but remember that Razumikhin refuses to recognize Raskolnikov's capacity for irrational evil.
3	8	Day 2	Thurs.
			Part One, chapters 7-14 (pp.35-67)  Stalingrad: 62^nd Army Position (West bank of the Volga) Storm of Steel The Most Difficult Period for the Defenders of Stalingrad has Begun The Burning Volga Krymov’s Lecture Combat and Time Krymov’s Dream Yeremenko Inspects the Frontline Byerozkin Inspects Pochufarov’s Sector  Homework: Part One, chapters 15-22 (pp.68-115)
3	9	Day 3	Fri.
3	12	Day 4	Mon.
			Part One, chapters 15-22 (pp. 68-115) The Shapashnikovas in Kazan Lyudmila Family Dynamics Quantum Physics (78) Anna Semyonovna’s Last Letter (80) Quantum Politics Tolya is a Casualty Getmanov: Master of the Oblast Leaves for War Getmanov's Farewell Party Getmanov's Farewell to his Family Homework: Part One, chapters 23-38 (pp. 115-174)
3	13	Day 5	Tues.
3	14	Day 6	Wed.
	The Southern Steppes Soviet Air Force Poster		Table of Contents Part One, Chapters 23-25 Zhenya in Kuibyshev Jenny Genrikhovna's Arrest Zhenya's Residence Permit Shargorodsky: the Eccentric Prince Part One, Chapters 26-34 Lyudmila's Journey The Steamship The Nomenklatura Saratov Arrival Tolya's Operation Dr. Shimansky Guilt before the Mother of the Dead Gravediggers Tolya's Grave Lyudmila Changed Part One, Chapters 35-38 Air Force Reserve Camp Viktorov in Old Russian Forest Princess Dolgurokaya Berman: the Mukhin Affair Pilot Banter by Night Homework: Part One Chapters 39-61 (174-266)
3	15	Day 7	Thurs.
3	16	Day 8	Fri.
			Part One, Chapters 39-41(174-194) The Mining Camp on the Taiga: 39. Gulag Work Camp 40. Abarchuk Remembers Tolya and Confronts the Barrack Thug 41. Magar the apostate revolutionary’s suicide Part One, Chapters 42-51(195-217) The Shoah: 42. Late Summer 1942: The Apogee of Fascism 43. Sofy Levinton in the Cattle Car 44. Naum Rozenberg Exhuming Mass Graves 45. Musya Borisovna Witnesses the Ghetto’s Extermination 46. Natasha Karasik Survives 47. David, Hiding in the Bukhmans’ Attic 48. David’s Visit to Grandmother’s 49. The Prewar Integration of Jews and Ukrainians 50. Infected Cattle Slaughter 51. The Machine and The Ten Million Part One, Chapters 52-61 (218-266) Holding Out in House 6/1: 52. Novikov and Getmanov in the Urals 53. What Does Novikov Fight For? 54. Krymov: War Effort Creates the True Soviet State 55. Sniper Meeting 56. Krymov at the Red October Works 57. House 6/1 58. Grekov’s Commune 59. Seryozha Sent to Krylov’s Headquarters 60. Grekhov and Co. Through the Boy’s Eyes 61. The Central Power Station Homework: Part One, Chapters 62-71 (266-322)
3	17	Day 0	Sat.	Spring Break
3	26	Day 0	Mon.	Spring Break
3	27	Day 9	Tues.
3	28	Day 10	Wed.
	Stalingrad, Summer 1942 Stalingrad Summer 1942		Part One, Chapters 62-71 (266-322) Sokolov’s Salon in Kazan 62. Viktor’s Problems with The Theory 63. Sokolov’s Salon 64. The Salon on Literature The Kalmyk Steppes 65. Lt.-Col. Darensky on The Kalmyk Steppe 66. Darensky Seduces the Post-Commander’s Wife The Concentration Camp 67. Mostovskoy and Chernetsov Debate; Ikonnikov’s News 68. Joining Vlasov’s Regiment? 69. Yershov’s Comintern 70. Yershov Visits His Father in the Gulag 71. Gen. Gudz and Col. Osipov’s  Suspicions of Yershov Homework: Part Two, Chapters 1-13 (325-391)
3	29	Day 1	Thurs.
			Part Two, Chapters 1-14 (325-391) With Novikov’s Tank Corps (325-346) 1. New Recruits 2. Novikov in Kuibyshev 3. Zhenya 4. Novikov Calls Getmanov’s Bluff 5. Zhenya’s Love for Novikov but also for Family The Move to Moscow (346-368) 6. Viktor’s Shares His Discovery with Sokolov 7. The Move to Moscow 8. Karimov Warns Viktor of Mayarov (then vive-versa) 9. Family on Emotional Brink The Germans At Stalingrad (368-382) 10. The German Infirmary 11. Bach’s Indoctrination/ Refusing Zina’s Visit 12. General Paulus Darensky in Position (383-91) 13. Darensky and Bova Speak Freely in Kalmyk Hut Homework:  Part Two, chapters 14- 23 (pp. 392-441)
3	30	Day 2	Fri.
	Major Marina Raskova		Notes on Fascism vs. Marxist-Leninism vs. Liberalism Part Two, chapters 14- 23 (pp. 392-441) Mostovskoy and Liss (391-411) 14. State National Socialism 15. Ikkonikov on ‘The Good’ House 6/1 Romance (411-435) 16. Katya Thinks of Grekov and Seryozha 17. Grekov's Choice 18. Krymov’s Orders 19. Transit to House 6/1 20. Laughter at Krymov’s Rebuke of Grekov 21. Byerozkhin’s Treatment The German Offensive (435-441) 22. Klimov and Old Polyakov in No Man’s Land 23. Byerrozkin Buried Homework: Essay on Life and Fate Part One Due by 3:30 p.m.
4	2	Day 3	Mon.
4	3	Day 4	Tues.
			Essay on Life and Fate Part One Due by 3:30 p.m. Film: Enemy at the Gates Homework:  Part Two, chapters 16- 38 (pp. 441-529)
4	4	Day 5	Wed.
4	5	Day 6	Thurs.
			Moscow Winter 1942 (441-470) 16. Viktor Shtrum and Family Return to Their Apartment 17. At the Institute 18. Chetverikov Sacked! 19. An Oasis of Luxury Constructing the Death Camp (pp. 471-487) 28. The Architecture of the Gas Chamber 29. Eichmann 30. Hors d’ouvres in the Gas Chamber 31. Anti-Semitism Final Preparations for the Counter-Offensive (pp. 487-508) 32. Which Battalion Commander? 33. Getmanov’s First Bomb 34. Dinner at Corps Headquarters 35. Yeremenko’s Aside Krymov’s Report (pp. 508-529) 36. Krymov’s Report 37. Celebrating 6 November 1942 38. Central Power Station Homework:  Part Two, chapters 38-63  (pp. 529-611)
4	6	Day 0	Fri.	Good Friday
4	9	Day 0	Mon.	Professional Day
4	10	Day 7	Tues.
4	11	Day 8	Wed.
	Snyder, "Who Killed More: Hitler or Stalin?" NYRB 3-10-11		The Death Camp in Action (pp. 529-562) 39. Mostovskoy’s Choice 40. Mostovskoy’s Execution 41. SS Sondercommando 42. Anton Khelmkov’s Fate 43. Sturmbanfuhrer Kaltluft 44. The Platform 45. Life! 46. Passage into the Complex 47. The Changing Room 48. The Gas Chamber 49. Grossman’s Comment 50. Semyonov, the POW Moscow Institute: The Ideologues Reassert Authority (563-597) 51. The Stalin Prize Nominations 52. Idealogues in Action 53. The Questionairre 54. Shishakov’s Office 55. Alexandra Vladimirovna’s Letter 56. The Walk With Marya Ivanovna Eve of Counter-Attack (597-611) (597-611) 57. The Folklore of Lice 58. The Black Moon 59. The Offensive Commences 60. Central Power Station 61. The Ferry Hostel 62. Vera’s Night Thoughts 63. Victorov Shot Down Homework:  Part Three, chapters 1-18  (pp. 615-662)
4	12	Day 9	Thurs.
4	13	Day 10	Fri.
	Lubyanka Prison  in the 1940s. The notorious Lubyanka Prison is still a government building, but no longer a prison. Operation Uranus November 1943		Krymov in the Lubyanka (615-638) 1. Krymov Arrested 2. Interrogation in the Special Section 3. Life as a Political Prisoner 4. The Lubyanka (NKVD Headquarters) 5. The Lubyanka’s Mystique 6. Dreling Katsnelenbogen, and Bogolev The Offensive Commences (638-662) 7. 19 November 1942 8. 20 November 1942 9. Novikov Delays 10. Stalin Waits 11. Paulus’ Plea to Hitler 12. Soviet Tank Commanders Link Up 13. Getmanov’s Report 14. Stalin Sings a Little Tune 15. Tolstoy’s Theory Denied 16. Hitler Lost in the Woods 17. Chyukov and His Generals Sit in Silence 18. Simple Soldiers Consider Their Accomplishment Homework: Part Three, Chapters 19-
4	16	Day 1	Mon.
			Viktor Shtrum’s Crimes (662-711) 19. Muscovites Return Home 20. State Nationalism Critiques Viktor 21. Viktor’s Penance 22. Lyudmila and Zhenya 23. The Lubyanka in Moscow 24. Viktor Meets with Chepyzkhin 25. Viktor’s Debate 26. Marya Walks Away 27. The Resolution Against Viktor Stalingrad Liberated (711-745) Darensky Protects a German POW Darensky Meets with Novikov Alexandra Vladimirovna’s Poverty Paulus’ Stone Age Soldiers Paulus’ Headquarters Chalb and Lenhard Bach’s Regrets as he Eyes the Russian Line “We’ve Become Camp Beasts” Christmas Trees Stumpfe’s Summit Bach’s Russian Woman Homework:
4	17	Day 2	Tues.
	Gen. Paulus Surrenders		Moscow Winter 1942 (746-806) Zhenya at the Lubyanka Viktor’s Anxieties Stalin’s Phone Call Kyrmov’s Interrogation Krymov Never Renounces Zhenya Paulus Awaits Capture The Soul of Wartime Stalingrad Was Free Smiling Schmidt Makhorca “There, have something to eat” Homework:
4	18	Day 3	Wed.
4	19	Day 4	Thurs.
			Viktor’s Submission (806- 840) Novikov’s Choice Zhenya’s Letter Novikov Recalled to Moscow Viktor’s ‘Triumph’ Viktor’sAffair with Marya Viktor Meets Shishakov Viktor’s Collapse In the Gulag (841- 865) The Gulag Becomes the State Zhenya’s Parcel Spiridinov’s Family Spiridinov’s Transfer Fate and the Human Being  Spring Homework: Essay on Life and Fate
4	20	Day 5	Fri.
4	23	Day 6	Mon.
	Some of the cast of Radio 4's dramatisation of Life and Fate. Front row: Ellie Kendrick, Kenneth Branagh and Greta Scacchi as members of the Shtrum family. Back: Nigel Anthony and Harriet Walter as Pyotor Sokolov and his wife.		Essay on Life and Fate total due by 3:30 p.m.  Life and Fate: The Radio Series : (BBC Radio 4) adapted by Mike Walker and Jonathan Myerson starring Kenneth Branagh and David Tennant 1. Viktor and Lyudmila (1:00) 2. Anna's Letter (56:00) 3. Zhenya and Krymov (1:10) 4. Vera and Her Pilot (1:52) 5. Journey: Poland (2:06) 6. Arbachuk and the Gulag (2:49) 7. Building 6/1 8. Lt. Peter Bach 9. Novikov's Story (4:00) 10. Hero of the Soviet Union (4:44) 11. Krymov in the Lubiyanka (4:57) 12. Fortress Stalingrad (5:40) 13. Viktor and the Academy (6:35)
4	24	Day 7	Tues.
4	25	Day 8	Wed.
			Class Selection: Sokolov’s Salon in Kazan: 62.  Viktor’s Problems with The Theory 63.  Sokolov’s Salon 64. The Salon on Literature Life and Fate Adaptation
4	26	Day 9	Thurs.
4	27	Day10	Fri.
			Revision: Life and Fate Adaptation
4	30	Day 1	Mon.
			Rehearsal: Life and Fate Adaptation
5	1	Day 2	Tues.
			Tape: Life and Fate Adaptation
5	2	Day 3	Wed.
5	3	Day 4	Thurs.
			Tape: Life and Fate Adaptation Homework: Remnick on Gorbachev (1991) and  Tolstaya on 1991 (1997)
5	4	Day 5	Fri.
5	7	Day 6	Mon.
	Mikhail Gorbachev (1988) Boris Yeltsin (1991)		Timeline: Gorbachev and Yeltsin Amid Protests, Putin Returns to Presidency in Russia (NY Times 5-7-12) Remnick on Gorbachev (1991) Lenin's Tomb The Return of History = Possibility of Reform Gorbachev vs. Hardliners The Katyn Massacres Gorbachev's Career The Socialist "Alternative": Bukharin and Krushchev (socialism with a human face) The End of Socialism in Russia Gorbachev in Lithuania The 1991 August Coup Attempt Revolution Day Speech of 1987: Gorbachev on the Idea of Socialism Tolstaya on 1991 (1997) St. Petersburg 1997 Moscow is Richer 1991 Meeting at Belovezhsky Pushche Mafiosi Meeting Solzhenitsyn and Gorbachev Ethnic War Return of Communism? Homework:  Ash on 1991-1999 Tolstaya on Yeltsin (1994)
5	8	Day 7	Tues.
5	9	Day 8	Wed.
	Solidarity Rally with Lech Walesa in Poland Vaclav Havel, 1st President of the Czech Republic Yeltsin OrdersArmy to Fire on the  Russian Legislature (1993)		Timeline: Gorbachev and Yeltsin Mapping the Fall of Communism (1989-1991) (BBC) Ash on 1991-1999 The Sinatra Doctrine Crisis of The Left The Third Way: "refolution" Globalization and Marx: economic interdependence The Western Model :  free market economy, democracy, and the rule of law East German Debt : hidden weaknesses of the communist states Why no blood?: Warsaw vs. "Tiananmen" Historiography : The End of History? Non-revolutionary revolution : Means not Ends Privatization of the Nomenklatura : Comprimise Lustration vs. a truth commission Summary Tolstaya on Yeltsin (1994) Demolishing Russia Power Struggle Americans vs. Russians The People's Czar February 1991 Speech August 1991: Attempted Coup October 1993: Tanks Fire on Parliament Homework: Cohen, Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War (2009) Chapter 6: Gorbachev's Lost Legacies
5	10	Day 9	Thurs.
5	11	Day10	Fri.
			Cohen, Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War (2009) Chapter 6: Gorbachev's Lost Legacies Gorbachev's Historic Goals American Triumphalism Modernization Through Catastrophe vs. Gorbachev's Reforms : glasnost; elections; legislature; new governing elite Smuta: 1917=1991 Yeltsin's Neo-Bolshevism Economic Collapse: 1992=1928 the first post-Soviet ruling elite Putin: career secret policemen Shock Therapy: the Pinochet syndrome The New Cold War Homework: Merridale’s Haunted by Stalin Pipes’ Flight From Freedom
5	14	Day 1	Mon.
	Vladimir Putin		Merridale’s Haunted by Stalin (2009) The State of History in Russia Today: ‘The highest good in Muscovy was not knowledge but memory.’ In a society where argument and democratic give and take have little purchase, the authority of precedent, of control over the past (and, by implication, over the direction of the future) plays a crucial part in conferring political legitimacy. Experiencing glasnost as a student the collapse of the Soviet state economic crisis thesis formal scholarship: access to archives Memorial during the 1990's vs. patriotic war no Truth and Reconciliation Commission New Patriotism: Nostalgia for Imperial Russia: 1612 sacerdotal nationalism:  the new slavophilism textbooks and bookstores Stalin's ghost Pipes’ Flight From Freedom (2004) Thesis Deja Vu Rejecting Rights Estrangement Democracy is a fraud freedom  or order connections rule Of Two Minds foreign affairs paranoia Putin Homework:  The Economist: The Russian Intelligentsia
5	15	Day 2	Tues.
	Anna Politkovskaya (1958-2006) Amy Knight, Who Killed Anna Politkovskaya? NYRB November 6, 2008		The Economist: The Russian Intelligentsia (2008) (written on the occasion of Alexandre Solzhenitsyn's death) The Gulag Archipelago Russia Today Herzen's intelligentsia vs. today's the Bolshevik intelligentsia the physicists perestroika : the lost opportunity economic collapse Putin and the Viktor Shtrum syndrome the letter for Khodorovsky Anna Politkovskaya and silence Homework: Essay on Russia’s Future.
5	16	Day 3	Wed
5	17	Day 4	Thurs.
5	18	Day 5	Fri.	Senior Exams
			Essay on Russia’s Future due at exam time.
5	21	Day 6	Mon.
5	22	Day 7	Tues.
5	23	Day 8	Wed.
5	24	Day 9	Thurs.
5	25	Day10	Fri.
5	28	Day 0	Mon.	Memorial Day
5	29	Day1	Tues.
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1/	18	Day5	Wed	EXAMS
1/	19	Day6	Thurs.	EXAMS
1/	20	Day7	Fri.	EXAMS
1/	23	Day8	Mon.	EXAMS Make Up Day
1/	24	Day9	Tues.
1/	25	Day 10	Wed