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Soviet Union, rise and fall
[I do not regularly offer this course.
It is more regularly offered by Professor Julie Hessler.
However, I do sometimes provide individualized instruction on this topic.]
 | Russian Marxism and the revolutionary movements prior to 1917 |
| The revolutionary year 1917 |
| The revolutionary Civil War (1918-1921) |
| The New Economic Policy (1921-1927) |
| Stalinism (1928-1938): Agricultural Collectivization, rapid industrialization,
"Socialist Realism", and purge trials |
| World War Two (1939-1945) |
| The Cold War, first phase (1946-1953) |
| De-Stalinization, "Thaw", the Khrushchev reforms (1953-1964) |
| The Cold War, second phase (1965-1975) |
| Era of Brezhnev and stagnation (1975-1985) |
| Gorbachev and Perestroika (1985-1991) |
| Collapse and the Yeltsin era (1992-1999) |
| And then..... |
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