Modern Russia: the rise and fall of Soviet power
Ian Cummins
8 points * 2 lectures and 1 tutorial per week * First semester * Clayton
This subject will examine the origins, course and impact of the Russian revolutions of 1917. It will then focus on the rise and evolution of the Soviet regime, principally in the eras of Lenin and Stalin, and consider the causes of the end of the Soviet order in 1991.
Assessment
Written (4000 words): 60% * Examination (2 hours): 30% * Class participation/attendance: 10%
Prescribed texts
Carr E H The Russian Revolution from Lenin to Stalin, 1917-1929 Macmillan, 1980
Christian D Power and privilege: Russia and the Soviet Union in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries Pitman, 1986
Fitzpatrick S The Russian Revolution OUP, 1983
Hosking G A history of the Soviet Union Fontana, 1985
Schapiro L The Communist Party of the Soviet Union Methuen, 1970
Siegelbaum L Soviet state and society between revolutions, 1918-1929 Cambridge UP, 1992
White S After Gorbachev 4th edn, Cambridge UP, 1993
Recommended texts
Kochan L and Abraham R The making of modern Russia Pelican, 1990
Merridale C and Ward C Perestroika: The historical perspective Edward Arnold, 1991
Nove A Stalinism and after Allen and Unwin, 1975
Tucker R C The Lenin anthology Norton, 1980
Wilson E To the Finland station Fontana, 1988