RUSS 50.03 Twentieth-Century Russia

An examination of major developments and problems in twentieth-century Russian history with particular attention to the consequences of the October Revolution, Leninism, civil war and its impact, politics and society during the New Economic Policy of the 1920s, the formation of the Stalinist system and its historical legacy, the Krushchev era, the Brezhnev years of “stagnation,” Gorbachev’s perestroika and the problems of transition to a law based on democratic and open market system of the Russian Federation, the successor state to the Soviet Union. Open to all classes.

Instructor

Finkel

Cross Listed Courses

HIST 056

Degree Requirement Attributes

Dist:SOC; WCult:W

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