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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