220100 Landmarks of the British-American Historiography of the Russian Revolutions, February and October of 1917 (S) (SoSe 2012)

This advanced undergraduate/graduate seminar is designed to introduce students to some of the major historical, historiographical, and conceptual issues related
to Russia’s most famous revolutions – the overthrow of the old regime in February and the seizure of power by the Bolsheviks in October of 1917. Students will read and discuss standard English-language works in political, intellectual, social and cultural history, in loose chronological order, and write short weekly book reports.

Literaturangaben

Malia, Martin. The Soviet Tragedy: A History of Socialism in Russia, 1917-1991.
Suny, Ronald Grigor. The Soviet Experiment: Russia, the USSR, and the Successor States.
Kenez, Peter. A history of the Soviet Union from the Beginning to the End. Cambridge UP, 2006.
Keep, John. Last of the Empires: A History of the Soviet Union, 1945-1991. Oxford, 1995.