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Official Course
Description: MCCCD Approval: 6-24-2008 |
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HIS275
2009 Spring – 2009 Fall |
LEC 3.0
Credit(s) 3.0 Period(s) 3.0 Load Acad |
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Russia
and the Soviet Union in the 20th Century to Present |
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Survey of the principal political, military, economic,
social, and cultural developments in the Soviet Union from the Communist
seizure of power in 1917 to the present. Includes a brief review of the
geography, politics, and culture of pre-1917 Russia as a background. Prerequisites: None. |
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MCCCD
Official Course Competencies: |
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HIS275 2009
Spring – 2009 Fall |
Russia and the Soviet Union in the 20th Century to Present
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Identify and locate on a map the principal geographic
features of the Soviet Union. (I) |
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Describe, in general terms, the history of czarist Russia
in the last decades of the 19th century. (II) |
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3.
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Compare and contrast the variants of Marxism, with
specific reference to Germany and Russia before World War I. (II) |
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4.
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List and explain the forces which led to the revolutions
of 1905 and 1917. (II) |
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List the reasons which led to the creation of the New
Economic Policy (NEP). (III) |
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Compare and
contrast the personalities and policies of Stalin and Trotsky, with specific
reference to the political climate of the early 1920s. (III) |
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7.
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Describe
Stalin's industrialization policy in the late 1920s and early 1930s, with
specific reference to the party and military purges. (III) |
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8.
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List the salient characteristics that made up Stalin's
cultural and foreign policy prior to World War II. (III) |
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Describe the major forces in World War II that contributed
to Stalin's post WWII domestic and foreign policy. (IV) |
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Compare and contrast the Khrushchev and Brezhnev eras. (V)
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List and explain the forces that led to the rise of
Gorbachev and the subsequent coup. (V) |
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List and explain the forces that led to the rise and fall
of Yeltsin, 1991-1999. (V) |
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MCCCD
Official Course Outline: |
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HIS275 2009
Spring – 2009 Fall |
Russia and the Soviet Union in the 20th Century to Present
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I. Geography of the Russian
Federation A. Political boundaries 1. With other countries 2. The former republics B. Political boundaries pre
1917 C. Physical geography 1. Climate 2. Soil and natural
resources II. Czarist Russia (pre
1917) A. The autocracy B. Slavophilism
and the intelligentsia C. Marxism D. The revolution of 1905 E. Stolypin
F. Rasputin's influence,
1905-1916 G. World War I's impact H
The 1917 revolutions III. The Soviet Union
between the world wars A. The Civil War B. NEP C. The death of Lenin D. Stalin, Trotsky and
struggle for leadership E. Industrialization F. The purges G. Cultural and foreign
policy H. Collectivization and
famines IV. World War II A. Hitler-Stalin pact B. War strategy C. Yalta-Potsdam-Teheran
conferences V. Post World War II A. Warsaw Pact B. Khrushchev era C. Brezhnev era D. The rise of Gorbachev E. The coup and Yeltsin F. Putin 1. Remilitarization 2. Rising fuel wealth 3. Renewed state control of
key industries 4. Increased hostility with
the West G. Term Limits - Dimitry Medvedev and the next Leaders of Russia |