Maricopa Community Colleges  HIS275   19946-20086 
Official Course Description: MCCCD Approval: 03/22/94
HIS275 19946-20086 LEC 3 Credit(s) 3 Period(s)
Soviet Union and Slavic World
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:
 
HIS275   19946-20086 Soviet Union and Slavic World
1. Identify and locate on a map the principal geographic features of the Soviet Union. (I)
2. Describe, in general terms, the history of czarist Russia in the last decades of the 19th century. (II)
3. Compare and contrast the variants of Marxism, with specific reference to Germany and Russia before World War I. (II)
4. List and explain the forces which led to the revolutions of 1905 and 1917. (II)
5. List the reasons which led to the creation of the New Economic Policy (NEP). (III)
6. Compare and contrast the personalities and policies of Stalin and Trotsky, with specific reference to the political climate of the early 1920s. (III)
7. Describe Stalin's industrialization policy in the late 1920s and early 1930s, with specific reference to the party purges. (III)
8. List the salient characteristics that made up Stalin's cultural and foreign policy prior to World War II. (III)
9. Describe the major forces in World War II that contributed to Stalin's post WWII domestic and foreign policy. (IV)
10. Compare and contrast the Khruschev and Brezhnev eras. (V)
11. List and explain the forces that led to the rise of Gorbechev and the subsequent coup. (V)
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HIS275   19946-20086 Soviet Union and Slavic World
    I. Geography of the Soviet Union
        A. Political boundaries
          1. With other countries
          2. The 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. The 1917 revolution
        III. The Soviet Union between the world wars
            A. The Civil War
            B. NEP
            C. Stalin and Trotsky
            D. Industrialization
            E. The purges
            F. Cultural and foreign policy
          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. Khruschev era
                C. Brezhnev era
                D. The rise of Gorbechev
                E. The coup and Yeltsin
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