3- 18 September
3 Sep: “The Russian State & Modernization”
- Khlevniuk, 1-9
- Hoffman, 9-16
8 Sep: “Russia’s Revolutionary Traditions”
- Hoffman, 16-25
- Gary Saul Morson, “The God that Flickered,” New Criterion (June 2020) [Recommended, not required]
10 Sep: “A Party of ‘a New Type:'” Marxism-Leninism & the RSDLP(b)”
- Khlevniuk, 11-42
- Communist Manifesto [entire document]
15 Sep: “A Party of ‘a New Type:'” Marxism-Leninism & the RSDLP(b),” pt. 2
- Khlevniuk, 42-53
17 Sep: “Passage through Armageddon: Russia’s Great War, Revolution & Civil War”
- Khlevniuk, 53-68
- Hoffman, 21-35