22 September – 14 October
22 Sep: “Organs of the New Order”
- Readings on the Red Terror
24 Sep: “Stalin as Nationalities Commissar” (pt. 1)
- Khlevniuk, 68-81
29 Sep: “Stalin as Nationalities Commissar” (pt. 2)
- Hoffman, 66-74
1 Oct: “Stalin as General Secretary”
- Khlevniuk, 81-99
6 Oct: “The Great Break”
- Khlevniuk, 100-122
- Hoffman, 35-43
8 Oct: “The First Five-Year Plan”
- Hoffman, 44-80
- Gary Saul Morson, “Leninthink: On the Practice Behind the Theory of Marxism-Leninism,” New Criterion (October 2019) [Recommended, not required]
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13 Oct: COURSE EXAM #1