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READINGS for RUSSIA SINCE 1900

• "Prisoner of the Caucuses" by Lev Tolstoy

Worksheet 1 (for And Quiet Flows the Don by Mikhail Sholokhov, Parts I & II)

• Optional Reading: "The Russian God: Vodka Celebrates its 500th Anniversary" by Victor Erofeyev in The New Yorker

• "A Little Jewish Girl in the Russian Pale, 1890" by Mary Antin

• Excerpts from "What is to be Done?" by V. I. Lenin

• The October Manifesto (1905)

• "1905 Pogroms in Russia" by Julia Mazelev

• "'Potemkin' Restored to Uncensored Glory"

• "The Story of an Assassination" by Marie Sukloff

• "Krylov vs. Krylova: 'Sexual Incapacity' and Divorce in Tsarist Russia" by Gregory L. Freeze

• "An Epidemic of Possession in a Moscow Rural Parish in 1909" by Christine D. Worobec

Worksheet 2 (for And Quiet Flows the Don by Mikhail Sholokhov, Parts III & IV)

• Optional Reading: "Nicholas in Hell" by Elizabeth Jones Hemenway

• Optional Reading: "Rasputin and the Empress Alexandra" by Bernard Pares; "Lenin Gambled Wildly and Won" by Robert V. Daniels; and "The Bolshevik Party Led the Masses" by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

• Declaration of the Rights of the Toiling and Exploited Peoples

• "Anti-Soviet Svodki from the Civil War: Surveillance as a Shared Feature of Russian Political Culture" by Peter Holquist

• Excerpts from "The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky" (1918) by V. I. Lenin

• "Theses on Communist Morality in the Sphere of Marital Relations" by Alexandra Kollontai

• "Russia's Holy Warriors" by Jeffrey Tayler

• "Stalinism as Revolution from Above" by Robert Tucker

• Optional Reading: "Stalin, Man of the Borderlands" by Alfred Rieber

• "Should This Pulitzer be Pulled?" by Douglas McCollam

• "Fear and Belief in the USSR’s 'Great Terror'" by R. W. Thurston

• Optional Reading: "What is Terror?" by Robert Conquest & Thurston’s "Reply"

• Stalin as Time's "Man of the Year" 1939 & 1942

• Excerpt from Through the Burning Steppe by Elena Kozhina

• Excerpts from A Revolution of Their Own: Voices of Women in Soviet History:

• Part 1
• Part 2
• Part 3

• Excerpts from the 1947 speeches of Andrei Zhdanov and President Harry Truman

Worksheet 3

• Optional Reading: excerpts from One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by A. Solzhenitsyn and Not By Bread Alone by Vladimir Dudintsev

• Khrushchev as Time's "Man of the Year" 1957

• "Fiasco in Riazan Oblast" from Khrushchev: The Years in Power by Roy Medvedev & Zhores Medvedev

• "Bloody Saturday: Novocherkassk, 1962"

• "Gorbachev: From High Hopes to the Bitter End" from Why Lenin?  Why Stalin?  Why Gorbachev? by Theodore von Laue

• Gorbachev as Time's "Man of the Year" 1987 & 1989

• Optional Reading: "Whither Human Rights in Russia?": Statement of Ludmilla Alexeyeva, Chair, Moscow Helsinki Group

• "Russia is Finished" by Jeffrey Tayler and "Don't Count Russia Out: A Reply to Jeffrey Tayler" by W. George Krasnow