| 1 | Introduction to the Course | |
| 2 | The Setting: Tsarism | |
| 3 | The Revolutionary Tradition | |
| 4 | The Revolutions of 1917 | |
| 5 | The Civil War | |
| 6 | The Crisis of War Communism & the Shift to NEP | |
| 7 | Defining Bolshevism | |
| | Film: "Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks" | First Paper Due in Class |
| 8 | The Politics and Economics of NEP | |
| 9 | The Great Break: Collectivization & Industrialization | |
| 10 | The New Economy | |
| 11 | Purge and Terror | |
| 12 | World War II | |
| 13 | The Origins of the Cold War | |
| | Film: "Cranes are Flying" | Second Paper Due in Class |
| 14 | The Khrushchev Years: Thaw and Social Change | |
| 15 | The Brezhnev Era: Politics and Economics | |
| 16 | The Brezhnev Era: Social Change | |
| 17 | Gorbachev's Political Revolution | |
| 18 | Nationalism | |
| 19 | Collapse of the Soviet Union | |
| 20 | New Russia Emerges, 1991-1993 | |
| | | Third Paper Due in Class |
| 21 | From Yeltsin to Putin, 1993-2001 | |
| 22 | Contemporary Russia | |
