| Part One: Introduction |
| Week 1: What is a Revolution? |
| 1 | Introduction | (PDF) |
| 2 | Recitation: definitions of revolution |
| Part Two: Inventing the People |
| Weeks 2-4: Athenian Revolution |
| 3 | Introduction to inventing the people | (PDF - 3.4 MB) |
| 4 | Oligarchy, democracy, and tyranny: 600-400 BC | (PDF) |
| 6 | The emergence of the Athenian demos: 594 BC | (PDF) |
| 7 | Popular action and constitutional reform: 508/7 BC | (PDF) |
| 9 | Democracy top to bottom: 462-450 BC | (PDF) |
| Weeks 5-6: Atlantic Revolutions |
| 12 | French Revolution | (PDF - 7.3 MB) |
| 14 | Haitian Revolution | (PDF - 4.8 MB) |
| Part Three: Inventing the Modern State |
| Weeks 7-8: Russian Revolution |
| 16 | Introduction to inventing the modern state: empires, states, and peoples in Russia and China | (PDF) |
| 17 | Russia's ancien regime; 19th century revolutionary traditions; the Revolution of 1905 | (PDF) |
| 19 | 1917: the Bolshevik seizure of power | (PDF - 2.5 MB) |
| 20 | The Bolsheviks consolidate their rule; the end of revolution? 1917-1926 | (PDF - 4.2 MB) |
| Weeks 9-11: Chinese Revolution |
| 22 | The Qing dynasty and Western imperialism | (PDF) |
| 23 | The collapse of the Qing and creation of the Republic, 1911-1927 | (PDF) |
| 25 | The Nationalist Party and the War of Resistance against Japan | (PDF - 1.6 MB) |
| 26 | The Communist Party, the Yenan way, and the Civil War, 1927-1949 | (PDF) |
| 28 | The Maoist era, 1949-1976; reform and the end of revolution? | (PDF) |
