HIST 388: Topics in European History

HIST 388-004: Stalinism
(Spring 2015)

01:30 PM to 02:45 PM MW

Enterprise Hall 275

Section Information for Spring 2015

Josef Stalin. The name alone strikes fear. This course will examine Joseph Stalin, one of the bloodiest dictators in human history, and Stalinism, the political, economic, social, and cultural system that bears his name. From Vladimir Lenin’s death in 1924 until Stalin’s death in 1953, the Soviet Union underwent a radical and lethal revolutionary transformation, as the backward, defeated Russian Empire turned into the feared superpower victor of the Second World War and the primary U.S. opponent of the Cold War. Through rapid industrialization, forced collectivization of agriculture, famine, terror, war, and Cold War, the Soviet population and the populations of Eastern Europe suffered immensely. Many grew quite expectedly to hate Stalin and Stalinism, yet many others, including many of its victims, were (and many continue to be) enthusiastic supporters of the Stalinist system. The course will explore that seeming paradox and others to understand this man and his system that so dominated the history of the 20th century world.

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Course Information from the University Catalog

Credits: 3

Study of historical topics or periods of special interest. Notes: Topics announced in advance. May be repeated for credit when topic is different. May be repeated within the term.
Specialized Designation: Topic Varies
Schedule Type: Lec/Sem #1, Lec/Sem #2, Lec/Sem #3, Lec/Sem #4, Lec/Sem #5, Lec/Sem #6, Lec/Sem #7, Lec/Sem #8, Lec/Sem #9, Lecture, Sem/Lec #10, Sem/Lec #11, Sem/Lec #12, Sem/Lec #13, Sem/Lec #14, Sem/Lec #15, Sem/Lec #16, Sem/Lec #17, Sem/Lec #18
Grading:
This course is graded on the Undergraduate Regular scale.

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