HIST 379 - Russia After Stalin

Credits: (3)
College Curriculum: COLL 200
Domain (Anchored): CSI
Domain (Reaching Out): ALV

This course will examine Soviet and post-Soviet history after the death of Stalin in 1953. It will cover Stalinism and the legacy of Stalin, the rise of Khrushchev and attempts to modify or transform the Soviet system in economic, political and cultural terms, and the rise and fall of Gorbachev and his and Yeltsin’s attempts to transform Soviet society and culture. Special focus will be on the tumultuous years of glasnost’ and perestroika in the late 1980s. The Putin era’s descent into authoritarianism, and the fate of History in the post-Soviet era will also be examined.