HIST 29615 - Colloquium:Soviet History from the Archives

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University of Chicago

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After the opening of the Soviet archives at the beginning of the 1990s, many archival documents were published for the first time in English. Using these documentary publications as a base, supplemented by memoirs and files of the U.S. State Department and British Foreign Office, this colloquium develops historical research skills, with particular reference to critical evaluation of sources and evidence and the framing of research topics. Topics include the Russian Revolutions of 1917, Lenin's rule, the Russian peasantry and the collectivization of agriculture, Stalin' s rule, Soviet everyday life in the 1930s, the Comintern, and Stalinist repression and the Gulag . S. Fitzpatrick. Winter.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

WWW.UCHICAGO.EDU

Phone Number:

(773) 702-1234

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Quarter

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