560.syllabus

Problems in the History of the Soviet Union

Course Format

The course is designed to provide students with the opportunity to read and discuss key works on selected problems in the history of the Soviet Union. Readings are organized thematically, but within each theme, selections will include some classical treatments of the topic, current standard treatments of the topic, and other readings that are methodologically or interpretively innovative. The goal is to provide students in the seminar with an exposure to some of the most important problems and historiographies of the history of the USSR. A secondary goal is to provide students with the experience of writing scholarly papers in several different genres.

The course will consist of weekly discussions based on a set of common readings, supplemented by additional recommended readings. Common readings are indicated by an asterisk (*). All students are expected to complete both the common readings and some of the additional readings, and to participate actively in class discussion. Each week, one student will be responsible for preparing a set of discussion questions (provided the week before the class), and a ten-minute presentation of the week's readings (common and recommended), focusing on the main issues and problems of the week's theme: the presentation should provoke the other students to engage in discussion of the key common themes introduced by the readings; it should not be a summary of the readings. That student will also write up these remarks in an 8-10 page paper, due the day of the discussion.

In addition, three more papers will be required. Two will be on the following types of works: (1) memoir or reportage (nonfiction), and (2) novels or films (fiction). In the first paper, due February 27, you will write a scholarly introduction, of a minimum of ten pages, to one book (or film) from one type. In the second paper, due May 1, you will write a review essay on 2 or 3 works of the second type, with a maximum of twenty pages. In both cases, you are writing for a historical audience: your task is to treat the memoirs, reportage, novels, or films as historical sources and historical work, focusing on the ways in which the work(s) help to understand the period or problem they concern. (Such essays, of course, cannot be written without further reading in and discussion of scholarly treatments of the topic. These are historiographical essays with a twist.) The third paper, due March 27, will be a 500-750 word scholarly book review of a new work in Soviet history, of your choice. A bibliography of appropriate works will be circulated; each book can be claimed by one student only.

Most of the required articles and chapters will be available on electronic reserve, some on physical reserve. You may also wish to purchase some or more of the books through on-line booksellers or used book sellers.

Course Outline 2017

Week 1 (January 19): Mobilization

Course goals and assignment of discussions.

Week 2 (January 26): Revolution and Civil War: Method and Myth

*Alexander Rabinowitch, The Bolsheviks Come to Power (1976), chap. 16, "Epilogue," 305-314, 356-57.

*Diane Koenker, Moscow Workers and the 1917 Revolution (1981), chap. 6. "Dimensions of Political Attitudes: Workers' Resolutions," 228-268, and conclusion, 356-367. To be available privately from author. Also on physical reserve.

*Sheila Fitzpatrick, "The Civil War as Formative Experience," Bolshevik Culture: Experiment and Order in the Russian Revolution, ed. Abbott Gleason, Peter Kenez, and Richard Stites (1985), 57-76.

*V.P. Buldakov, "Scholarly Passions around the Myth of 'Great October': Results of the Past Decade," Kritika, vol. 2, no. 2, Spring 2001 (new series), pp. 295-305.

*Peter Holquist, Making War, Forging Revolution: Russia's Continuum of Crisis, 1914-1921 (2002), chap. 5, "Forging a Social Movement," 143-165, 325-329.

*Aaron Retish, Russia's Peasants in Revolution and Civil War: Citizenship, Identity, and the Creation of the Soviet State, 1914-1922 (2008), chap. 3: "Peasant and Nation in Revolution," 95-129.

William Chamberlin, The Russian Revolution, vol. 1 (1935), chaps. 4, 5, 8, 9, 12, 14; vol. 2 (1935), chaps. 25, 40.

E. H. Carr, The Bolshevik Revolution, vol. 2 (1952), chap. 17.

Robert V. Daniels, Red October (1967), chap. 11.

William G. Rosenberg, Liberals in the Russian Revolution (1974).

Stephen F. Cohen, Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution (1974), chap. 3.

Alexander Rabinowitch, The Bolsheviks Come to Power (1976), chap. 15, "The Bolsheviks Come to Power," 273-304, 354-356.

S. A. Smith, Red Petrograd: Revolution in the Factories (1983).

Israel Getzler, Kronstadt: 1917-1921 (1983).

Donald Raleigh, Revolution on the Volga (1986).

S. V. Iarov, Gorozhanin kak politik: revoliutsiia i voennyi kommunizm glazami petrogradtsev 1917-1921 gg (1997)

Frederick Corney, "Rethinking a Great Event: The October Revolution as Memory Project," Social Science History, 22:4 (Winter 1998), 389-411.

Orlando Figes and Boris Kolonitskii, Interpreting the Russian Revolution: The Languages and Symbols of 1917 (1999), chap. 2.

Rex Wade, The Russian Revolution, 1917 (2000)

Mark D. Steinberg, Voices of Revolution, 1917 (2001), introduction

Donald Raleigh, Experiencing Russia's Civil War: Politics, Society, and Revolutionary Culture in Saratov, 1917-1922 (2002), chaps. 4 and 11.

Jeff Sahadeo, Russian Colonial Society in Tashkent, 1865-1923 (2007), chap. 7: "Exploiters or Exploited? Russian Workers and Colonial Rule, 1917-1918", pp. 187-207.

Sarah Badcock, Politics and the People in Revolutionary Russia: A Provincial History (2007).

Mark D. Steinberg, The Russian Revolution, 1905-1921 (2017).

Week 3 (February 2): The Years of the New Economic Policy

*Stephen Cohen, Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution : A Political Biography, 1888-1938 (1974), chap. 5, "Rethinking Bolshevism," 123-159, 414-421.

*Lewis H. Siegelbaum, Soviet State and Society between Revolutions, 1918-1929 (1992). chap. 3, "The Perils of Retreat and Recovery," 85-134, 241-250.

*Katerina Clark, Petersburg: Crucible of Cultural Revolution (1995), chap. 6, "NEP and the 'Art of Capitulation,'" 143-161, 333-337, chap. 8, "The Establishment of Soviet Culture," 183-200, 342-346.

*Anne E. Gorsuch, Youth In Revolutionary Russia: Enthusiasts, Bohemians, Delinquents (2000), chap. 4: "Excesses of Enthusiasm," 80-95, 212-217

*Diane P. Koenker, Republic of Labor: Russian Printers and Soviet Socialism, 1918-1930 (2005), chap. 5: "The Working People's Democracy," 143-174. Available from author.

Alexander Erlich, The Soviet Industrialization Debate, 1924-1928 (1960).

Alan Ball, "Private Trade and Traders during NEP," in Sheila Fitzpatrick, Alexander Rabinowitch, and Richard Stites, eds., Russia in the Era of NEP (1991), 89-105.

Igal Halfin, From Darkness to Light: Class, Consciousness, and Salvation in Revolutionary Russia (2000), chap. 4: "The Making of the 'New Intelligentsia'," 205-82.

N. B. Lebina and A. N. Chistikov, Obyvatel' i reformy: kartiny povsednevnoi zhizni gorozhan (2003)

Elizabeth A. Wood, Performing Justice: Agitation Trials in Early Soviet Russia (2005).

Kenneth Pinnow, Lost to the Collective: Suicide and the Promise of Soviet Socialism, 1921-1929 (2009).

Week 4 (February 9): Women and Men

*Diane P. Koenker, "Men Against Women on the Shop Floor in NEP Russia: Gender and Class in the Socialist Workplace," American Historical Review, vol. 100, no. 5 (December 1995), 1438-64.

*Elizabeth A. Wood, The Baba and the Comrade: Gender and Politics in Revolutionary Russia (1997), chap. 1: "The Bolsheviks and the Geneology of the Woman Question," 13-48, 225-234.

*Eric Naiman, Sex in Public: The Incarnation of Early Soviet Ideology (1997), chap. 5: "NEP as Female Complaint (I): The Tragedy of Woman," 181-207."/p>

*Eliot Borenstein, Men without Women: Masculinity and Revolution in Russian Fiction, 1917-1929 (2000), Introduction: "Brothers and Comrades," 1-41, 277-289.

*Dan Healey, Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia: The Regulation of Sexual and Gender Dissent (2001), chap. 7: "'Can a Homosexual Be a Member of the Communist Party?'" pp. 181-204, 328-336.

*Douglas Northrop, Veiled Empire: Gender and Power in Stalinist Central Asia (2004), chap 1: "Embodying Uzbekistan," 33-68.

Rudolf Schlesinger, Changing Attitudes in Soviet Russia: The Family in the USSR (1949).

Wendy Goldman, Women, the State, and Revolution: Soviet Family Policy and Social Life, 1917-1936 (1993), chap. 6.

Barbara Clements, Bolshevik Women (1997), chap. 4: "The civil war."

Susan E. Reid, "All Stalin's Women: Gender and Power in Soviet Art of the 1930s," Slavic Review 57:1 (Spring 1998), 133-73.

David Hoffmann, Stalinist Values: The Cultural Norms of Soviet Modernity, 1917-1941 (2003), chap. 3: "Stalinist Family Values."

Frances Bernstein, The Dictatorship of Sex: Lifestyle Advice for the Soviet Masses (2007), chap. 1: "Disciplining the Sex Question in Revolutionary Russia."

Elena Shulman, Stalinism on the Frontier of Empire: Women and State Formation in the Soviet Far East (2008).

E. Thomas Ewing, "If the Teacher Was a Man: Masculinity and Power in Stalinist Schools," Gender and History, vol. 21, no. 1 (2009): 107-129.

Week 5 (February 16): Subjectivities, Identities, and Class

*Sheila Fitzpatrick, "Ascribing Class: The Construction of Social Identity in Soviet Russia," Journal of Modern History, 65:4 (December 1993), 745-770.

*Anna Krylova, "The Tenacious Liberal Subject in Soviet Studies," Kritika, New Series. 1:1 (Winter 2000): 119-146.

*Eric Naiman, "On Soviet Subjects and the Scholars Who Make Them," Russian Review, vol. 60, no. 3 (July 2001), 307-315.

*Diane P. Koenker, Republic of Labor: Russian Printers and Soviet Socialism, 1918-1930, (2005), chap. 6: "New Cultures of Class, " 175-211.

*Jochen Hellbeck, Revolution on My Mind: Writing a Diary under Stalin (2006), chap. 3: "Laboratories of the Soul," 53-114, 377-386.

*Maria Cristina Galmarini-Kabala, The Right to Be Helped: Deviance, Entitlement, and the Soviet Moral Order (2016), chap. 2, "Invalids to Pensioners," pp. 47-78, 240-245.

Hiroaki Kuromiya, "The Crisis of Proletarian Identity in the Soviet Factory," Slavic Review 44:2 (Summer 1985), 280-297.

Lewis H. Siegelbaum, Stakhanovism and the Politics of Productivity in the USSR, 1935-1941 (1988), chap. 4: "Making of Stakhanovites."

Lewis H. Siegelbaum and Ronald Grigor Suny, "Class Backwards? In Search of the Soviet Working Class," in Making Workers Soviet: Power, Class, and Identity, ed. Lewis H. Siegelbaum and Ronald Grigor Suny (1994), 1-26.

Stephen Kotkin, Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilization (1995), chap. 5: "Speaking Bolshevik," 198-237

Igal Halfin, "Looking into the Oppositionists' Souls: Inquisition Communist Style," Russian Review 60:3 (July 2001), 316-339.

Golfo Alexopoulos, Stalin's Outcasts: Aliens, Citizens, and the Soviet State, 1926-1936 (2003), chap. 1

Week 6 (February 23): Cultural Revolutions (one-hour class, followed by Christine Evans's REEEC lecture at 4)

*Sheila Fitzpatrick, "Cultural Revolution as Class War," [1974] The Cultural Front: Power and Culture in Revolutionary Russia (1992), 115-148.

*Michael David-Fox, "What Is Cultural Revolution?" Russian Review, 58:2 (April 1999), 181-201; also Sheila Fitzpatrick response and David-Fox reply.

*Kristin Roth-Ey, Moscow Prime Time: How the Soviet Union Built the Media Empire That Lost the Cultural Cold War (2011), introduction: "Soviet Culture in the Media Age," 1-24.

Rene Fuelop-Miller, The Mind and Face of Bolshevism (1927), chap. 5: "The Bolshevik Monumental Style," 89-113.

Sheila Fitzpatrick, "The Soft Line on Culture and Its Enemies," [1973] The Cultural Front (1992), 91-114.

Katerina Clark, The Soviet Novel: History as Ritual (1981), chaps. 1, 2, 7, 8.

Richard Stites, Revolutionary Dreams (1989), part 2 (59-164).

Jeffrey Brooks, "Public and Private Values in the Soviet Press, 1921-1928," Slavic Review, 48:1 (Spring 1989), 16-35.

Mark Steinberg, Proletarian Imagination (2002), introduction, 1-20, and chap. 3, "The Proletarian 'I,'" 102-146.

Yuri Slezkine, "From Savages to Citizens: The Cultural Revolution in the Soviet Far North," Slavic Review, 51:1 (Spring 1992), 52-76; or Arctic Mirrors, chap. 7.

Katerina Clark, Moscow, the Fourth Rome: Stalinism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Evolution of Soviet Culture, 1931-1941 (2011), chaps. 3, 8.

Boris Groys, "The Art of Totality," in The Landscape of Stalinism:The Art and Ideology of Soviet Space, ed. Evgeny Dobrenko and Eric Naiman (2003), 96-122.

Adeeb Khalid, Making Uzbekistan: Nation, Empire, and Revolution in the Early USSR (2015), chap. 6, "A Revolution of the Mind," pp. 178-218.

Week 7 (March 2): Empire and Nations

*Yuri Slezkine, "The USSR as a Communal Apartment, or How a Socialist State Promoted Ethnic Particularism," Slavic Review 53:2 (Summer 1994), 414-452.

*Terry Martin, The Affirmative Action Empire: Nations and Nationalism in the Soviet Union, 1923-1939, (2001) chap. 1, "The Soviet Affirmative Action Empire," 1-27, and chap. 8, "Ethnic Cleansing and Enemy Nations," 311-343. On physical reserve.

*Francine Hirsch, Empire of Nations: Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union (2005), chap. 2: "The National Idea versus Economic Expediency," 62-98.

*Adeeb Khalid, "Backwardness and the Quest for Civilization: Early Soviet Central Asia in Comparative Perspective," Slavic Review, vol. 65, no. 2 (Summer 2006), 231-251.

*Anne E. Gorsuch, All This Is Your World: Soviet Tourism at Home and Abroad after Stalin (2011), chap. 2: "Estonia as the Soviet Abroad," 49-78.

*Erik R. Scott, Familiar Strangers: The Georgian Diaspora and the Evolution of Soviet Empire (2016), chap. 1, "An Empire of Diasporas," pp. 7-36, 260-268

Zvi Gitelman, Jewish Nationality and Soviet Politics (1972), chaps. 3, 5, 6, 7.

Aleksandr Nekrich, The Punished Peoples (1978).

Yuri Slezkine, Arctic Mirrors: Russia and the Small Peoples of the North (1994), chaps. 5, 9.

Mark von Hagen, "Does Ukraine Have a History?" Slavic Review, vol. 54, no. 3 (Fall 1995), 658-73.

David Brandenberger and A. M. Dubrovsky, "'The People Need a Tsar': the Emergence of National Bolshevism as Stalinist Ideology, 1931-1941," Europe-Asia Studies 50:5 (1998), 873-92.

Serhy Yekelchyk , Stalin's Empire of Memory : Russian-Ukrainian Relations in the Soviet Historical Imagination (2003).

Peter A. Blitstein, "Nation-Building or Russification? Obligatory Russian Instruction in the Soviet Non-Russian School," in Suny and Martin, eds. A State of Nations (2001), 253-74.

Douglas Northrop, Veiled Empire: Gender and Power in Stalinist Central Asia (2004), chap. 6: "With Friends Like These," 209-241.

Kate Brown, A Biography of No Place: from Ethnic Borderland to Soviet Heartland (2004).

Week 8 (March 9): Resistance

*Robert V. Daniels, The Conscience of the Revolution: Communist Opposition in Soviet Russia (1960), chap. 15: "Why the Opposition Failed," 398-412, 507.

*Lynne Viola, "Babyi bunty and Peasant Women's Protest during Collectivization," Russian Review, 45:1 (January 1986): 23-42.

*Stephen Kotkin, Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilization (1995), chap. 5: "Speaking Bolshevik," 198-237, 488-514.

*Jochen Hellbeck, "Speaking Out: Languages of Affirmation and Dissent in Stalinist Russia," Kritika 1, 1 (2000): 71-96.

*Robert Edelman, "A Small Way of Saying 'No': Moscow Working Men, Spartak Soccer, and the Communist Party, 1900-1945," American Historical Review 107:5 (December 2002), 1441-74.

*Vladimir A. Kozlov, "Introduction," in Sedition, ed. Kozlov, Fitzpatrick, Mironenko (2011), pp. 25-64, 337-349.

Moshe Lewin, "'Taking Grain': Soviet Policies of Agricultural Procurement before the War," Making of the Soviet System (1985), 142-77.

Sheila Fitzpatrick, Stalin's Peasants: Resistance and Survival in the Russian Village after Collectivization (1994), chap. 11: "The Mice and the Cat".

Lynne Viola, Peasant Rebels under Stalin: Collectivization and the Cultural of Peasant Resistance (1996), chap. 2.

Sarah Davies. Popular Opinion in Stalin's Russia: Terror, Propaganda and Dissent, 1934-1941 (1997), chap. 11: "Negative Representations of the Leader and Leader Cult," 168-82.

Jeffrey J. Rossman, "The Teikovo Cotton Workers' Strike of April 1932: Class, Gender and Identity Politics in Stalin's Russia," Russian Review. 56:1 (January 1997): 44-69.

Lynne Viola, "Popular Resistance in the Stalinist 1930s: Soliloquy of a Devil's Advocate," in Contending with Stalinism: Soviet Power and Popular Resistance in the 1930s, ed. Lynne Viola (2002), 17-43.

Dan Healey, "Sexual and Gender Dissent: Homosexuality as Resistance in Stalin's Russia," in Contending with Stalinism, ed. Viola (2002), 139-69.

Diane P. Koenker, Republic of Labor (2005), chap. 2: "The Struggle for a Communist Printers' Union, 1918-1922."

Week 9 (March 16): Terror

*Robert Conquest, The Great Terror ([1968], rev. ed.. 1990), chap. 3: "Architect of Terror," 53-70, 495-497.

*Robert C. Tucker, Stalin in Power: The Revolution from Above, 1928-1941 (1990), chap. 15: "The Forging of Autocracy I," 366-391, 652-655.

*Stephen Kotkin, Magnetic Mountain (1995), chap. 7: "Dizzy with Success," 280-354, 536-592.

*J. Arch Getty, "'Excesses Are Not Permitted': Mass Terror and Stalinist Governance in the Late 1930s," Russian Review 61:1 (January 2002), 113-38.

*Barry McLoughlin and Kevin McDermott, "Rethinking Stalinist Terror," in Stalin's Terror: High Politics and Mass Repression in the Soviet Union, ed. Barry McLoughlin and Kevin McDermott (2003), 1-18.

*Kate Brown, A Biography of No Place: From Ethnic Borderland to Soviet Heartland (2005), chap. 4: "The Power to Name", 118-33.

*Wendy Z. Goldman, Terror and Democracy in the Age of Stalin: The Social Dynamics of Repression (2007), Introduction (1-10); chap. 5: "Victims and Perpetrators", 163-203. (On physical reserve.)

Merle Fainsod, Smolensk under Soviet Rule (1958), chap. 11.

J. Arch Getty, The Origins of the Great Purges (1985).

Robert C. Tucker, Stalin in Power (1990), chaps. 12, 16, 17, 18.

Gabor Rittersporn, "The Omnipresent Conspiracy: On Soviet Imagery of Politics and Social Relations in the 1930s," in J. Arch Getty and Roberta T. Manning, eds., Stalinist Terror (1993), 99-115.

Stephen G. Wheatcroft, "More Light on the Scale of Repression and Excess Mortality in the Soviet Union in the 1930s," in Stalinist Terror, 275-290.

J. Arch Getty and Oleg V. Naumov, The Road to Terror: Stalin and the Self-Destruction of the Bolsheviks, 1932-1939 (1999).

Jochen Hellbeck, "Writing the Self in a Time of Terror: Alexander Afinogenov's Diary of 1937," Self and Story in Russian History. Ed. Laura Engelstein and Stephanie Sandler (2000), 69-93.

Oleg Khlevniuk, The History of the Gulag: From Collectivization to the Great Terror (2004).

Steven A. Barnes, Death and Redemption: The Gulag and the Shaping of Soviet Society (2011).

March 23 – No class – Spring Break

Week 10 (March 30): Everyday Life

*Nicholas S.Timasheff, The Great Retreat: The Growth and Decline of Communism in Russia (1946), chap. 10: "Population, Social Classes, Mores, and Morals," 285-326, 437-439.

*Alex Inkeles and Raymond Bauer, The Soviet Citizen: Daily Life in a Totalitarian Society (1968), chap. 8: "Patterns of Family Life," 189-209, 494-497.

*Deborah Field, "Irreconcilable Differences: Divorce and Conceptions of Private Life in the Khrushchev Era" Russian Review Vol. 57, No. 4 (1998), 599-613.

*Sheila Fitzpatrick, Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s (1999), chap. 4: "The Magic Tablecloth," 89-114, 244-248.

*Elena Osokina, Our Daily Bread : Socialist Distribution and the Art of Survival in Stalin's Russia, 1927-1941 (2001). part 2, chap. 6: "The Hierarchy of Poverty," pp. 82-101; part 3. On physical reserve.

*Susan E. Reid, "Everyday Aesthetics in the Khrushchev-Era Standard Apartment," Etnofoor vol. 24, no. 2, Taste (2012): 78-105.

Vladimir Shlapentokh, Love, Marriage and Friendship in the Soviet Union: Ideals and Practices( 1984).

Svetlana Boym, "Living in Common Places: The Communal Apartment," in Boym, Common Places: Mythologies of Everyday Life in Russia (1994), 121-67.

Nancy Ries, Russian Talk: Culture and Conversation during Perestroika (1997), chaps. 1, 3.

Alena Ledeneva, Russia's Economy of Favours: Blat, Networking and Informal Exchange (1998), chaps. 1, 3.

Julie Hessler, "A Postwar Perestroika? Towards a History of Private Enterprise in the USSR," Slavic Review 57:3 (Fall 1998), 516-41.

Natalia Lebina, Posvednevnaia zhizn' sovetskogo goroda 1920/1930 gody (1999)

Timo Vihavainen, ed., Normy i tsennosti posvednevnoi zhizni 1920-1930-e gody (2000).

Laura Phillips, Bolsheviks and the Bottle: Drink and Worker Culture in St. Petersburg, 1900-1929 (2000), chap. 4: "Functions of the Tavern."

Elena Osokina, Our Daily Bread : Socialist Distribution and the Art of Survival in Stalin's Russia, 1927-1941 (2001). part 3, chap. 8: "Approaching the Era of 'Free' Trade," pp. 133-154.

Christina Kiaer and Eric Naiman, eds., Everyday Life in Early Soviet Russia: Taking the Revolution Inside (2006).

Amy Nelson, "A Hearth for a Dog: The Paradoxes of Soviet Pet Keeping," in Borders of Socialism: Private Spheres of Soviet Russia, ed. Lewis H. Siegelbaum (2006).

Olga Shevchenko, Crisis and the Everyday in Postsocialist Moscow (2009).

Steven E. Harris, Communism on Tomorrow Street: Mass Housing and Everyday Life after Stalin (2013).

Choi Chatterjee, David L. Ransel, Mary Cavender, and Karen Petrone, eds. Everyday Life in Russia Past and Present (2015).

Week 11 (April 6): Stalin and Stalinism: One Problem or Two?

*Isaac Deutscher, Stalin (1949), chap. 9, "The Gods Are Athirst," 345-385.

*Robert C. Tucker, "Stalinism as Revolution from Above," in Tucker, ed., Stalinism (1977), 77-108.

*Stephen F. Cohen, "Bolshevism and Stalinism," in Tucker, ed., Stalinism (1977), 3-29.

*Moshe Lewin, Making of the Soviet System (1985), ch. 11, "Social Background to Stalinism," 258-285, 336-337.

*Stephen Kotkin, Magnetic Mountain (1995), "Afterword: Stalinism as a Civilization," 355-366, 593-594.

*Oleg Khlevniuk, "Stalin as Dictator: The Personalization of Power," in Stalin: A New History, ed. Sarah Davies and James Harris (2005), 108-20.

*Sarah Davies and James Harris, Stalin's World: Dictating the Soviet Order (2011), chap. 1, "'Bolshevik' Leadership," pp. 19-58, 281-287.

Robert C. Tucker, Stalin as Revolutionary (1973) and Stalin in Power (1990).

Sarah Davies, Popular Opinion in Stalin's Russia (1997), chaps. 9-11.

Karen Petrone, Life Has Become More Joyous, Comrades: Celebrations in the Time of Stalin (2000), chap. 1 "Interpreting Soviet Celebrations," 1-20.

Sheila Fitzpatrick, "Introduction," Stalinism: New Directions (2000), ed. Sheila Fitzpatrick, 1-14.

Jeffrey Brooks, Thank You, Comrade Stalin: Soviet Public Culture from Revolution to Cold War (2000), chap. 3: "The Performance Begins," 54-82, 263-271.

David Priestland, "Stalin as Bolshevik Romantic: Ideology and Mobilization, 1917-1939," in Stalin: A New History, ed. Sarah Davies and James Harris (2005), 181-201.

And review anything else you've read this term on Stalin and "Stalinism."

Week 12 (April 13): Late Stalinism: Utopia, Relaunch, or Terror?

*Vera Dunham, In Stalin's Time: Middle-Class Values in Soviet Fiction (1976), chap. 1, "The Big Deal," 3-23, 251-254, chap. 3, "Possessions," 41-58, 258-259. On physical reserve.

*Donald Filtzer, Soviet Workers and Late Stalinism: Labour and the Restoration of the Stalinist System after World War II (2002), "Introduction: The Political Imperatives of Postwar Recovery," 1-12, and chap. 4, "'Socializing' the Next Generation: The Position of Young Workers," 117-157.

*Anne E. Gorsuch, "'There's No Place Like Home': Soviet Tourism in Late Stalinism," Slavic Review 62:4 (Winter 2003), 760-85.

*Cynthia Hooper, "A Darker 'Big Deal': Concealing Party Crimes in the post-Second World War Era," in Late Stalinist Russia: Society between Reconstruction and Reinvention, ed. Juliane Fuerst (2006), 142-163.

*Juliane Fuerst, Stalin's Last Generation: Soviet Post-War Youth and the Emergence of Mature Socialism (2010), chap. 6: "Redefining Sovietness: Fashion, Style, and Nonconformity," 200-249.

Timothy Dunmore, Soviet Politics, 1945-1953 (1984), chaps. 1-2

Elena Zubkova, Russia after the War: Hopes, Illusions, and Disappointments, 1945-1957 (1998), chaps. 10-14.

Anna Krylova, "'Healers of Wounded Souls': The Crisis of Private Life in Soviet Literature, 1944-1946," Journal of Modern History, 73 (June 2001): 307-331.

Yoram Gorlizki and Oleg Khlevniuk, Cold Peace: Stalin and the Soviet Ruling Circle, 1945-1953 (2003).

Juliane Fuerst, "The Importance of Being Stylish: Youth, Culture, and Identity in Late Stalinism," in in Late Stalinist Russia: Society between Reconstruction and Reinvention, ed. Juliane Fuerst (2006), 209-230.

Juliane Fuerst, Polly Jones, and Susan Morrissey, "The Relaunch of the Soviet Project, 1945-64. Introduction," Slavonic and East European Review, vol. 86, no. 2 (April 2008): 201-207.

Amir Weiner, "Robust Revolution to Retiring Revolution: The Life Cycle of the Soviet Revolution, 1945–1968," Slavonic and East European Review, vol. 86, no. 2 (April 2008), 208-31

Week 13 (April 20): Thaw, Destalinization, or Revolutionary Renewal?

*William Taubman, Khrushchev: The Man and His Era (2003), chap. 10, "Almost Triumphant: 1953-1955," 236-269,709-718, chap. 11, "From the Secret Speech to the Hungarian Revolution: 1956," 270-299, 718-726.

*Kristin Roth-Ey, "'Loose Girls' on the Loose?: Sex, Propaganda, and the 1957 Youth Festival," in Women in the Khrushchev Era, ed. Melanie Ilic, Susan E. Reid, and Lynne Attwood (2004), 75-95.

*Polly Jones, "From the Secret Speech to the Burial of Stalin: Real and Ideal Responses to De-Stalinization," in The Dilemmas of De-Stalinization: Negotiating Cultural and Social Change in the Khrushchev Era, ed. Polly Jones (2006), 41-63.

*Denis Kozlov, The Readers of Novyi Mir: Coming to Terms with the Stalinist Past (2013), chap. 6: "Reassessing the Moral Order: Ehrenburg and the Memory of Terror," 171-208, 380-388.

*Oscar Sanchez-Sibony, Red Globalization: The Political Economy of the Soviet Cold War from Stalin to Khrushchev (2014), chap. 4: "Maelstrom: The Decolonization Vortex," pp. 125-169.

*Christine Varga-Harris, Stories of House and Home: Soviet Apartment Life during the Khrushchev Years (2015), chap. 6, "Constructing Soviet Identity and Reviving Socialism on the Home Front," pp. 171-210, 253-259.

Ted Hopf, Social Construction of International Politics: Identities and Foreign Policies, Moscow, 1955 and 1999 (2002), chap. 2: "The Russian Nation, New Soviet Man, Class, and Modernity," 39-82.

Vladimir Kozlov, Mass Uprisings in the USSR : Protest and Rebellion in the Post-Stalin Years (2002), chap. 8, "The Early 1960s: Symptoms of a Socio-Political Crisis," 173-180, 327-328, chap. 12, "The Phenomenon of Novocherkassk, Part One," 224-250, 331-334.

N. B. Lebina and A.N. Chistikov, Obyvatel' i reformy: Kartiny povsednevnoi zhizni gorozhan (2003).

Iurii Aksiutin, Khrushchevskaia "Ottepel'" i obshchestvennye nastroeniia v SSSR v 1953-1964 gg. (2004)

Miriam Dobson, "Contesting the Paradigms of De-Stalinization: Readers' Responses to One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich," Slavic Review Vol. 64, No. 3. (Autumn, 2005), pp. 580-600.

Benjamin Nathans, "The Dictatorship of Reason: Aleksandr Vol'pin and the Idea of Rights under 'Developed Socialism,'" Slavic Review 66, no. 4 (Winter 2007), 630-63.

Stephen Bittner, The Many Lives of Khrushchev's Thaw: Experience and Memory in Moscow's Arbat (2008), introduction.

Week 14 (April 27): Socialist Consumerism

*Jukka Gronow, Caviar with Champagne: Common Luxury and the Ideals of the Good Life in Stalin's Russia (2003), chap. 8: "Soviet Consumption amidst General Poverty," 119-44.

*Alexei Yurchak, Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation (2006), chap. 2: "Hegemony of Form: Stalin's Uncanny Paradigm Shift," 36-76, and chap. 5: "Imaginary West: The Elsewhere of Late Socialism," 158-206.

*Kristin Roth-Ey, "Finding a Home for Television in the USSR, 1950-1970," Slavic Review 66, no. 2 (Summer 2007), 278-306.

*Susan Reid, "This Is Tomorrow! Becoming a Consumer in the Soviet Sixties," in The Socialist Sixties: Crossing Borders in the Second World (2013), ed. Anne E. Gorsuch and Diane P. Koenker, pp. 25-65.

*Diane P. Koenker, Club Red: Vacation Travel and the Soviet Dream (2013), chap. 5, "From Treatment to Vacation: The Post-Stalin Consumer Regime," 167-209.

*Serguei Alex Oushakine, "'Against the Cult of Things': On Soviet Productivism, Storage Economy, and Commodities with No Destination," Russian Review, vol. 73, no. 2 (April 2014): 198-236.

James R. Millar, "The Little Deal: Brezhnev's Contribution to Acquisitive Socialism," Slavic Review 44:4 (Winter 1985), 694-706.

Petr Vail' and Aleksandr Genis, 60-e: mir sovetskogo cheloveka (1988)

Karen Petrone, Life Has Become More Joyous, Comrades: Celebrations in the Time of Stalin (2000), chap. 4: "Fir Trees and Carnivals: The Celebration of Soviet New Year's Day," 85-109.

Amy E. Randall, "'Revolutionary Bolshevik Work': Stakhanovism in Retail Trade," Russian Review 59, no. 3 (July 2000), 425-441

Stephen Lovell, Summerfolk (2003), chap 6: "Between Consumption and Ownership: Exurban Life, 1941-1986"

Julie Hessler, A Social History of Soviet Trade : Trade Policy, Retail Practices, and Consumption, 1917-1953 (2004), chap. 5.

Anne E. Gorsuch, "Time Travelers: Soviet Tourists to Eastern Europe," in Turizm: The Russian and East European Tourist under Capitalism and Socialism, ed. Anne E. Gorsuch and Diane P. Koenker (2006), 205-226.

Lewis H. Siegelbaum, "Cars, Cars, and More Cars: The Faustian Bargain of the Brezhnev Era," in Borders of Socialism: Private Spheres of Soviet Russia, ed. Lewis H. Siegelbaum (2006), 83-103.

Elena Stiazhkina, "The 'Petty-Bourgeois Woman' and the 'Soulless Philistine': Gendered Aspects of the History of Soviet Everyday Life from the Mid-1960s to the Mid-1980s," Russian Studies in History, vol. 51, no. 2 (Fall 2012): 63-97.

Natalya Chernyshova, Soviet Consumer Culture in the Brezhnev Era (2013).

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