Week 7: Russaian Revolution, Part II

Tuesday: The Russian Revolution, Part II

Prepare for Class

Presentation

Read:

• Secondary Sources:
  • Christopher Read, “The Contours of National Politics 1917-21” in From Tsar to Soviets: The Russian People and their Revolution (Oxford University Press, 1996), 177-198. (On Zotero)
• Primary Sources:
  • “The Mensheviks Walk Out and Split.” (on Zotero)
  • “The October Days” (on Zotero)
  • “The Soviets Take Power” (on Zotero)
  • “Women Workers and Soviet Russia” (on Zotero)
  • “The First Woman Commissar” (on Zotero)

Thursday: The Revolution and Europe

Prepare for Class

Read:

• Secondary Sources:
  • Teddy J. Uldricks, “Russia and Europe: Diplomacy, Revolution, and Economic Development in the 1920s,” The International History Review 1, no. 1 (1979): 55–83.
• Primary Sources:
  • “An order to expand the Red Terror (1918)”
  • “Lenin decrees the formation of the CHEKA (1917)”