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EURR 4306

The Soviet Union: Power and Culture

0.5 credit · Undergraduate

Examination of the rise of the Soviet Union to a global power and subsequent tensions that promoted its collapse. The course will analyze Stalinism, the Second World War, the Thaw, and Brezhnev and Gorbachev eras through the lens of the USSR’s citizens.

2025

Readings

  • Those unfamiliar with Soviet history may want to consider an introductory text, such as: recent editions of Nicholas Riasanovsky and Mark Steinberg, A History of Russia; Peter Kenez, A History of the
  • Soviet Union from Beginning to End; Ronald Grigor Suny, The Soviet Experiment: Russia, the USSR and the Soviet Successor States.

Prerequisites & course information

Also listed as HIST 4608 . Precludes additional credit for EURR 4203. Prerequisite(s): fourth-year Honours standing or permission of the Institute. Also offered at the graduate level, with different requirements, as EURR 5306 , for which additional credit is precluded. Seminar three hours a week.

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