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HIST 4608

The Soviet Union

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 EURR 4306 . Also offered at the graduate level, with different requirements, as HIST 5608 , for which additional credit is precluded. Seminar three hours a week.

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