History 317 - The Russian Revolution

This course examines events and ideas of Russia's revolutionary period from circa 1900 to the revolutions of 1917 and then the mechanisms of establishing Soviet power until about 1921. We will include the history of intellectual and social trends that form the basis of later revolutions and consider the Russian Empire and the USSR as multinational empires in which the non-Russians at times had their own interpretations of socialist and nationalist thought.

Open to Seniors, Juniors & Sophomores only. This will be a specially designed course for the 100th anniversary of the Bolshevik seizure of power in October/November 1917.