The XXth Century Political History of Russia. Lecture materials

Preface
Introduction
Theme 1. The Study of Modem Russian History: Main
Characteristics and Trends
Main Part
Theme 2. Russia at the Beginning of the 20th Century:
Its Self-image, Economic and Political Organization, and
Contradictions of Its Development
Theme 3. Festival of the Oppressed or Social Disease?
The Nature of the Russian Revolutions
Theme 4. Emergency Measures and the "Extreme
Emergency Regime" in the Soviet Republic and other
State Formations on the Territory of Russia, 1918-1920
Theme 5. From "War Communism" to the New Economic
Policy: Contradictions of the NEP
Theme 6. NEP Downsizing and the Transformation of
the Policy of Extraordinary Measures into a Permanent
System of Government
Theme 7. The 1930s: Crises, Reforms, Repressions
Theme 8. The Hierarchy of the Great Terror
Theme 9. Illusions and Awakening of the Generation of
1930s
Theme 10. The Great Patriotic War 1941-1945: Main
Events and Popular Mood in the Unoccupied Soviet
Union
Theme 11. The People and Problems of the Post-War
Era
Theme 12. The Khrushchev's Thaw and Its Reverse
Side
Theme 13. Sixties and Seventies: From Reforms to
Stagnation
Theme 14. The 1980s: the Space of Power
and a Search for New Ways of Historical Progress
Theme 15. August Putsch of 1991 and the Termidor of
Yeltsin
Contemporary Russia. With What Does Russia Enter
the New Millenium?
Theme 16. The Realm of Power under Vladimir Putin
Theme 17. Reforms and the Hierarchy of National
Projects
Theme 18. Locating of the Revolutionary Period of
1917 in Russian Historical Memory
Theme 19. The Great Victory of 1945 in Historical
Memory
Theme 20. Twentieth-century Russian Utopias:
Archaeology of the Future as Imagined by the State
and Desired by the Intelligentsia
Main Events, Dates and Glossary
Selected Biographies