| Week Starts | Topic | Assignments/Critical course Deadlines | Assignment Due Date |
Possible Points |
| 4 September |
Unit 1: Introduction
and Themes in Russian History |
Introduction paragraph | 8 am 12 September |
50 |
| 11 September |
Unit 2: Reaction and Modernization under Alexander III and Nicholas II | Witte
paragraph |
8 am 15 September |
50 |
| Unit 3: A Silver Age of Russian Culture | Last Refund Date/First Assignment Due Date Deadline (14 September) | |||
| 18 September | Unit 4: Marxism |
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| Unit 5: 1905 | 1905 paragraph | 8 am 26 September |
50 | |
| 25 September |
Unit 6: World War I | |||
| Unit 7: 1917 and Civil War | Midterm Exam Due Date | 3 October | 200 | |
| 2 October |
Unit 8: NEP and the Roaring 1920s | Lenin's Testament paragraph | 8 am 6 October |
50 |
| Unit 9: Stalinism in the 1930s | ||||
| 9 October |
Unit 10: World War II | Last Withdrawal Date (9 October) | ||
| Unit 11: Cold War Abroad | Secret Speech paragraph | 8 am 17 October |
50 | |
| 16 October |
Unit 12: Thaw at Home | Solzhenitsyn paper | 8 am 20 October |
100 |
| Unit 13: Gorbachev | Gorbachev paragraph | 8 am 24 October |
50 | |
| 23 October |
Unit 14: The End of the Soviet Union | Russian Culture paper | 8 am 27 October |
100 |
| Unit 15: Whither Russia in the Twenty-First Century? | Final exam; Course End Date (31 October) | 31 October | 250 | |
| Any Week | Online Discussion (Post ten times during the course.) | 50 | ||
| TOTAL REQUIRED POINTS | 1,000 | |||
The specific assignment deadlines in this course are listed on the course schedule. You may not submit late extra credit work from a course unit. You may submit any of the course assignments, or optional course assignments late, but the maximum point value will then be reduced by one-half.
Course grades are based on the following scale:
- 1,000-900: A
- 899-800: B
- 799-700: C
- 699-600: D
- 599-000: F
Please remember that you must pass the final exam with a grade of "C" (175/250) or better to earn a passing grade in this course.