Vasilii Svarog (Vasilii Korochkin, 1883-1946), Stalin and Members of Politbureau in the midst of children in Gorky Park, 1939; what a happy scene!

• Read the textbook chapters 37 and 41 and pages 501-08 of chapter 38
• Check the remarks by Professor Blois and Professor Evans on the Stalin
• Study the Questions to Consider and the Key Terms for the week

• Post or respond in the Blackboard online discussion forum

• For 50 points maximum extra credit, watch Pokayaniye (Repentance) and write a one-page paper about its portrayal of Stalinism.
• For 50 points maximum extra credit, watch Utomlyonnye Solntsem (Burnt by the Sun) and assess its depiction of the early Stalinist purges in a one-page paper.
  
• For 50 points maximum extra credit, read John Scott, Behind the Urals: An American Worker in Russia's City of Steel (1942) and write a one-page paper about this American's experiences in Stalinist Russia.
• For 50 points maximum extra credit, read Isaac Deutscher, Stalin, a Political Biography (1967) and write a one-page paper explaining Deutscher's understanding of Stalin's political "success."
• For 50 points maximum extra credit, read Amy Knight, Beria: Stalin's First Lieutenant (1993) and write a one-page paper explaining the basic processes of the Great Terror.
• For 25 points maximum extra credit, read Stalin's "On the Industrialization of Russia" and explain the main rationale for Stalin's policies in a paragraph.