HIS 102
Unit 11:
Russian Revolution
This statue of Lenin
stands
proudly in a dramatic action pose in front of the Smolny Institute from where
Lenin directed the
Bolshevik seizure of power on the night of 25/26 October (5/6 November
according to the European calendar) 1917. There were no such
dramatic poses that night for Lenin, just sitting behind a desk issuing
orders, pacing the Bolshevik offices and anxiously awaiting reports
from throughout Petrograd to see if the Bolshevik gamble had succeeded.
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What you must do in this unit
- Read chapter 24, especially the section on the Russian Revolution,
and chapter 25, especially the section "The Soviet Union under Lenin
and Stalin."
- Read my remarks on the Russian Revolutions of 1917, then the period of NEP in the 1920s followed by Stalin's revolution in the 1930s.
- Read my additonal note on 1917.
- Study the Questions to Consider and the Key Terms for the week.
- Post (or respond) your thoughts/ideas about this unit's reading and assignment in the Blackboard online discussion forum. Do not post your assignment there.
- Submit the Web paper.
What you can do in this unit
Some videos that you can watch for this unit
- See the videos dealing with the Russian Revolution in the HIS 242 course.
- For extra credit please suggest to your instructor a relevant video for this unit of the course. Send the title of the video, the url and a brief explanation of why you find the video interesting and applicable to the material that is being studied in this unit.
Extra Credit Options
- Take the short 5-point quiz for chapter 25. Log into Blackboard and look under "Chapter Quizzes." You have five minutes to complete each quiz (multiple-choice questions).
- Write a one-page paper (maybe
two pages if they are exceptional) that provides a detailed comparison of the
U.S. Declaration of Independence and the Russian Declaration of the Rights of
the Russian People for a maximum of 50 points.
- Read John Reed's
Ten Days That Shook the World
(free at www.bartleby.com/79/)
and explain Reed's explanation of why the Bolsheviks were able to seize power
successfully for a maximum of 50 points (one or two pages).
- For 25 points maximum extra credit, read the
Franco-Russian Alliance Military Convention (1992),
and write a paragraph that answers the question, How did this convention fit into the
pre-1914 diplomatic scene?
- For 25 points maximum extra credit, read a
newspaper account of
the Kishinev pogrom and write a paragraph explaining the impact of the pogrom
on Kishinev.
- For extra credit of a maximum of 10 points,
you can submit the answers to the Russian Declaration of the Rights of the Russian People study questions. Please write in formal, complete sentences.
- For extra credit, please suggest a
relevant website for this unit of the course. Send the title of the site, the url and a
brief explanation why you find the information interesting and applicable to
the material being studied this unit.
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