Week Starts
|
Topic |
Assignments/Critical Course Deadlines |
Assignment
Due Date |
Possible Points |
8
January |
Unit 1: Introduction
and Themes in Russian History
|
Introduction
paragraph |
8 am
17 January
|
50 |
15
January |
Unit 2: Reaction and
Modernization under Alexander III and Nicholas II
|
Witte
paragraph
|
8 am
23 January
|
50 |
22
January |
Unit 3: A Silver Age
of Russian Culture
|
Last Refund Date/
First Assignment Due Date Deadline (27 January) |
29
January |
Unit 4: Marxism
|
|
5
February |
Unit 5: 1905 |
1905 paragraph
|
8 am
13 February |
50
|
12
February |
Unit 6: World War I
|
|
19
February |
Unit 7: 1917 and
Civil War
|
Midterm Exam Due Date
|
27 February |
200 |
26
February |
Unit 8: NEP and the
Roaring 1920s
|
Lenin's
Testament paragraph
|
8 am
4 March |
50 |
11
March |
Unit 9: Stalinism in
the 1930s
|
|
18
March |
Unit 10: World War II
|
Last Withdrawal Date (21 March) |
25
March |
Unit 11: Cold War
Abroad
|
Secret Speech
paragraph
|
8 am
2 April
|
50 |
1
April |
Unit 12: Thaw at Home
|
*Optional Solzhenitsyn
paper
|
8 am
9 April |
100
|
8
April |
Unit 13: Gorbachev
|
Gorbachev
paragraph
|
8 am
16 April
|
50 |
15
April |
Unit 14: The End of
the Soviet Union
|
Russian Culture
paper; *Optional Sheets paper
|
8 am
23 April |
100 |
22
April |
Unit 15: Whither
Russia in the Twenty-First Century?
|
Final
exam; Course End Date (7 May)
|
30 April |
250 |
Any
Week |
|
Online
Discussion (Post ten times during the course.) |
|
50 |
|
|
TOTAL REQUIRED POINTS |
|
1,000 |