| Unit | TOPIC | ASSIGNMENT | POINTS | GRADE |
| 1 | Introduction
and Themes in Russian History |
Introduction paragraph | 50 | |
| 2 | Reaction and
Modernization under Alexander III and Nicholas II |
Witte
paragraph |
50 | |
| 3 | A Silver Age
of Russian Culture |
Last Refund Date Blackboard Sign-In Deadline |
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| 4 | Marxism |
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| 5 | 1905 | 1905 paragraph |
50 |
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| 6 | World War I |
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| 7 | 1917 and
Civil War |
Midterm exam |
200 | |
| 8 | NEP and the
Roaring 1920s |
Lenin's
Testament paragraph |
50 | |
| 9 | Stalinism in
the 1930s |
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| 10 | World War II |
Last Withdrawal Date | ||
| 11 | Cold War
Abroad |
Secret Speech
paragraph |
50 | |
| 12 | Thaw at Home |
Solzhenitsyn
paper |
100 |
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| 13 | Gorbachev |
Gorbachev
paragraph |
50 | |
| 14 | The End of
the Soviet Union |
Russian Culture
paper |
100 | |
| 15 | Whither
Russia in the Twenty-First Century? |
Final
exam Course End Date |
250 | |
| Any Unit | Online Discussion (Post ten times during the course.) | 50 | ||
| Any Unit | Extra Credit | |||
| TOTAL REQUIRED POINTS | 1,000 | |||
Course grades are based on the following scale:
- 1,000-900: A
- 899-800: B
- 799-700: C
- 699-600: D
- 599-000: F