What you must do in this unit
What you can do in this unit
Some videos that you can watch for this unit
Extra Credit Options
- For 50 points maximum extra credit, watch Letyat zhuravli (Cranes are Flying) and explain the purpose of the film in a one-page paper.
- For 50 points maximum extra credit--maybe more--watch Sibiriada (Siberiade) and explain why your professor finds this film so fascinating in a one-page paper.
- For 50 points maximum extra credit, watch Moskva Slezam ne Verit (Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears) and assess the movie's portrayal of Russian society in the 1970s in a one-page paper.
- For 50 points maximum extra credit, read Vladimir Voinovich, Ivankiad and, in a one-page paper, comment upon the author's portrayal of Soviet society under Brezhnev.
- For 50 points maximum extra credit, read
Ilya Ehrenburg, The Thaw (1955) and write a one-page paper explaining what the "Thaw" was.
- For
50 points maximum extra credit, read Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971), Khrushchev
Remembers (1970) and also Khrushchev Remembers: The Last Testament (1974) and Khrushchev Remembers: The Glasnost Tapes (1990)--any of
these--and assess the content and accuracy of what Khrushchev had to
say in a one-page paper.
- For 50 points maximum extra credit, read
Roy Medvedev, Let History Judge: The Origins and Consequences of
Stalinism (1971)--a very important and interesting work--and write a one-page
paper in which you explain Medvedev's analysis of Stalinism.
- For 50 points maximum extra credit, read
Andrei Sakharov (1921-1989), My Country and the World (1975) and write a one-page paper in which you explain Sakharov's political ideas.
- For 50 points maximum extra credit, read
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Letter to Soviet Leaders (1974) and write a one-page paper assessing what Solzhenitsyn wrote in his letter.
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