| Week Starts |
Topic |
Assignments/Critical Course Deadlines | Assignment |
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) |
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| 29 January |
Unit 4: Marxism |
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| 5 February |
Unit 5: 1905 | 1905 paragraph |
8 am 13 February |
50 |
| 12 February |
Unit 6: World War I |
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| 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 |
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| 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 | |||
The specific assignment deadlines in this course are listed on the course schedule. You may not submit late extra credit work from a course unit. You may submit any of the course assignments, or optional course assignments late, but the maximum point value will then be reduced by one-half.
Course grades are based on the following scale:
- 1,000-900: A
- 899-800: B
- 799-700: C
- 699-600: D
- 599-000: F