Learning Outcomes:
On completion of this module, students should be able to:
1. Demonstrate detailed knowledge of the events, actors and processes in Russia’s revolutionary history.
2. Critically engage with a variety of primary and secondary material.
3. Evaluate conflicting interpretations of the events of 1917, their causes and consequences.
4. Write scholarly essays to the standard of a level 3 student of history.
5. Assess and analyse key themes, readings and debates in class discussions.
Indicative Module Content:
The module will cover the following areas:
Week 1: Russia in 1900
Week 2: 1905
Week 3: The constitutional experiment, 1906-1914
Week 4: The changing face of society to 1914
Week 5: Russia and the First World War
Week 6: The February revolution and the transition to Dual Power
Week 7: March to October 1917 in city and countryside
[Reading weeks]
Week 8: The Bolshevik rise to power
Week 9: The civil war years
Week 10: Revolutionary dreams: Cultures of power
Week 11: Party, state and society to 1921