The Soviet Union and Modern Russia (HIST-0062)

Fall 2025 · HIST 0062 · Tufts University · 3 credits · Undergraduate

Modern Russia from the 1905 Revolution until the present. Topics include: ethnic and religious diversity in the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia; World War I; the revolutions of 1917 and the Civil War; the ideology of communism and its application in the Soviet Union; the changing status of women; nationalities policy in the Soviet Union; Stalinism; World War II and the Holocaust on Soviet territory; the Cold War; de-Stalinization and the Thaw; the impact of Western culture on Soviet society; Soviet engagement with the Global South after decolonization; Brezhnev and the era of stagnation; Perestroika; the collapse of communism; the "wild 1990s"; Putinism; the Russo-Ukrainian war; contemporary Russian-U.S. relations. Sources include: government documents, fiction, diaries, propaganda posters, and films.

Course codes: HIST-0062, HIST 0062, HIST0062, HIST-62, HIST 62, HIST62

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