1905-1917

Ideas, Events, Dates, and Dilemmas

Sergei Witte - Week 5
Westernizer. Lecture #7a:3 and 7b:1; 7b:p1. Text: pp. 367, 370-1, 383, 385, 405, 417; Japanese 374, 376; industrialization 398-9, 400, 402; revolution of 1905, 381-2.
Nicholas II - Week 6 and Week 7
"Nicholas II was a pupil of Ober-Procurator Pobedonostsev, and relied on him to implement his "temporary restrictions" (369) "Nicholas II, Alexander's oldest son, had not been brought up to rule; in fact, his father deliberately kept the young tsarevich from attending political meetings or anything on the governing of the country. Nicholas spent his time going to the ballet, meeting young women, and generally living a life of leisure. That all changed in 1894, when his father took ill and died in a matter of weeks. Suddenly Nicholas, 26 years of age, was the emperor of all the Russias. " Lecture #6b:3-6; 7a:5 and #7c:4, 6. Text: pp. 351, 362-3, 367-76, 378, 397, 440, 441, 584; personal qualities 367-9; canonization 368-9, 655; reaction under 369-70; Revolution of 1905, 379-81; Fundamental Laws 382-3; Duma 384-5, 395; Treaty of Björkö 390; World War I 392-5; abdication 442; murder 467.
Rasputin - Week 7
Lecture #7c:5. Text: pp. 368, (394), 395, 440.
Revolution of 1905 - Week 7
Lecture #nl:p. Text: pp. 351, 362, 376, 378-82, 400, 405-6, 410-11, 417, 436, 439; background 378-9; events 380-82.
February Revolution 1917 - Week 7
Lecture #nl:p. Text: pp. 441, 447, 483.
Bolsheviks - Week 7
denounced the war as an imperialist battle"; "one of the Petrograd garrisons came out in support of the Bolsheviks, but the majority did not" - July coup; October Revolution; NEP. Lecture #nl:p. Text: pp. 440, 443, 557-8, 561, 650; split from Social Democrats, 379, 454; growing popularity 410; split from Mensheviks 434-5; reasons for 1917 victory 444-5; Provisional Government 444-6; attempt to seize power 445; October Revolution 449; renamed Communist Party 454-5; consolidation of power 460; Constituent Assembly 463; first months in power 463-5; assassinations 466; Stalin's relationship with 483; great purge 495-7; foreign relations 502-4; see also Civil War; Communist Party; Red Army; War Communism.
 
World War I - Week 8
Lecture #nl:p. Text: pp.
Mensheviks - Week #8
Leon Trotsky was one of leading Mensheviks.
Lecture #nl:p. Text: pp. 379, 410, 443, 454, 557; split with bolsheviks, 434-5; in Constituent Assembly, 463; persecution, 465; in Georgia, 474, 593.
Provisional Government - Week 8
Lecture #nl:p. Text: pp. 441-7; 463, 470; achievements 443; shortcomings 443-4; overthrow 449.
July Days Coup - Week 8
Lecture #nl:p. Text: pp. 445.
October Revolution of 1917 - Week 8
Lecture #nl:p. Text: pp. 408, 449, 454, 461, 473, 475, 485, 493, 557, 566, 571; described 432-3; crises following 474; Stalin's participation 483; destruction of old society 559.
Russian Revolution- Week 8
Lecture #nl:p. Text: pp. 386, 439-49, 590; economy 396-414; cultural 415-38; Provisional Government 441-7; social 447-9. See February Revolution and October Revolution
Civil War - Week 9
Lecture #nl:p. Text: pp.
Krontadt Rebellion - Week 9
Lecture #nl:p. Text: pp. 206, 475.
NEP - New Economic Policy - Week 9
Lecture #:p. Text: pp. 461, 475-7, 481, 548, 559, 561, 605; success 476; restrictions 476-7; abandonment 485.
Lenin - Week 8 and Week 9
Lecture #8 and #9a:p. Text: pp. 434-5, 438, 444, 447, 452, 454-9, 461-3, 472, 297, 534, 541, 558, 561, 647; original name 379, Revolution of 1905 and 379; "April Theses" 444, 455; returns to Russia 444-45, 449; background 456, 461; death 461; myth and reality 462; WWI 464; wounding 466; murder of Romanovs 467; Communist party head 473-4; rationale behind NEP 475-7; power struggle following death 477-81; opinion of Stalin 483; electrification 485; foreign relations 501, 502; Gorbachev 585-6; religion 654..
Lenin's Last Testament - Week 9
Lecture #nl:p. Text: pp. 477-81; 461.
Costs of WWII - Week 10
Lecture #nl:p. Text: pp.