History 30.01
Revolutions of the 20th Century
The Following Books Have Been Assigned:
1) Debating Revolutions by Nikki R. Keddie (editor)
2) Black Night, White Snow by Harrison E. Salisbury
3) The Meaning of Hitler by Sebastian Haffner
4) Goebbels by Ralf Georg Reuth
5) Castro by Sebastian Balfour
Class Reports and Assignments
1 September
Introduction to the Seminar
8 September
Class Discussion of Reading
Assignment: Keddie, pp. 1-64, Salisbury, pp. 1-49.
15 September
Class Discussion of Reading
Assignment: Keddie, pp. 65-81, Salisbury, pp. 50-159.
22 September
All Research Paper Topics To Be Handed In!
Report: Pugashev, the Decembrists + the Narodniki
Class Discussion of Reading
Assignment: Keddie, pp. 85-177. Salisbury, pp. 160-234.
29 September
Report: An Analysis of Lenin's "What is to be Done?" and "Two Tactics"
Report: An Analysis of Lenin's "State and Revolution"
Class Discussion of Reading
Assignment: Keddie, pp. 178-218. Salisbury, pp. 235-318.
6 October
Report:Rosa Luxemburg
Report:Stalin
Class Discussion of Reading
Assignment: Keddie, pp. 219-295. Salisbury, pp. 319-376.
13 October
Report: Tito and Yugoslav Communism
Report: Ho Chi Minh and the Vietnamese Revolution
Class Discussion of Reading
Assignment: Salisbury, pp. 376-599.
20 October
Report: Nazi Ideology
Class Discussion of Reading
Assignment: Reuth, pp. 1-77, Haffner, pp. 1-45.
27 October
Report: The Spanish Civil War
Class Discussion of Reading
Assignment: Reuth, pp. 79-219, Haffner, pp. 49-95.
3 November
Report: Hitler and the Second World War
Class Discussion of Reading
Assignment: Reuth, pp. 220-363, Haffner, pp.99-165.
10 November
All Research Papers Are Due!
Report: Jose Marti
Assignment: Balfour, pp. 1-35.
17 November
Report: "Che" Guevara
Report The Grenadian Revolution
Assignment: Balfour, pp.36-118.
1 December
Report: The Islamic Revolution in Iran
Report: The Eritrean Revolution
Assignment: Balfour, pp.119-187. Keddie, pp. 296-313.
8 December
Review + Party!
Comments to: Kai Schoenhals,
Department of History, schoenha@kenyon.edu
Edited: 07-21-97
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