Russian Studies

Fall 2013

What Was Done

I. Interpretive Introduction

a. Marxists

i. Orthodox

ii. Revisionist

iii. Leninist

b. Liberals

c. Modernizers

d. Conservatives

i. Entropists

ii. Ideologues

e. Accidentalists

II. 1905 Revolution

a. Russo-Japanese War (1904-05)

b. Bloody Sunday

c. October Manifesto

d. The Duma

Bolsheviks SR’s Mensheviks Cadets Octobrists

And its usurpation

III. The February Revolution 1917

a. World War One

b. Abdication of the Tsar (March 15)

c. The Provisional Government

i. War Policy

ii. Land Policy

iii. Constituent Assembly

d. Kerensky to Power

e. Kerensky Offensive

vs.

f. The Soviets

i. Order #1

Lenin’s April Theses

ii. “All power to the Soviets”

iii. “Land, Peace and Bread”

iv. July Days 1917

g. Kornilov Affair

IV. The October Revolution 1917

a. Council of People’s Commissars

i. Peace initiative, land seizures, factory seizures, nobility abolished, Church suppressed, alphabet reformed, calendar reformed, Cheka

ii. Suppression of Constituent Assembly

iii. Treaty of Brest-Litovsk Mar 1918

V. The Civil War 1918-21

a. Reds (Trotsky) v. Whites, Allies and Poland

b. War Communism

c. Comintern

VI. The NEP 1921

a. One Step Backward

b. Lenin’s Death 1924

VII. Stalin Revolution 1928-34

a. Power Struggle and “What is to be Done” redux

i. Bukharin v. Trotsky

b. Socialism in One Country

i. Five Year Plans

ii. Collectivization

c. Purges