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Nov 23, 2024
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Goucher College 2015-2016 Undergraduate Catalogue PLEASE NOTE: This is an archived catalog. Programs are subject to change each academic year.
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HIS 222 - Russia and the Soviet Union in the 20th Century and Beyond (3 Cr.)
This course will examine the Soviet Union in the 20th century, beginning with the Bolshevik Revolution and Civil War; Stalinism in the 1930s; the collectivization of agriculture and peasant revolt; the five-year plans; shifts in gender, family, and sexuality laws; national minorities in the Soviet state; the Great Terror; World War II on the home front and in the Soviet military; the onset of the Cold War under Khrushchev; the effects of glasnost and perestroika under Gorbachev; and the path of postsocialist Russia since 1991. Prerequisite: sophomore standing or permission of the instructor. Spring semester. Corcoran.
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