Soviet Union since October Revolution to Perestroika
Course code
AIG6138.HT
old course code
AIG6138
Course title in Estonian
Nõukogude Liit Oktoobrirevolutsioonist perestroikani
Course title in English
Soviet Union since October Revolution to Perestroika
ECTS credits
4.0
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Examination
lecturer of 2023/2024 Spring semester
Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.
lecturer of 2024/2025 Autumn semester
Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.
Course aims
Discuss why the Russian Empire collapsed and how the Bolsheviks came to power. Characterisation of the Soviet Union and its history until 1991.
Brief description of the course
Alexander III and Nikolai II and their time. War with Japan and the revolution of 1905. State Duma and Duma-monarchy. First World War. Events of 1917 and the Bolsheviks' coup d'etat. Civil War. The NEP-era. Stalin comes to power. Live in the Soviet Union during the 1930s. Second World War. The final years of Stalinism. Khrushchev's „Thaw“ and Brezhnev's period of stagnation. USSR and the Cold War. Resistance to the regime. Gorbatchev's perestroika and „new thinking“ in foreign policy. National question during perstroika and the liberation movement of Soviet peoples. The breaking up of the empire. The Russian Federation in the era of Yelzin and Putin.
Teacher
Prof. Karsten Brüggemann
Prerequisite course 1
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