The Soviet Empire, 1917-1991
HIST 1980
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Description
This course will analyze the Soviet Union as a multi-national state and ask to what extent it functioned as an empire and how its strategies of national rule evolved from the revolution to 1991. It will also analyze Soviet foreign policy towards other Communist states in eastern Europe and in Asia and ask to what extent these were imperial. Finally, it will look at how strategies of domination over non-Russians in the USSR and abroad interacted in the collapse of European Communism.
Course Notes
This course meets the "Beyond North America" History Concentration requirement & can be used to fulfill the seminar requirement.
School
Faculty of Arts & Sciences
Credits
4
Cross Reg
Available for Harvard Cross Registration
Department
History
Course Component
Conference Course
Subject
History
Grading Basis
FAS Letter Graded
General Education
N/A
Quantitative Reasoning with Data
N/A
Divisional Distribution
Social Sciences
Course Level
For Undergraduate and Graduate Students
