STALIN AND VOROSHILOV (1938)
MARIST COLLEGE
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
INSTRUCTOR: DR. NORKELIUNAS
Tues & Thurs 3:30 - 4:45, DY 146
Spring 2000
SHoemaker, Russia, Eurasian States, and Eastern Europe, 1999.
Volkogonov, Dmitri. Stalin: Triumph and Tragedy.
Using the college library, you should be reading one of the following newspapers daily and one of the following magazines weekly. Follow the current events as they unfold in Russia and the other members of the Commonwealth of Independents States, and the Independent There Baltic States.
Newspapers:The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, The Wallstreet Journal
Magazines:Time, Newsweek, U.S. News and World Report, Foreign Affairs, The Economist
The student is expected to fulfill course requirements by completing reading assignments, taking the scheduled exams(including the final), any written assignments and attending all the lecture sessions. For dates of the assignments consult the "Course Outline."
The final grade is contingent on the degree on the degree of successfully fulfilling the above requirements. The final grade is to be awarded based on the Marist College grading criteria, stipulatd in the Marist College Catalog. I strongly suggest you become familiar with this policy.
1. Comprehensive reading of required texts.
2. Term paper: 10 pgs. in length, due at the end of the semester.
3. Study of lecture notes.
4. Tests and exams
5. Attendance: absence from class of more than three unexcused absences will result in course failure.
6. Grade Distribution
Term Paper: | 20% |
Two tests: | 30% |
Final Exam: | 30% |
Class Discussions: | 20% |
A study of the Soviet Union and its Eastern European satellites from the death of Stalin (3/2/53) to the present dramatic developments underway in Yeltsin's Russia, Kravchuk's Ukraine, the Servian-Bosnian conflict in former Yugoslavia and other current developments in these regions. The course highlights Kruschev's period of the reforms of the "Thaw," Brezhnev's return to "Stalinism," Gorbachev's liberal reforms of glasnost and perestroika, the 1991 August coup and the collapse of Communism in Russia, and the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the reunification of the two Germanys. The course will extensively of the Soviet Union and its satellites, such as Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and others.
A course covering all of Eastern Europe in the 20th Century did not exist until recently in the present offerings of the History Department. The collapse of Communism in Russia and other Eastern European countries has unleashed political, economic, and ethnic forces that have thrown some of these regions into chaos and civil war; the effects of which have had global and regional consequences. The United States being today the only truly global power, whether is wants to be or not, is faced with these global challenges and complexities. The immediate and constant flux of political and economic change in the Ukraine, or an intermediary in these crisis. It is of high circular priority that Marist students become familiar with the world of Eastern Europe, so as to be able to cope, understand, and compete more effectively in the 21st Century with their global counterparts in the East as well as the West. To get the Course Outline Click Here
Please take note, that Marist College has a policy of excellence in English, namely command of reading, writing, and speaking. This policy exists throughout the college curriculum. Anyone who is weak in these English skills will find the course very difficult. The requirement of the dictionary as a text is intended for you to spell correctly, as well as for the purposes of building English vocabulary. Thus, you are required to bring it to every class.
Every literary work covered in this course has a very large supplementary internet menu. The online materials are located on my home page originating from Marist College Institutional Technology Network.
A list of Internet and WWW sites are located on my home page (the URL is www.academic.marist.edu/nork). Keep in mind that the new college library is opening this semester, spring 2000. Be sure to use the Marist College Library's sources to do further research on topics especially in writing the required term paper.
Every student in class should have a Marist College e-mail address. Please give this information to Dr. Norkeliunas the first week of the semester, or send it via e-mail to Dr. Norkeliunas' address- jzfn@maristb.marist.edu Questions and discussions regarding topics of written assignments will be facilitated if you contact Dr. Norkeliunas via e-mail. Be sure to make this a regular practice.
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