I’d really like to put together a special subject that fits Soviet domestic politics under Stalin together with foreign policy. As much as 50% of the module could deal with the foreign policy, and it would work well as a special subject, allowing students to engage with the historiography and with primary material relating to Stalin’s time in power. It should also produce some interesting dissertations and recruit well.
Potential topics:
- Stalin’s rise to power
- The Great Break (1928 launch of FYP and collectivization)
- The Assassination of Kirov
- The Gulag
- Soviet culture and society under Stalin (several topics in this)
- Dissent
- The Great Retreat (Timasheff)
- The Third Period (Comintern 1928-1933)
- Collective Security 1933-1939
- The Nazi-Soviet Pact, 1939
- The German Invasion, 22 June 1941
- The beginning of the Cold War
- Identity
- Terror (including the Purges and the Gulag)
- Women
- ‘High Stalinism’
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