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On completion of this module, students should be able to:
1. Demonstrate detailed knowledge of the events, actors and processes in Russia’s revolutionary history.
2. Critically engage with a variety of primary and secondary material.
3. Evaluate conflicting interpretations of the events of 1917, their causes and consequences.
4. Write scholarly essays to the standard of a level 3 student of history.
5. Assess and analyse key themes, readings and debates in class discussions.
The module will cover the following areas:
Week 1: Russia in 1900
Week 2: 1905
Week 3: The constitutional experiment, 1906-1914
Week 4: The changing face of society to 1914
Week 5: Russia and the First World War
Week 6: The February revolution and the transition to Dual Power
Week 7: March to October 1917 in city and countryside
[Reading weeks]
Week 8: The Bolshevik rise to power
Week 9: The civil war years
Week 10: Revolutionary dreams: Cultures of power
Week 11: Party, state and society to 1921
Student Effort Type | Hours |
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Lectures | 11 |
Seminar (or Webinar) | 4 |
Specified Learning Activities | 50 |
Autonomous Student Learning | 50 |
Total | 115 |
Not applicable to this module.
Description | Timing | Component Scale | % of Final Grade | ||
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Assignment: 1,000 word primary source document analysis | Week 7 | n/a | Graded | No | 40 |
Essay: 2,000 word essay | Week 12 | n/a | Graded | No | 60 |
Resit In | Terminal Exam |
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Autumn | No |
• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
Feedback on the mid-term primary source analysis assessment is provided in writing on the returned hard copy. Feedback on the end of semester 2000-word essay assignment is given by appointment in one-to-one meetings.