Undergraduate Course: Stalin's Russia, 1921-1941 (HIST10336)

Course Outline
School	School of History, Classics and Archaeology	College	College of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)	SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate)	Availability	Not available to visiting students
SCQF Credits	40	ECTS Credits	20
Summary	There is a wide variety of published translated Russian primary source material available on this subject, giving the students a chance to engage with the latest debates in Russian history. This period is crucial to understanding the rise and fall of the world's first great socialist experiment, and provides a Russian perspective on important debates in modern history: Did communism offer a more viable model of modernity than capitalism? Why did so many European states turn towards political extremism, violence and dictatorship in the early twentieth century? Why did these tyrannous regimes fail?
Course description	Not entered

Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites		Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations	Students MUST NOT also be taking Stalin's Revolution: The USSR, 1926-1941 (HIST10366)	Other requirements	A pass in 40 credits of third level historical courses or equivalent. Before enrolling students on this course, Personal Tutors are asked to contact the History Honours Admission Secretary to ensure that a place is available (Tel: 503767).

Course Delivery Information
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Learning Outcomes
* advanced knowledge of events in Russia from 1921 to 1941; * the ability to critically assess different historiographical interpretations on the rise of Stalin, the nature of Stalinism and the course of the Great Terror, utilising a wide range of primary sources; * the ability to pursue independent lines of research in gathering material from primary and secondary sources, critically assess them and arrive at their own conclusions; * the ability to independently identify general themes in the history of Stalinism and a mature awareness of the place of these events in the broader context of modern Russian history