History Assignment

1) Essay # 2 (Document Analysis, 15% of the final mark): By the beginning of class on April 5 , you will submit through the Moodle an analysis of one of the following historical documents:

1. A Ukrainian Priest’s Son Remembers His Father’s Life and Ministry, in Heather J. Coleman (ed.), The Orthodox Christianity in Imperial Russia: A Sourcebook of Lived Religion (2014), 107-130

2. Sermons of the Crimean War, Heather J. Coleman (ed.), The Orthodox Christianity in Imperial Russia: A Sourcebook of Lived Religion (2014), 72-84.

3. Constantine Pobedonostsev Attacks Democracy, 1896, in Basil Dmytryshyn (ed.), Imperial Russia: A Sourcebook, 1700-1917 (New York: Holt, Reinhart and Winston, 1967), 337-352.

4. Rasputin: The Holy Devil, in Basil Dmytryshyn ed., Imperial Russia, 360-371.

5. Mensheviks, On the Seizure of Power and Participation in Provisional Government

6. Lenin, State and Revolution, 1917

7. Joseph Stalin, The National Question in Russia, 1913

8. Alexandra Kollontai, Communism and the Family, 1920

9. Lenin, Political Testament

10. Stalin, Industrialization, 1928

11. Stalin, Dizzy with Success, 1930

12. Stalin, On the Tasks of Workers in the Economy, 1931, Suny, The Structure of Soviet History, 333-334.

13. Rapprochement between the Orthodox Church and Soviet Government

14. Joseph Stalin, Reply to Churchill, 1946

15. George F. ("X") Kennan, Sources of Soviet Conduct. 1947

16. Novikov’s Telegram, 1946

17. Nikita Khrushchev, Address to the UN General Assembly, 1960

18. Treatment of Soviet Dissidents in the Years of Stagnation

19. The Brezhnev Doctrine, 1968

20. Nina, Andreeva, I Cannot Give Up My Principles, Suny, The Structure of Soviet History, 503-512

In your work on this assignment, you should follow the same document analysis guidelines that are uploaded to the Moodle in a separate file. Your essay should be appropriately footnoted and should cite at least four relevant secondary sources of scholarly nature (books, book chapters, journal articles, but not websites!)