HIST 336 - Russia’s Holocaust: Life and Death in Stalin’s Time

3 Credit(s)

This course provides students with a better understanding of Josef Stalin’s dictatorship (1929–1953), a period of unparalleled terror and mass repression in the USSR. It will examine Stalin’s personality and policies; the apparatus of terror and repression he employed to gain and maintain power; and the social, economic, political, and cultural consequences of Stalinism for its victims and for the future development of the USSR/Russia.