HIS 241 (Summer 2022)
12 Week Course Assignment Schedule
20 May Start Date

Grades are recorded in the gradebook in Canvas. For an explanation of the critical course deadlines, highlighted on the schedule in bold, please see the course syllabus.

Week Starts

Topic

Required Assignments and Critical Course Deadlines

Due Date

Possible Points

20
May

Unit 1: Introduction and Themes in Russian History

Introduction paragraph

8 am
27 May

50

26
May

Unit 2: Reaction and Modernization under Alexander III and Nicholas II

Witte paragraph; Last Refund Date/First Assignment Due Date Deadline (1 June)

8 am
3 June

50

2
June

Unit 3: A Silver Age of Russian Culture


Unit 4: Marxism


9
June

Unit 5: 1905

1905 paragraph

8 am
17 June

50

16
June

Unit 6: World War I


23
June

Unit 7: 1917 and Civil War

Midterm Exam Due Date

1 July

200

30
June

Unit 8: NEP and the Roaring 1920s

Lenin's Testament paragraph

8 am
8 July

50

7
July

Unit 9: Stalinism in the 1930s


Unit 10: World War II

Last Withdrawal Date (9 July)

14
July

Unit 11: Cold War Abroad

Secret Speech paragraph

8 am
18 July

50

Unit 12: Thaw at Home

Solzhenitsyn Paper

8 am
22 July

100

21
July

Unit 13: Gorbachev

Gorbachev paragraph

8 am
29 July

50

28
July

Unit 14: The End of the Soviet Union

Russian Culture paper

8 am
5 August

100

4
August

Unit 15: Whither Russia in the Twenty-First Century?

Final exam; Course End Date (11 August)

9 August

250

Any
Week

 

Online Discussion (Post during the course.)

 

50

 

 

TOTAL REQUIRED POINTS

 

1,000

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Course grades are based on the following scale:

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