Check here to see which days you signed up for this role! Here is the assignment (also available on your syllabus):
Blog Posts: Beginning in Week 3, you will work together to create a blog, which will help shape our intellectual journey. You will sign up for TWO days on which you commit to writing a lead blog post and initiating our classroom discussion. Your post should be roughly one page in length and respond thoughtfully and substantively to the assigned materials. In addition, your post should include at least one discussion question. Alongside your lead posts, you must write TWELVE comments responding to your colleagues’ lead posts over the course of the semester. (You are welcome to write more, but 12 is the minimum.) All posts are due by 10pm the night before class (so I have time to read them and think about them before we meet). This is your blog, and it will have a big impact on the direction we take in our classroom discussions! Please be creative, have fun, and keep it respectful!
Unit I: POLITICAL REVOLUTION
Sept. 11: The Decembrist Revolt
Dasha Sowell
Misha Lerner
Sept. 13: The Revolutionary Great Reforms
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Sept 18: The Revolutions of 1905 and 1917 and Their Aftermath
Ian Fries
Sept. 20: Revolutionary De-Stalinization
Brendan Bender
Unit II: SOCIAL REVOLUTION
Sept. 25: Peter’s Social Revolution
Danielle Thompson
Dasha Sowell
Sept. 27: Catherine’s Educational and Publishing Revolutions
Rose Driver
Danielle Thompson
Oct. 2: Peasant Rebellions
Tom Ikeda
Oct. 4: Conquest and Revolt in the Caucasus
Chance Robbins
Oct. 9: Soviet Social Revolution
Jack Beardslee
Misha Lerner
Oct. 11: The Revolutionary Idea of Human Rights
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Unit III: CULTURAL REVOLUTION
Oct. 25: Peter’s Cultural Revolution
Ian Fries
Oct. 30: Pushkin’s Literary Revolution
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Nov. 1: The Intelligentsia I: Revolutionary Awakening
Tom Ikeda
Nov. 6: the Intelligentsia II: Radical Revolutionaries
Jack Beardslee
Nov. 8: Soviet Revolutionary Rituals
Chance Robbins
Nov. 13: Revolutionizing the Arts: Socialist Realism
Rose Driver
Nov. 15: Rock for un-Revolutionary Youth
Brendan Bender
Nov. 20: And We All Fall Down: Revolutionary Collapse
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