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Laurie Bernstein’s curriculum vitae

Fall 2013

HISTORY 510:377
THE RUSSIAN EXPERIENCE
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9:30-10:50 am

Required books:

  • Barbara Engel and Anastasia Posadskaya-Vanderbeck, A Revolution of their Own: Voices of Women in Soviet History (Westview Press, 1997)
    ISBN 0813333660
  • Maurice Hindus, Red Bread: Collectivization in a Russian Village (Indiana University Press, 1988)
    ISBN-10: 0253204852
  • Moyshe Kulbak, The Zelmenyaners: A Family Saga (Yale University Press, 2012)
    ISBN 0300112327
  • Isaac Babel, Red Cavalry and Other Stories (Penguin Classics, 2006)
    ISBN-10: 0140449973

Spring 2013

HISTORY 510:376
REVOLUTIONARY AND COMMUNIST RUSSIA
376 syllabus
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9:30-10:50 am in Armitage 220

Required books:

  • Nicholas Riasanovsky and Mark Steinberg, A History of Russia since 1855,* VOLUME TWO 8th edition (*This book is only for students who do not already have Riasanovsky and Steinberg, A History of Russia)
    New York: Oxford University Press, 2010
    ISBN 0195341996
  • Eugenia Ginzburg, Journey into the Whirlwind
    Mariner Books, 2002
    ISBN 0156027518
  • Mary Leder, My Life in Stalinist Russia: An American Woman Looks Back
    Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2001
    ISBN 0253214424
  • Yevgeny Zamiatin, We
    Harper Voyager, 2001
    ISBN 0380633132

Historical documents and secondary sources are posted on Sakai Resources