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Part One: Introduction
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| Week 1: What is a Revolution? |
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Introduction |
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Recitation: definitions of revolution |
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Part Two: Inventing the People
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| Weeks 2-4: Athenian Revolution |
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Introduction to inventing the people |
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Oligarchy, democracy, and tyranny: 600-400 BC |
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Recitation: metastasis and revolution in the Athenian Constitution |
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The emergence of the Athenian demos: 594 BC |
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Popular action and constitutional reform: 508/7 BC |
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Recitation: when is a democracy not a democracy? |
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Democracy top to bottom: 462-450 BC |
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| 10 |
Recitation: How Revolting? Wallace vs. Ober vs. Raaflaub |
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| Weeks 5-6: Atlantic Revolutions |
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American Revolution |
Paper 1 due |
| 12 |
French Revolution |
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| 13 |
Recitation: declarations of rights: America and France |
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| 14 |
Haitian Revolution |
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| 15 |
Recitation: framing constitutions in the U.S., France, and Haiti |
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Part Three: Inventing the Modern State
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| Weeks 7-8: Russian Revolution |
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Introduction to inventing the modern state: empires, states, and peoples in Russia and China |
Paper 1 revisions due |
| 17 |
Russia's ancien regime; 19th century revolutionary traditions; the Revolution of 1905 |
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| 18 |
Recitation: how European was the Russian Revolution? |
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| 19 |
1917: the Bolshevik seizure of power |
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| 20 |
The Bolsheviks consolidate their rule; the end of revolution? 1917-1926 |
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| 21 |
Recitation: who led the revolution, the Party or the masses? |
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| Weeks 9-11: Chinese Revolution |
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The Qing dynasty and Western imperialism |
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| 23 |
The collapse of the Qing and creation of the Republic, 1911-1927 |
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| 24 |
Recitation: reform vs. revolution: a debate |
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The Nationalist Party and the War of Resistance against Japan |
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The Communist Party, the Yenan way, and the Civil War, 1927-1949 |
Paper 2 due |
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Recitation: countryside and revolution: Nationalists and Communists |
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| 28 |
The Maoist era, 1949-1976; reform and the end of revolution? |
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| 29 |
Recitation: assessing Mao's legacy |
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| Weeks 12-13: Reagan Revolution |
| 30 |
Introduction to reinventing revolution |
Paper 2 revisions due |
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Revolt against liberalism |
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Reaganomics |
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Morning in America |
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| 34 |
Recitation: Reagan revolution: myth or reality |
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| Week 14: Other Revolutions? |
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U.S. and the world |
Paper 3 due |
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1989 |
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| 37 |
Recitation: revolution in the global age |
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| Week 15: Concluding Thoughts |
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Revolution in the Middle East |
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Panel discussion: the future of revolution? |
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