This page contains lecture slides from presentations accompanying some class sessions.
Lecture notes files.
| LEC # |
TOPICS |
LECTURES |
| Part One: Introduction |
| Week 1: What is a Revolution? |
| 1 |
Introduction |
(PDF) |
| 2 |
Recitation: definitions of revolution |
| Part Two: Inventing the People |
| Weeks 2-4: Athenian Revolution |
| 3 |
Introduction to inventing the people |
(PDF - 3.4 MB) |
| 4 |
Oligarchy, democracy, and tyranny: 600-400 BC |
(PDF) |
| 6 |
The emergence of the Athenian demos: 594 BC |
(PDF) |
| 7 |
Popular action and constitutional reform: 508/7 BC |
(PDF) |
| 9 |
Democracy top to bottom: 462-450 BC |
(PDF) |
| Weeks 5-6: Atlantic Revolutions |
| 12 |
French Revolution |
(PDF - 7.3 MB) |
| 14 |
Haitian Revolution |
(PDF - 4.8 MB) |
| Part Three: Inventing the Modern State |
| Weeks 7-8: Russian Revolution |
| 16 |
Introduction to inventing the modern state: empires, states, and peoples in Russia and China |
(PDF) |
| 17 |
Russia's ancien regime; 19th century revolutionary traditions; the Revolution of 1905 |
(PDF) |
| 19 |
1917: the Bolshevik seizure of power |
(PDF - 2.5 MB) |
| 20 |
The Bolsheviks consolidate their rule; the end of revolution? 1917-1926 |
(PDF - 4.2 MB) |
| Weeks 9-11: Chinese Revolution |
| 22 |
The Qing dynasty and Western imperialism |
(PDF) |
| 23 |
The collapse of the Qing and creation of the Republic, 1911-1927 |
(PDF) |
| 25 |
The Nationalist Party and the War of Resistance against Japan |
(PDF - 1.6 MB) |
| 26 |
The Communist Party, the Yenan way, and the Civil War, 1927-1949 |
(PDF) |
| 28 |
The Maoist era, 1949-1976; reform and the end of revolution? |
(PDF) |
