Fall 2000
Tuesday/Thursday 11:10-12:35

This course examines the goals and dynamics of European revolutions from the French Revolution to the Russian Revolution. Topics include: revolutionary ideologies, class conflict, feminist socialism, and the cultures, representations and mythologies of revolution. We also explore the writings of Rosa Luxemburg, Vladimir Lenin and Emma Goldman.

Bob Weinberg
Trotter 218
8133
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Office Hours: Mondays ( 1-3)
Tuesdays (2-3:30)
Wednesdays (1-4)
And by Appointment

Students will write one midterm essay, one book review, and one ten-page final paper based on a class presentation. In addition, students must attend participate actively in discussions. Attendance is required for all classes, and unexcused absences will result in a lower final grade. All students are expected to read the College's policy on academic honesty and integrity that appears in the Swarthmore College Bulletin. The work you submit must be your own, and suspected plagiarism may subject you to a hearing by the College Judiciary Council.

September 5: Introduction to Course

September 7: Traditional Protest in Eighteenth-Century Europe

E. P. Thompson, "The Moral Economy of the English Crowd"

September 12: 1789--Outbreak of the French Revolution

The Challenge of the West, pp. 684-693
Documents on the French Revolution

September 14: Slide into Terror--Radicalization of the French Revolution

The Challenge of the West, pp. 693-701
Documents on the Terror

September 19: Revolutionary Culture and Politics; Women and Citizenship

Lynn Hunt, Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution, chapters 1, 2 and 3
Documents on Women and Revolution

September 21: Slaves and Citizenship

The Challenge of the West, pp. 705-706
Documents on Haitian Revolution

EVENING LECTURE BY ELENA BONNER

September 26: Jews and Citizenship

Documents on Jewish Emancipation

September 28: Interpreting the French Revolution

Lynn Hunt, Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution, introduction
Selected historiographical essays

October 3: Utopian Socialism and Scientific Socialism

Flora Tristan, "The Workers' Union"

October 5: Revolution at Mid-Century: France

The Challenge of the West, pp. 770-774
Documents on 1848 in France

October 10: Revolution at Mid-Century: Central Europe

The Challenge of the West, pp. 775-779
James Sheehan, "The Frankfurt Parliament and the Dilemmas of Liberty"

FIRST PAPER DUE ON OCTOBER 11

October 12: Prelude to Revolution in Russia: Peasant Socialism

Documents on Russian Populism

October 24: Paris Commune

Gay Gullickson, Unruly Women of Paris: Images of the Commune

October 26: Dilemmas of Reform and Revolution

Rosa Luxemburg vs. Eduard Bernstein

FILM: ROSA LUXEMBURG (2 hours)

October 31: Prelude to Revolution in Russia: The Peculiarities of Russian Marxism

Reginald Zelnik, A Radical Worker in Tsarist Russia, pp. 1-209

November 2: No Class

November 7: Russia on the Verge of Revolution

Shelia Fitzpatrick, The Russian Revolution, pp. 10-33
Vladimir Lenin, "What is to be Done?"
Leon Trotsky, "The Peculiarities of Russia's Development"
Leopold Haimson, "Dual Polarization in Urban Russia, 1905-1917"

NOVEMBER 7: EVENING LECTURE BY MOSHE LEWIN

November 9: Bolshevik Seizure of Power

Sheila Fitzpatrick, The Russian Revolution, pp. 34-60
Alexander Rabinowitch, The Bolsheviks Come to Power

November 14: Revolutionary Visions

Sheila Fitzpatrick, The Russian Revolution, pp. 61-84
Vladimir Lenin on Revolution

November 16: Revolutionary Visions

Documents on Women, Culture and Society

November 21: Representing the Revolution

No Reading

BOOK REVIEW DUE ON NOVEMBER 21

November 28: Fate of the Revolution

Paul Avrich, Kronstadt, 1921

November 30: Fate of the Revolution

Emma Goldman on the Russian Revolution
Documents on Trade Unions and Suppression of Political Dissent

December 5: Class Presentations

December 7: Class Presentations