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Lecture Notes



Lecture Notes

This page contains lecture slides from presentations accompanying some class sessions.


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Part One: Introduction
Week 1: What is a Revolution?
1Introduction(PDF)
2Recitation: definitions of revolution
Part Two: Inventing the People
Weeks 2-4: Athenian Revolution
3Introduction to inventing the people(PDF - 3.4 MB)
4Oligarchy, democracy, and tyranny: 600-400 BC(PDF)
6The emergence of the Athenian demos: 594 BC(PDF)
7Popular action and constitutional reform: 508/7 BC(PDF)
9Democracy top to bottom: 462-450 BC(PDF)
Weeks 5-6: Atlantic Revolutions
12French Revolution(PDF - 7.3 MB)
14Haitian Revolution(PDF - 4.8 MB)
Part Three: Inventing the Modern State
Weeks 7-8: Russian Revolution
16Introduction to inventing the modern state: empires, states, and peoples in Russia and China(PDF)
17Russia's ancien regime; 19th century revolutionary traditions; the Revolution of 1905(PDF)
191917: the Bolshevik seizure of power(PDF - 2.5 MB)
20The Bolsheviks consolidate their rule; the end of revolution? 1917-1926(PDF - 4.2 MB)
Weeks 9-11: Chinese Revolution
22The Qing dynasty and Western imperialism(PDF)
23The collapse of the Qing and creation of the Republic, 1911-1927(PDF)
25The Nationalist Party and the War of Resistance against Japan(PDF - 1.6 MB)
26The Communist Party, the Yenan way, and the Civil War, 1927-1949(PDF)
28The Maoist era, 1949-1976; reform and the end of revolution?(PDF)

 








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