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Part One: Introduction
Week 1: What is a Revolution?
1Introduction
2Recitation: definitions of revolution
Part Two: Inventing the People
Weeks 2-4: Athenian Revolution
3Introduction to inventing the people
4Oligarchy, democracy, and tyranny: 600-400 BC
5Recitation: metastasis and revolution in the Athenian Constitution
6The emergence of the Athenian demos: 594 BC
7Popular action and constitutional reform: 508/7 BC
8Recitation: when is a democracy not a democracy?
9Democracy top to bottom: 462-450 BC
10Recitation: How Revolting? Wallace vs. Ober vs. Raaflaub
Weeks 5-6: Atlantic Revolutions
11American RevolutionPaper 1 due
12French Revolution
13Recitation: declarations of rights: America and France
14Haitian Revolution
15Recitation: framing constitutions in the U.S., France, and Haiti
Part Three: Inventing the Modern State
Weeks 7-8: Russian Revolution
16Introduction to inventing the modern state: empires, states, and peoples in Russia and ChinaPaper 1 revisions due
17Russia's ancien regime; 19th century revolutionary traditions; the Revolution of 1905
18Recitation: how European was the Russian Revolution?
191917: the Bolshevik seizure of power
20The Bolsheviks consolidate their rule; the end of revolution? 1917-1926
21Recitation: who led the revolution, the Party or the masses?
Weeks 9-11: Chinese Revolution
22The Qing dynasty and Western imperialism
23The collapse of the Qing and creation of the Republic, 1911-1927
24Recitation: reform vs. revolution: a debate
25The Nationalist Party and the War of Resistance against Japan
26The Communist Party, the Yenan way, and the Civil War, 1927-1949Paper 2 due
27Recitation: countryside and revolution: Nationalists and Communists
28The Maoist era, 1949-1976; reform and the end of revolution?
29Recitation: assessing Mao's legacy
Weeks 12-13: Reagan Revolution
30Introduction to reinventing revolutionPaper 2 revisions due
31Revolt against liberalism
32Reaganomics
33Morning in America
34Recitation: Reagan revolution: myth or reality
Week 14: Other Revolutions?
35U.S. and the worldPaper 3 due
361989
37Recitation: revolution in the global age
Week 15: Concluding Thoughts
38Revolution in the Middle East
39Panel discussion: the future of revolution?

 








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