Week 1: The Origins of the Perestroika Culture

Wed, August 27

Aleksei Yurchak, Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation, Chapter 1, Conclusion
Clips in class: Karen Shakhnazarov, City Zero (1989), Sergei Kurekhin, Lenin Mushroom (1991)

Week 2: Listening to Wind of Change

Wed, September 3rd

Mikhail Gorbachev, Mikhail Gorbachev's Address at the CPSU Central Committee, January 8, 1 988 pp.1-19
Scorpions - Live at Moscow Music Peace Festival 1989 (watch first 5 min)
Baysha, Olga “Discourses of Perestroika,” in The Mythologies of Capitalism and the End of the Soviet Project, pp. 39-55
Dallin, Alexander, Post-Soviet Affairs 8 (4), 1992. 279–302.

Please sing-up for Oral Presentation 1
 

Week 3: Broadcasting the The Fall

Mon, September 8th

Stephen Kotkin, “Waiting for the End of the World,” in Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000, pp. 86-113
and we'll finish with Olga Baysha - The discourses of Perestroika.pdf in The Mythologies of Capitalism and the End of the Soviet Project, pp. 39-55 and Alexander Dallin_Cause of the Collapse.pdf Post-Soviet Affairs 8 (4), 1992. 279–302.

Clips in Class: Pilot Studio, Yeltsin and the GKChP (1991)

Wednesday, September 10th

Sergei Loznitsa, The Event (2015)