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Unit I: Creating the Soviet Empire
Week 4: Non-Territorial Nationalities
Sept. 14: Stalin’s Forgotten Zion
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Week 5: Multiple Topics
Sept. 21: New Soviet Gypsies
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Unit II: Empire as Modernization
Sept. 23: Central Asia and Modernization
Timera Toppin
Kellie Lesniak
Week 6: Central Asia and Gender
Sept. 28: Turksib, Woven portraits
Blake Aber
Sarah Dugan
Sept. 30: Veiled Empire, ch. 1-2
Sydney Kightlinger
Christian Rohrer
Week 7: Central Asia and Gender Continued
Oct. 5: Veiled Empire, ch. 4-5
Timera Toppin
Hunter O’Clair
Unit III: Empire and Creativity
Week 9: Theater
Oct. 19: Beau Monde on Empire’s Edge, ch. 1-2
Blake Aber
Hunter O’Clair
Oct. 21: Beau monde on Empire’s Edge, ch. 3-4
Dom Emerick
Kellie Lesniak
Week 10: Theater Continued
Oct. 26: The Twelve Chairs
Michael Vittone
Sydney Kightlinger
Week 11: Music
Nov. 2: Soviet National Minority Music
Garrett Hampton
Will Paczkoskie
Week 12: Music Continued
Nov. 11: Music and National Identity
Sarah Dugan
Garrett Hampton
Week 13: Architecture
Nov. 16: Tashkent: Forging a Soviet City, ch. 2, 3, 6
Christian Rohrer
Dom Emerick
Nov. 18: Tashkent: Forging a Soviet City, ch. 6, 7, 8
Will Paczkoskie
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