University of Calgary Department of History Winter 2009

Lecturer: Dr Alexander Hill Class Time: Tuesday, 14:00 Telephone: 220 6419 or Main Office 220 6401

Location: SS 613

Office: Social Sciences 620 Office Hours: Tuesday 11-12 and Thursday 2-3

Email: hilla@ucalgary.ca

HTST 545.09 (was HTST 545.03) The Great Patriotic War

A soviet soldier stands guard over imported US lorries, Iran, 1942, and Soviet T-34/85, 1945. The war between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany lasted from June 1941 to May 1945 and remains one of the bloodiest wars in human history. Irrecoverable losses in the Soviet armed forces alone were in the region of 8,668,400, of which 12,031 were lost in the war with Japan.1 To these figures one has to add the millions of Axis casualties and civilian war-related deaths. The shocking death toll from the war in the East was in part a result of the tremendous killing power of modern weaponry employed on an unprecedented scale. But the cost of the war was exacerbated by the fact that this technology was employed in a war between two regimes whose leaders shared an unflinching commitment to their respective causes which justified disregard for human life and the human and material costs of seeing their bidding done. This disregard extended not only to the enemy but to their own combatants and to some extent civilian populations.

This course will examine Soviet preparations for and conduct of this war, known in the Soviet Union as the Great Patriotic War, as well as briefly considering the ramifications of the war for the post-war Soviet Union.

A ‘basic’ reading list is provided on page 3 of this outline, and additional material will is listed for subsequent seminars on the subsequent pages. Topics for each seminar are provided overleaf. Details of assessment are provided on page 12.

1 G.F. Krivosheev (ed.), Soviet Casualties and Combat Losses in the Twentieth Century (London:

Greenhill Books, 1997), pp.84-6.

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Seminar Outline:

1) Tuesday 13 January – Introduction – The Soviet Union from Lenin to Stalin [Documentary]

2) 20 January – War and the Soviet economic transformation 1928-1941

3) 27 January – Political repression in the Soviet Union 1928-1941 [Short film]

4) 3 February – [Long essay proposal due] The Soviet Union on the international

stage 1927-1941

5) 10 February – [Source question] German invasion and the Soviet response June-December 1941 [Documentary]

6) 17 February – Reading Week

7) 24 February – When was the German invasion foiled? Smolensk and Moscow

Stalingrad and the issue of turning points [Documentary]

8) 3 March – [Article response due] [continuation of Week 7 material]

9) 10 March – The war behind German lines – the Soviet partisan movement and the war effort

10) 17 March – The Soviet rear – the civilian population during the war [Film]

11) 24 March – How important was Allied aid to the Soviet Union during the war?

12) 31 March – [Long essay due] From Stalingrad to Berlin – why did the war

drag on so long? [Documentary]

13) 7 April – [Quiz] The War at Sea/The War in the Far East

14) 14 April - [Source questions] Why was the human cost of the war so great for the Soviet Union? The Impact of the War on the Soviet Union

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Basic Reading: Soviet History – General Hosking, G., A History of the Soviet Union 1917-1991 Nove, A., An Economic History of the USSR 1917-199 There are many other suitable titles in this category The Great Patriotic War – General material Hill, A. (ed.), The Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union, 1941-1945: A documentary reader [A copy should be available on reserve during the first weeks of the semester] Krivosheev, G.F. (ed.), Soviet Casualties and Combat Losses in the Twentieth Century Mawdsley, E., Thunder in the East [Course text – for purchase at the U. of C. bookshop] Overy, R., Russia’s War [Additional text for purchase] Werth, A., Russia at War 1941-1945 The Great Patriotic War – Military/diplomatic Bellamy, C., Absolute War: Soviet Russia in the Second World War Erickson, J., The Road to Stalingrad Erickson, J., The Road to Berlin Glantz, D.M., Colossus Reborn: The Red Army At War, 1941-1943 Glantz, D. and House, J., When Titan’s Clashed [Course text – for purchase at the U. of C. bookshop] Mawdsley, E., “Stalin: Victors are not Judged”, in Journal of Slavic Military Studies, Volume 19, Number 4 (December 2006), pp.705-725 Roberts, G., Stalin’s Wars The Great Patriotic War – German perspectives Boog, H. et al, Germany and the Second World War (Volumes IV and VI) The Great Patriotic War – Economy and Domestic Affairs Barber, J., and Harrison, M., The Soviet Home Front 1941-1945 Harrison, M., Accounting for War Journals The Journal of Slavic Military Studies is available from 2004 onwards online.

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Seminar reading: Week 2 War and the Soviet economic transformation 1928-1941 Davies, R.W. The Soviet Economy in Turmoil 1929-1930 (Ch.12) Gorodetsky, G. Grand Delusion – Stalin and the German Invasion of Russia Hill, A. “Stalin and the West”, in Martel G. (ed.), A Companion to

International History 1900-2001 [BLACKBOARD] Mawdsley, E., The Stalin Years – The Soviet Union 1929-1953 (Ch.2) Tucker, R.C. Stalin in Power – The Revolution from Above 1928-1941 Samuelson, L. “Mikhail Tukhachevsky and War-Economic Planning:

Reconsiderations on the Pre-war Soviet Military Build-Up”, in Journal of Slavic Military Studies, Vol.9, No.4 (Dec. 1996)

Samuelson, L. Plans for Stalin’s War Machine – Tukhachevskii and Military Economic Planning 1925-1941

Stone, D. Hammer and Rifle – The Militarization of the SU 1926-1933 Stone, D. “The First Five-Year Plan and the Geography of the Soviet

Defence Industry”, in Europe-Asia Studies Vol. 57, No. 7 (2005)

Tucker, R.C. Stalin in Power – The Revolution from Above 1928-1941 Week 3 Political repression in the Soviet Union 1928-1941 The ‘Great Purges’ (general):

Fitzpatrick, S. “Stalin and the making of a new elite 1928-1939”, in Slavic Review (SR) 38 (1979) 377-402, with discussion in SR 39 (1980) 286-91.

Getty, J. ““Excesses are not permitted”: Mass Terror and Stalinist Governance in the Late 1930s”, in Russian Review 61 (January 2002), pp.113-38.

Getty, J. & Naumov, O. The Road to Terror: Stalin and the Self-Destruction of the Bolsheviks, 1932-1939

Khlevniuk, O. “The Objectives of the Great Terror, 1937-38”, in Cooper, J., et al, Soviet History 1917-53

Ilic, M. “The Great Terror in Leningrad – A Quantitative Analysis”, in Europe-Asia Studies 2000 52(8), pp1515-1534.

Tucker, R.C. Stalin in Power: The Stalinist Revolution from Above 1928-1941

Volkogonov, D. Stalin: Triumph and Tragedy The ‘Great Purges’ and the Soviet armed forces:

Mil’bach, V.S. Mil’bach, V.S.

“Political Repression of the Pacific Ocean Fleet Commanders and Chiefs in 1939-1939”, in Journal of Slavic Military Studies, 2008 21(1), pp. 53-112. “Repression in the 57th Special Corps (Mongolian People’s Republic)”, in Journal of Slavic Military Studies, 2002 15(1), pp. 91-122 [BLACKBOARD].

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Mil’bach, V.S “Repression in the Red Army in the Far East, 1936-1939”, in Journal of Slavic Military Studies, 2003 16(4), pp. 58-130 [BLACKBOARD].

Reese, R.R. Stalin’s Reluctant Soldiers (Chapter 5) Week 4 The Soviet Union on the European Diplomatic Stage 1927-1941 Flory, H. “The Arcos raid and the rupture of Anglo-Soviet relations”,

in Journal of Contemporary History (JCH) 12 (1977) 707-23.

Gorodetsky, G. Grand Delusion: Stalin and the German Invasion of Russia Haslam, J. The Soviet Union and the Struggle for Collective Security

in Europe 1933-9 Haslam, J. The Soviet Union and the threat from the East, 1933-41 :

Moscow, Tokyo, and the prelude to the Pacific War Hill, A. Hill, A.

“The Icebreaker Controversy and Soviet Intentions in 1941: …”, in Journal of Slavic Military Studies 21.1 (January-March 2008) pp.113-128. “Stalin and the West”, in Martel G. (ed.), A Companion to International History 1900 -2001 [BLACKBOARD]

Humpert, D. “Viktor Suvorov and Operation Barbarossa: Tukhachevskii Revisited”, in Journal of Slavic Military Studies, Vol. 18, No.1 (2005).

Jacobson, J. “On the Historiography of Soviet Foreign Relations in the 1920s”, in International History Review (Canada) 18,2 (1996), 336-57.

Jukes, G. “The Red Army and the Munich crisis”, in JCH 26 (1991) 195-214.

Mawdsley, E. ‘Crossing the Rubicon: Soviet Plans for Offensive War in 1940-1941’, in International History Review (Canada), 25, 4 (2003) 818-865.

Förster, Jürgen and Mawdsley, Evan

“Hitler and Stalin in Perspective: Secret Speeches on the Eve of Barbarossa”, in War in History [Great Britain] Vol. 11, No. 1 (2004), 61-103.

Roberts, G. “The fall of Litvinov: A revisionist view”, in JCH 27 (1992), 639-58.

Roberts, G. “The Soviet decision for a pact with Nazi Germany”, in Soviet Studies 44,1 (1992), 57-78.

Suvorov, Viktor “Who was planning to attack whom in June 1941, Hitler or Stalin?”, in Journal of the Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies [Great Britain] 130(2) (1985), 50-55 [BLACKBOARD].

Uldricks, T. “The Icebreaker Controversy: Did Stalin Plan to Attack Hitler?”, in Slavic Review, Vol. 58, No. 3 (Autumn 1999), 626-643.

Wegner, B. (ed.) From Peace to War – Germany, Soviet Russia and the World 1939-1941

Week 5 German invasion and the Soviet response June-December 1941 The Soviet Armed Forces on the Eve of War:

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Brement, Marshall, “Khalkin-Gol”, in MHQ – The Quarterly Journal of Military History 1993 5(3). Coox, A., Nomohan: Japan Against Russia, 1939 Eliseeva, N. E.; Glantz, David M., “Plans for the development of the Worker’s and Peasants Red Army (RKKA) on the Eve of War”, in Journal of Slavic Military Studies [Great Britain] 8(2) (1995) 356-365. Glantz, D., Stumbling Colossus – The Red Army on the Eve… Lukinov, M. I., “Notes on the Polish Campaign (1939) and the War with Finland (1939-1940)”, in Journal of Slavic Military Studies 2001 14(3). Van Dyke, C., The Soviet Invasion of Finland The Soviet Response to German Invasion: Barber, J., “The Moscow Crisis of October 1941”, in Cooper, J. et al (eds.), Soviet History 1917-1953 Braithwaite, R., Moscow 1941: A City and its People at War Glantz, D.M., Colossus Reborn: The Red Army at War, 1941-1943 Hosking, G., “The Second World War and Soviet National Consciousness”, in Past and Present, Volume 175, No.1 (2002). Kravchenko, V., I Chose Freedom – The Personal and Political Life of a Soviet Official. Reinhardt, K., [Moscow 1941] “The Turning Point”, in Erickson and Dilks, Barbarossa –The Axis and the Allies Volkogonov, D., “Sunday 22nd June 1941”, in Erickson and Dilks, Barbarossa – The Axis and the Allies Weeks 7-8 When was the Nazi invasion foiled? Smolensk, Moscow and Stalingrad and the issue of turning points Beevor, A., Stalingrad Craig, W., Enemy at the Gates Fugate, B., and Dvoretsky, L., Thunder on the Dnepr Glantz, D.M. (ed.), The Initial Period on the Eastern Front 22 June-August 1941 Glantz, D.M., Kharkov – Anatomy of a Military Disaster Glantz, D.M., “Prelude to German Operatiom Blau: Military Operations on Germany’s Eastern Front, April-June 1942”, in Journal of Slavic Military Studies, Volume 20, Number 2 (April-June 2007), pp.171-234. Glantz, D.M., “The Red Army’s Donbass Offensive (February-March 1942) Revisited: A Documentary Essay”, in Journal of Slavic Military Studies, Volume 18, Number 3 (September 2005), pp.369-503. Glantz, D.M., “The Struggle for Stalingrad City:…”, in Journal of Slavic Military Studies 21.1 (January-March 2008) pp.146-238 and 21.2 (April-June 2008) pp.377-471. Glantz, D.M., and House, J., Zhukhov’s Greatest Defeat: The Red Army’s Epic Disaster in Operation Mars, 1942 Reinhardt, K., [Moscow 1941] “The Turning Point”, in Erickson and Dilks, Barbarossa –The Axis and the Allies Seaton, A., The Battle for Moscow Seaton, A., The Russo-German War 1941-1945 Stolfi, R.H.S., Hitler’s Panzer’s East: World War II Reinterpreted Stolfi, R.H.S., “Barbarossa Revisited: A Critical Reappraisal of the Opening Stages of the Russo-German Campaign (June-December 1941)”, in Journal of Modern History 54 (March 1982) 27-46 [Article response text]. Tver’, T.M., “The Battle of Rzhev: Ideology Instead of Statistics”, in Journal of Slavic Military Studies, Volume 18, Number 3 (September 2005), pp. 359-368.

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Week 9 The War Behind the German Lines – The Soviet Partisan Movement and the Soviet War Effort The Soviet Partisan Movement Armstrong, J., Soviet Partisans in World War Two Grenkevich, L., The Soviet Partisan Movement 1941-1945 – A Critical Historiography Hill, A., “The Partisan War in North-West Russia 1941-1944 : A re-assessment”, Journal of Strategic Studies, Volume 25, Number 3 (September 2002). Hill, A., The War Behind the Eastern Front: The Soviet Partisan Movement in North-West Russia 1941-1944 Hill, A., “War on the Eastern Front 1941-1945: Myths and Realities”, in The Historian (spring 2002). Howell, E., The Soviet Partisan Movement 1941-1944. Department of the Army Pamphlet 20-244 (August 1956) [BLACKBOARD]. Maslov, A., “Concerning the Role of Partisan Warfare in Soviet Military Doctrine of the 1920s and 1930s”, in Journal of Slavic Military Studies Vol.9, No.4 (Dec. 1996). Zarubinsky, O., “The ‘Red’ Partisan Movement in the Ukraine During World War II: A Contemporary Assessment”, in Journal of Slavic Military Studies, Vol.9, No.2 (June 1996). Axis Occupation Anderson, T., “Incident at Baranivka: German Reprisals and the Soviet Partisan Movement in Ukraine October-December 1941”, in Journal of Modern History 1999 71(3): 585-623. Berkhoff, K., Harvest of despair : life and death in Ukraine under Nazi rule Dallin, A., German Rule in Russia 1941-1945: A Study of occupation policy Mulligan, T., The Politics of Illusion and Empire: German occupation policy in the Soviet Union 1941-1943 Mulligan, T., “Reckoning the Cost of the People’s War: The German Experience in the Central USSR”, in Russian History Vol.9, Pt.1 (1982) [BLACKBOARD]. Schulte, T., The German army and Nazi policies in occupied Russia Shepherd, B., “Hawks, doves and Tote Zonen: A German security division in central Russia 1943”, in Journal of Contemporary History 37(3) (July 2002). Shepherd, B., War in the Wild East: the German Army and Soviet partisans Shepherd, B., ‘Wehrmacht Security Regiments in the Soviet Partisan War, 1943’, in European History Quarterly [Great Britain] 2003 33(4): 493-529. Steinberg, J., “The Third Reich Reflected: German Civil Administration in the Occupied Soviet Union, 1941-4”, in English Historical Review (June 1995) and Martel, G. (ed.), The World War Two Reader Ungváry, K., “Hungarian Occupation forces in the Ukraine 1941-1942: The Historiographical Context”, in Journal of Slavic Military Studies, Volume 20, Number 1 (January-March 2007), pp.81-120. Zarubinsky, O., “Collaboration of the Population in Occupied Ukrainian Territory: Some Aspects of the Overall Picture”, in Journal of Slavic Military Studies, Vol. 10, No.2 (June 1997) [BLACKBOARD]. Week 10 The Soviet Rear – The Civilian Population General Barber, J., and Harrison, M., The Soviet Home Front 1941-1945 Werth, A, Russia at War 1941-1945

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On German Occupied Territory Armstrong, J., Soviet Partisans in World War Two Berkhoff, K., Harvest of despair : life and death in Ukraine under Nazi rule Dallin, A., German Rule in Russia 1941-1945: A Study of occupation policy Hill, A., The War Behind the Eastern Front: The Soviet Partisan Movement in North-West Russia 1941-1944 Mulligan, T., The Politics of Illusion and Empire: German occupation policy in the Soviet Union 1941-1943 Schulte, T., The German army and Nazi policies in occupied Russia The siege of Leningrad Bidlack, R., “The Political Mood in Leningrad during the First Year of the Soviet-German War”, in Russian Review 59 (1) 2000 pp.96-113. Bidlack, R. (Foreword), Writing the Siege of Leningrad – Women’s Diaries, Memoirs and Documentary Prose Glantz, D., The Siege of Leningrad 1941-1944 – 900 Days of Terror Salisbury, H., 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad Werth, A., Russia at War 1941-1945 Week 11 How important was Allied aid to the Soviet Union during the war? Harrison, M., Accounting for War – Soviet production, employment, and the defence burden, 1940-1945 Harrison, M., Soviet Planning in Peace and War 1938-1945 Hill, A., “The Allocation of Allied “Lend-Lease” Aid to the Soviet Union Arriving with Convoy PQ-12, March 1942 – A State Defense Committee Decree”, in Journal of Slavic Military Studies, Volume 19, Number 4 (December 2006), pp. 727-738. Hill, A., “British Lend-Lease Aid and the Soviet War Effort, June 1941-June 1942”, in Journal of Military History, Volume 71, Number 3 (July 2007), pp.773-808. Hill, A., “War on the Eastern Front 1941-1945: Myths and Realities”, in The Historian (spring 2002). Munting, R., “Lend-Lease and the Soviet War Effort”, in Journal of Contemporary History 19 (3) (1984) pp. 495-510. Jones, R.H., The Roads to Russia : United States lend-lease to the Soviet Union Lucas, R.C., Eagles East : the Army Air Forces and the Soviet Union, 1941-1945 Munting, R., “Soviet Food Supply and Allied Aid in the War, 1941-1945”., in Soviet Studies 36 (4) (1984) pp.582-593. Sapir, Jacques, “The Economics of War in the Soviet Union during World War II”, in Kershaw and Lewin (eds.), Stalinism and Nazism: Dictatorships in Comparison, pp.208-236. Sokolov, Boris V., The Role of Lend-Lease in Soviet Military Efforts, 1941-1945, in Journal of Slavic Military Studies [Great Britain] 7(3) (1994) 567-586 [BLACKBOARD]. Van Tuyll, H., Feeding the Bear: American Aid to the Soviet Union, 1941-1945 Vorsin, V., “Motor Vehicle Transport Deliveries Through ‘Lend-Lease’”, in Journal of Slavic Military Studies 10.2 (June 1997) pp.153-175 [BLACKBOARD]. Week 12 From Stalingrad to Berlin: Why did the war drag on so long? Much of the general reading will be useful for this question, but the following are either particularly focussed or particularly valuable:

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Beevor, A. The Fall of Berlin Boog, H. et al, Germany and the Second World War (Volume VI) Erickson, J., The Road to Berlin Gebhardt, J.F., The Petsamo-Kirkenes Operation : Soviet breakthrough and pursuit in the Arctic, October 1944 (Leavenworth papers ; no. 17) Glantz, David M. and Orenstein, H.S. (eds. and trans.), Belorussia 1944: The Soviet General Staff Study Glantz, David M. …, The battle for Kursk, 1943 : the Soviet General Staff study Glantz, David M. …, The battle for L’vov, July 1944 : the Soviet General Staff study Glantz, David M. …, The battle for the Ukraine : the Red Army’s Korsun’-Shevchenkovkii Operation, 1944 : the Soviet General Staff study) Glantz, David M., “The Red Army’s Lublin-Brest Offensive and Advance on Warsaw (18 July-30 September 1944): An Overview and Documentary Survey”, in Journal of Slavic Military Studies, Volume 19, Number 2 (June 2006), pp.401-441. Glantz, D. and House, J., When Titan’s Clashed Krivosheev, G.F. (ed.), Soviet Casualties and Combat Losses in the Twentieth Century Le Tissier, T., Zhukov at the Oder: the decisive battle for Berlin Liedke, G., “Furor Tuetonicus: German Offensives and Counter-Attacks on the Eastern Front, August 1943 to March 1945”, in Journal of Slavic Military Studies 21.3 (July-September 2008) pp.563-587 Ungváry, K., The Siege of Budapest: One Hundred Days in World War II Werth, A., Russia at War 1941-1945 Week 13 The War at Sea Åselius, Gunnar, “The Naval Theatres in Soviet Grand Strategy during the Interwar Period”, in Journal of Slavic Military Studies [Great Britain] 13(1) (2000) 68-89. Åselius, Gunnar, The rise and fall of the Soviet Navy in the Baltic 1921-1941 Hill, A., Russian and Soviet Naval Power in the Arctic, 1914-1945, [special issue of the] Journal of Slavic Military Studies, Volume 20, Number 3 (July-September 2007). Articles by Hill, Luzin, Suprun. Rohwer, Jürgen and Monakov, Mikhail, “The Soviet Union’s Ocean-Going Fleet, 1935-1956”, in International History Review [Canada] 18(4) (1996) 837-868. Rohwer, Jürgen and Monakov, Mikhail S, Stalin’s Ocean-Going Fleet: Soviet Naval Strategy and Shipbuilding Programmes, 1922-1953 The War in the Far East Brement, Marshall, “Khalkin-Gol”, in MHQ – The Quarterly Journal of Military History 1993 5(3). Coox, A., Nomohan: Japan Against Russia, 1939 Haslam, J., The Soviet Union and the threat from the East, 1933-41 : Moscow, Tokyo, and the prelude to the Pacific War Glantz, David M., The Soviet Strategic Offensive in Manchuria, 1945: “August Storm” Hasegawa, T., Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman and the Surrender of Japan Week 14 What was the human price of the Great Patriotic War for the Soviet people and why was it so high? Combat losses:

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Il’enkov, S.A., “Concerning the Registration of Soviet Armed Forces’ Wartime Irrecovable Losses, 1941-1945”, in Journal of Slavic Military Studies, Vol.9 No.2 (June 1996) pp.440-442. Krivosheev, G.F. (ed.), Soviet Casualties and Combat Losses in the Twentieth Century Zetterling, N., “The Great Patriotic War Revisited: Loss Rates on the Eastern Front during World War II”, in Journal of Slavic Military Studies, Vol.9 No.4 (December 1996) pp.895-906. On arguments for the barbarization of war in the East see: Bartov, O., The Eastern Front 1941-1945: German troops and the barbarization of warfare and Hitler’s Army. Germany and the Second World War (Volume IV). Müller, R-D. and Ueberschär, G. [See below]. Edward B. Westerman, ““Ordinary men” or “ideological soldiers”: police battalion 310 in Russia, 1942”, in Martel, G. (ed.), The World War Two Reader The fate of Soviet POWs: Start with: Müller, R-D. and Ueberschär, G., Hitler’s War in the East – A Critical Assessment [See also Dallin, A. on G. occupation and partisan war reading list]. Hunger, with particular reference to Leningrad: Salisbury, H., The 900 days: The Siege of Leningrad German occupation and the partisan war: See above. The Holocaust: There is a considerable volume of literature on this. A starting point might be Cesarani, D. (ed.), The Final Solution: Origins and Implementation. The Impact of the Great Patriotic War on the Soviet Union General and Soviet political life: Bialer, S., Stalin’s Successors: Leadership, Stability and Change in the Soviet Union. Fitzpatrick, S., “Postwar Soviet Society: The “Return to Normalcy”, 1945-1953”, in Linz, S. (ed.), The Impact of World War Two on the Soviet Union McCauley, M., Stalin and Stalinism Nove, A., Stalinism and After Volkogonov, D., Stalin: Triumph and Tragedy Demography: Anderson, B., and Silver, B., “Demographic Consequences of World War II on the Non-Russian Nationalities of the USSR”, in Linz, S. (ed.). Krivosheev, G. (ed.), Soviet Casualties and Combat Losses in the Twentieth Century Economy: Filtzer, D., Soviet Workers and Late Stalinism Nove, A., An Economic History of the USSR 1917-1991

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Readiness for war: Donnely, C., Red Banner: The Soviet Military System in Peace and War Holloway, D., The Soviet Union and the Arms Race Religion: Fletcher, W., “The Soviet Bible Belt: World War II’s Effects on Religion”, in Linz, S. (ed.). Nationality: Hosking, G., “The Second World War and Soviet National Consciousness”, in Past and Present, Volume 175, No.1 (2002). Smith, G., The Nationalities Question in the Soviet Union Cultural Life: Brown, D., Soviet Russian Literature since Stalin Taylor, R., and Spring, D., Stalinism and Soviet Cinema The Party: Kaplan, C., “The Impact of World War II on the Party”, in Linz, S. (ed.). Rigby, T., Communist Party Membership in the USSR 1917-1967 Case study: Bubis, E., and Ruble, B., “The Impact of World War II on Leningrad”, in Linz, S. (ed.).

Soviet Il-2 Sturmovik attack aircraft of the Soviet Northern Fleet, 1944

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Assessment: Piece of work Date Description Contribution to

final grade Long essay proposal

Wk 4 You will have to submit a long essay proposal giving an essay question, a description of what you intend to examine in your essay (2-300 words) and a bibliography with at least 10 items, including two sources which could reasonably be deemed documentary (i.e. primary).

10%

Source question Wk 5 You will have 25 minutes, in class, to respond to a source concerned with material for seminars 2-4.

10%

Article response Wk 8 Write a critical response in up to 1200 words (excluding references) of Stolfi’s ‘Barbarossa Revisited’ article in the reading for Week 7. More details during the Week 5 seminar.

15%

Long essay Wk 12 An essay of up to 3500 words (the word limit excluding references and bibliography) on a topic of your choice concerned with Soviet preparations for war or the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 itself, agreed in advance with me (see above). See also overleaf.

35%

Quiz Wk 13 20 multiple-choice questions covering material for all seminars to date.

5%

Source questions Wk 14 You will have 45 minutes, in class, to respond to two sources concerned with material for seminars 5 and 7-13.

15%

Presentation Wks 2-14

All students will be responsible for orally presenting a summary of a reading provided the previous week to the group, and to answer questions on it.

10%

In order to pass the course you must answer all source questions, submit the article response, submit the long essay proposal and essay, and give a presentation. Where applicable, 10% of the marks will be deducted for exceeding word limits for a particular question/piece of work, and you will not gain credit for that material beyond the word limit. All assessment components must be completed to receive a final grade, and be submitted, unless by prior agreement, by the seminar of Week 14.

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‘Long’ essay questions: In order to score highly on your essay you must: *Have been answering the question. *Have an argument. *Support your argument with evidence/examples. *Where making significant use of existing arguments in the literature you must have acknowledged them. *Show evidence of critical judgement (i.e. do not simply accept all sources at face value). *Given that this is a final year course it is expected that students will make some effort to locate and use appropriate published documentary source materials for their long essays. *Use a recognised format for citing sources. Research assistance (History Liaison Librarian) Mr Clyde’s office hours for the Winter 2009 semester will be Wednesday from 1-2:30 and Thursday from 1-2:30 in room SS639. They will run from February to April. Students are welcome to go to his office hours for research help. If they cannot make those hours they can e-mail him at jvclyde@ucalgary.ca to arrange an appointment. Grading: All work will be graded as below: Grade Percentage equivalent Description A+ A A-

90-100 85-89 80-84

From ‘outstanding’ to ‘excellent’

B+ B B-

77-79 73-76 70-72

From ‘very good’ to ‘reasonable’ (average)

C+ C C-

67-69 63-66 60-62

From ‘reasonable’ (average) to ‘poor’

D+ D F

57-59 50-56 0-49

From ‘poor’ to ‘unacceptable’

Final letter grades will be calculated on the basis of the percentage mark given for each piece of work and not the corresponding letter grades.

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From the Registrar’s Office: It is the student's responsibility to request academic accommodations. If you are a student with a documented disability who may require academic accommodation and have not registered with the Disability Resource Centre, please contact their office at 220-8237. Students who have not registered with the Disability Resource Centre are not eligible for formal academic accommodation. You are also required to discuss your needs with your instructor no later than fourteen (14) days after the start of this course. PLAGIARISM Plagiarism occurs when one submits or presents one's work in a course, or ideas and/or passages in a written piece of work, as if it were one's own work done expressly for that particular course, when, in fact, it is not. As noted in the Department of History Guide to Essay Presentation, plagiarism may take several forms:

• Failure to cite sources properly may be considered plagiarism. This could include quotations, and wording used from another source but not acknowledged.

• Borrowed, purchased, and/or ghostwritten papers are considered plagiarism, as is

submitting one's own work for more than one course without the permission of the instructor(s) involved.

• Extensive paraphrasing of one or a few sources is also considered plagiarism, even

when notes are used, unless the essay is a critical analysis of those works.

• The use of notes does not justify the sustained presentation of another author's language and ideas as one's own.

Plagiarism is a serious academic offence. A plagiarized paper will automatically be failed. Plagiarism may also result in a failing grade for the entire course and other penalties as noted in The University of Calgary Calendar. Carina McDonald/Social Science Faculty Rep. Phone: 220-6551/Rm. MSC 251 SAFEWALK/Campus Security: 220-5333

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