Reds!: Propaganda and Politics of the Russian Revolution

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Taught by Nick Reynolds

Nick is a PhD candidate studying political theory at CUNY, with a BA and an MA in European history and Holocaust & Genocide Studies (he’s lots of fun at parties). An incorrigible nerd and bookworm, he’s interested in just about everything.

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Between 1917 and 1937, Russia was torn apart by a cataclysmic revolution and rebuilt by a dictatorship that believed it was constructing a paradise on earth.

Reds! will explore Russia’s upheaval through the propaganda that shaped life in the Soviet Union and examine the art and ideology of the world’s first socialist state. Ranging from the barricades of Petrograd to the Moscow Show Trials, from the nightmare of Collectivization to the utopian promise of the the Five Year Plan, we will look at how the Soviet state justified itself through propaganda while making an unprecedented attempt to bend History to its own will.

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