(Course Name) (Soviet History) (Name of Instructor) (Tai Wan-chin) (Department and Class) (Second year Class at Russian

an Department) (Compulsory or Elective) (Compulsory) (Number of Credits) (two credits) (no prior course requirement) (Content of Instructions): 1. (Impact of February Revolution) 2. (Process and Impact of October Revolution) 3. (International Intervention and Civil War) 4. (New Economic Policy) 5. (Five-year Economic Plans) 6. (Totalitarian Rule by Joseph Stalin) 7. (Rule by N. Khrushchev) 8. (Internal and External Polices of L. Brezhnev) 9. (New Thinking by M. Gorbachev) 10. (Rise of B. Yeltsin) (Method of Instruction) (Mainly English-language Lectures by the Instructor) (Teaching Facilities) (Multi-media Classroom) (Textbooks): David MacKenzie and Mechael W. Curarn, A Hisotry of Russia, the Soviet Union, and Beyond (Reference Books) (. ) ; ,; Simon Sebag Montefiore, Stalin: the Court of the Red Tsar. (Grading) (class performance)0 (mid-term examination50 (final examination)50