1. The Soviet Russia Lecture 3 Lyra Riabov Associate Professor Southern New Hampshire University

2. The Soviet Russia 1917-1985  The End of Romanov Dynasty  Ten Days that Shook the XX th Century  Lenin’s Experimentations with Marxist Economy  Stalin’s Socialism and Terror  German Invasion of the USSR  Khrushchev’s Attempts for the Liberalization of the Soviet Society

3. The End of Romanov Dynasty 1613 - 1917 OlgaTatiana Nicolas MarieAnastasiaAlexei Alexandra

4. “A Dreamer in the Kremlin” Herbert Wells

5. Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin The Year 1918 in Petrograd (1920)

6. “Defend Petrograd” (1918) “Comrade Lenin Sweeps the Globe Clean” (1920) “The Illiterate” (1920) “March 8, Women's Emancipation” (1920) "Mothers of the World“(1958); "Lenin's Dreams" (1961) “Army" (1982); "Army and People" (1988)

7. White Sea – Baltic Sea Canal was one of the first "great construction projects of Communism", which relied exclusively on the labor of prisoners Over 100,000 prisoners dug a 227-kilometer long canal Tens of thousands died in the process This Famous sculpture by Vera Mukhina The Worker and Kolkhoz Woman became an icon of Soviet art. It typified the gendered depiction of workers and peasants. “We stand for Peace” Stalin, Molotov and Ribbentrop. Treaty with Hitler Germany Stalin’s Socialism: Industrialization, Collectivization, Treaty with Hitler. Stalin’s Terror: purges and labor of prisoners. About 35 million people were exterminated between 1934-1940

8. Meeting (Feb. 4-11, 1945), at Yalta, Crimea, USSR, of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin. WWII Death Toll : USSR:Military: 12 million. Civilian: 17 million. Total: 29 million USA: Military: 407,000. Civilian: 6,000. Total: 413,000 Stalingrad, 1943 Moscow, June 1945

9. Khrushchev Denounces Stalin: “Secret Speech” (1956) First Sputnik is launched (1957) An attempt for liberalization Pasternak: Doctor Zhivago (1957) The shoot down of the American U-2 surveillance plane (1960) Gagarin space flight (1961) Solzhenitsin: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962) Shostakovich: Symphony No. 13, "Babi Yar" (1962) Cuban missile crisis (1962) Fail of reform in agriculture: starvation (1963) Fall of Khrushchev (1964) Khruschev admires Van Cliburn who had just won the First International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition in Moscow (1958). “Peaceful Coexistence” From Thaw to Stagnation

10. Nathan Altman: Portrait of Anna Akhmatova (1914)

11. Lenin 1917-1924 Stalin 1924-1953 Khrushchev 1953-1964 Brezhnev 1964-1982 Andropov 1983-1984 Chernenko 1984-1985 Gorbachev 1985-1991Yeltsin 1991-1999 Putin 2000-present 19171991 1991-2003