November 10: In this class we will begin our discussion of the Women's role during the Great War.

• Good Video on how women's roles changed during the war, although not permanently.

  • For more go to Dick Kerr's Ladies - http://www.dickkerrladies.com/ - Women's Football in the Great War.

November 12: We will continue our discussion from Tuesday's class and also begin to analyze the experience of Russian Women in the Great War.  Over the course of the two classes we will deal with the question "Which change in gender roles?"

Readings for November 17

• 165-175, 200-206 in Fero

• Rouzeau and Becker, The Crisis of 1917, pp. 113-138 on Courseweb under Course Documents.

• pp 227-238 in Strachan

Recommended Viewing: The Battleship Potemkin:   You are not responsible for this, but this is one of the classics of modern cinema.  It is the tale of the mutiny on the Battleship Potemkin during the 1905 Revolution.

Watch Battleship Potemkin (1925) in Movies Online  |  View More Free Videos Online at Veoh.com

• The October Revolution

• Aftermath of the Bolshevik Revolution

Watch:

• Courseweb - Video Files - "Russian Revolution" -  October Revolution

• Courseweb - Video Files - "Russian Revolution" - Civil War

• Courseweb - video files - "Indiana Jones and Communism" and "Northern Exposure and Lenin"

  Download:

  •  March to October - PowerPoint Presentation (once it opens use the "left-click" on the mouse.)

Recommended Reading: