8 November:

 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.

11 November: 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?"

READING ASSIGNMENTS FOR NEXT WEEK:

16 November

Download:

• Go to Courseweb - Powerpoints - "The Crisis of 1917"

Watch:

• John Merriman's discussion of France in 1917.  In particular focus on the section where he talks about the French Mutiny.

Read:

• 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

18 November

Download:

• Go to Courseweb - Power Points - Ideology - "Great War - Fascism/Nazism/Communism" - Download and bring to class.

• Courseweb - Power Points - Germany and the Great War.  There are two files there. Download and print The German Revolution2 and bring to class.

Read:

• The German Revolution of 1918

• F. L. Carsten, War Against War: British and German Radical Movements in the First World War (Berkeley and Los Angeles: California UP, 1982), pp. 208-32 (on e-reserves).

• Martin Geyer, "Munich in Turmoil: Social Protest and the Revolutionary Movement 1918-19," in Chris Wrigley (ed.), Challenges of Labour: Central and Western Europe 1917-1920 (London and New York: Routledge, 1993), pp. 51-71 (on e-reserves).

• Download "The German Revolution from Courseweb.

Recommended Viewing:  The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.  This is a Weimar era film and is meant to depict the fact that Germany, as a result of the war, had become a "madhouse."  Read more about the film here:  http://www.plume-noire.com/movies/cult/caligari.html