The Great War
History 1040
Women and Gender Roles in the Great War.
Week #11
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 - 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:
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
For 18 November
Download:
Go to Courseweb and download the PowerPoint "The Russian Revolution." Bring to class.
Fitzpatrick, S. 1917: The revolutions of February and October. Oxford University Press, 2001. 40-67.
Strachan - pp 227-238
Watch John Merriman's analysis of the Russian Revolution - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGFilsLo6OI&feature=BFa&list=PL3A8E6CE294860A24&index=19
Online Readings:
Watch - Go to Courseweb - Video Files- Russian Revolution and watch the various clips I have put up.
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)
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Recommended Reading:
March to October - PowerPoint Presentation (once it opens use the "left-click" on the mouse.)Russian Revolution - February to October
Kornilov Affair - Marxist Perspective
Kornilov Affair- Very short