{"id":19544,"date":"2023-05-11T23:16:52","date_gmt":"2023-05-11T23:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/soviet-state-power-and-its-limits-sometimes-rendered-as-was-the-stalinist-state-a-weak-or-strong-state\/"},"modified":"2023-05-11T23:16:52","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T23:16:52","slug":"soviet-state-power-and-its-limits-sometimes-rendered-as-was-the-stalinist-state-a-weak-or-strong-state","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/soviet-state-power-and-its-limits-sometimes-rendered-as-was-the-stalinist-state-a-weak-or-strong-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Soviet State Power and its Limits (Sometimes rendered as, \u201cWas the Stalinist state a weak or strong state?\u201d)"},"content":{"rendered":"

write a<\/span> <\/span>1<\/span>4<\/span>–<\/span>16<\/span> <\/span>page<\/span> <\/span>historiographic essay<\/span> <\/span>on Soviet State Power and its Limits<\/span> <\/span>(Sometimes rendered as, \u201cWas the<\/span>
Stalinist state a weak or<\/span> <\/span>strong state?\u201d)<\/span>
Readings to discuss:<\/span>
1.<\/span> <\/span>Fitzpatrick,<\/span> <\/span>Everyday Stalinism<\/span>, chapters 2 and 3<\/span>
2.<\/span> <\/span>Kotkin, \u201cSpeaking Bolshevik\u201d<\/span>
3.<\/span> <\/span>Cameron,<\/span> <\/span>The Hungry Steppe<\/span>
4.<\/span> <\/span>Osokina,<\/span> <\/span>Stalin\u2019s Quest for Gold<\/span>
<\/p>\n

5.<\/span> <\/span>Peri,<\/span> <\/span>The War Within<\/span><\/div>\n
Be<\/span> <\/span>1<\/span>4<\/span>–<\/span>16<\/span> <\/span>double<\/span>–<\/span>spaced<\/span> <\/span>pages<\/span> <\/span>in length<\/span> <\/span>(<\/span>20<\/span> <\/span>pages is the absolute limit!<\/span> <\/span>Part of the<\/span>
challenge is to know how to explain and analyze via efficient, disciplined<\/span>,<\/span>
professional<\/span> <\/span>prose<\/span>)<\/span>.<\/span>
\u2022<\/span> <\/span>double<\/span>–<\/span>spaced, with 1<\/span>–<\/span>inch margins, and<\/span> <\/span>12<\/span>–<\/span>po<\/span>i<\/span>nt font<\/span>
\u2022<\/span> <\/span>employ<\/span> <\/span>the Chicago Manual of Style citation apparatus<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

write a 14–16 page historiographic essay on Soviet State Power and its Limits (Sometimes rendered as, \u201cWas theStalinist state a weak or strong state?\u201d)Readings to discuss:1. Fitzpatrick, Everyday Stalinism, chapters 2 and 32. Kotkin, \u201cSpeaking Bolshevik\u201d3. Cameron, The Hungry Steppe4. Osokina, Stalin\u2019s Quest for Gold 5. Peri, The War Within Be 14–16 double–spaced pages in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[524],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/19544"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/19544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=19544"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=19544"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=19544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}