Course Contents

• French Revolution • Richard Ballard. A New Dictionary of the French Revolution. New York: I.B. Tours &co LTD. 2011 • Sylvia Neely. A Concise History of the French Revolution. New York: New Roman and Littlefield publishers. 2008 Gershoy, Leo. The French Revolution and Napoleon (New York, 1964) • Loomie, Stanley. Paris in the Terror June 1793-July 1794(London: Jonathan Cape, 1965) • Stewart, John Hall. A Documentary Survey of the French Revolution (New York: Macmillan, 1966) • Thomson, M.J. French Revolution (London, 1963) • Christopher Hilbert. The Days of the French Revolution (HarperCollins, 2012) • Timothy Tackett. The Coming of the Terror in the French Revolution • • Russian Revolution • Door Richard Pipes, Russian Revolution. New York: A division of Random House. 2011 • Carr, E.H. The Bolshevik Revolution 1917-1923 (London: Penguin, 1950) • Hill, Christopher. Lenin and the Russian Revolution (London: English University Press, 1965) • Krasin, Y. Lenin Revolution and the World Today (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1971) • Mcneal, Robert H. The Bolshevik Tradition (New Jersey: Englewood Cliff, 1975) • Yarmolinsky, A. Road to Revolution: Century of Russian Radicalism (London, 1957) • Chinese Revolution • Paul Pyr Byrne. The Chinese Revolution: The Triumph of Communism. White Thompson Publishing.2007. • Brugger, William. China: Radicalism to Revisionism 1962-1976 (London: Croom Helm, 1981) • Feoktistov, V.F. Maoism Unmasked (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1972) • Gittings, John. China Changes Face: The Road from Revolution 1949-1989 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989) • Solomon, R.H. Mao’s Revolution and the Chinese Political Culture (Berkeley: University of California, 1974) • Iranian Revolution • Afshar, Haleh. Iran: A Revolution in Turmoil (London: Macmillan, 1985) • Bakhsh, Shaul. The Reign of the Ayatollahs: Iran and the Islamic Revolution (London: I. B. Tauris, 1985) • Hoveyda, Fereydoun. The Fall of the Shah (New York: Wyndham Books, 1980) • Sibt-I-Hasan, Syed. Inqilab-I-Iran (Karachi: Maktaba-e-Daniyal, 1988) • Stempel, J.D. Inside the Iranian Revolution (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1981)  

Course Synopsis

This course deals with a specialized study of an epoch that changed the course of human history. It will focus on the nature, development and the effects of the events upon human society. The emphasis will not just be on the political developments but also on the socio-political, economic and cultural effects of the events. The list of the important periods of the Modern World, with some of the important books relevant to their study, has been provided below.

Course Learning Outcomes

Examination of the origins, phases, and results of selected revolutions throughout modern world history. Analyze from a comparative perspective interpretations of the causes; phases; results of the revolutions; and how issues of gender, race, and class shaped these revolutions.