Monday, October 31, 2016

Context sections outline

Historical:
Topics List:
-          Rise of the Sovet Union and Stalin
-          Khrushchev’s policies
-          Brezhnev’s policies
-          Beginning of nonconformist movements

Purpose-directed outline:
-          Review the formation of the Soviet Union
-          Provide a brief timeline of Soviet Union dictators and which ones are important during the ‘50s to the ‘70s.
-          Discuss the social policies of Nikita Khrushchev
o   Pay special attention to the ones that most impacted Soviet culture and the nonconformist movement
o   How they differed from past policies
-          Discuss the social policies of Leonid Brezhnev
o   Pay special attention to the policies that impacted the nonconformist movement
o   How they differed from Khrushchev
o   How it ties into the fall of the Soviet Union
-          Unless it is convenient in the previous 2 paragraphs, discuss the beginning of the nonconformist movement
o   Which aspects of policy and sociopolitical constructions allowed it to begin.

Rhetorical:
Topics List:
-          Policy’s effect on acceptable speech
-          The relationship between the government and dissidents as a result of policies and rhetoric

Purpose-directed outline:
-          Investigate the effect of the historical context of social policy on rhetoric
o   Look at how the corpus of acceptable language evolved over the course of the ‘50s to the ‘70s
o   How it affected the rhetoric and language or different ways used to express dissent
-          Define the concept of “official” rhetoric in the context of Soviet propaganda and approved literature.
o   Its purpose
o   The effect of this on acceptable ways of speaking and interacting and what it values
-          Look at the relationship between government and dissidents

o   The impact of policy on this relationship, and subsequent impact on acceptable rhetoric

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