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HIST 4267

Life and Death under Stalin · 1 instructor on record · 2 sections

What the course score is made of

93BC evaluations2 records · weight ×1.0 · Fall 2023 – Fall 2025

—Student reviewsno reviews — does not contribute

—RateMyProfessorsno ratings — does not contribute

That is the class itself, averaged across everyone who taught it. Who taught it, and how each of them scored, is the board below — that is what a student picking a section is actually choosing between.

What the challenge rank is made of

87thMore challenging than 87% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

97BC — “Intellectually Challenging”2 records · raw score out of 100

Boston College's own “intellectually challenging” question for this class only — students answer it positively about courses that stretched them, so it measures intellectual challenge and NOT grading, workload or quality. Almost every BC class scores high on it, which is why it is shown as a rank rather than a score.

What the workload rank is made of

78thMore work than 78% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

60BC — “Workload”2 records · raw score out of 100

Boston College reports workload for this class only as one of five bands, not as a number of hours, and it does not publish what the bands mean — so this site will not translate it into hours. Higher means more work, which is not the same as worse.

Stalin's rule (1924-1953) marked the most transformational, dramatic, and violent period in Soviet History. The dramatic shifts in Soviet society led both to the long duration of the regime and to its ultimate collapse. The legacies of Stalin and "Stalinism" are still felt today in Russia and the other states of the former Soviet Union. This course is not so much about Stalin the man, as about the society that he helped create and the people who lived and died because of it. Readings focus on ideology, violence, terror, empire, domesticity, resistance, true belief, and the Second World War.

The only instructor on record

2 sections · nobody else has taught itFull record

Instructor	Overall	Workload	Challenge	RMP overall
Nicole EatonAssociate Professor · History Provisional	952 records	78th	87th	1002 ratings · all classes

There is no ranking to read here: Nicole Eaton is the only instructor with evaluation records for HIST 4267, so the number is a record, not a position. It rests on 2 records, which is thin — read it as provisional. The RateMyProfessors figure is their overall score across everything they teach, not their score in this class.

Also taught by Nicole Eaton

6 other classes

Class	Instructors	Course score
HIST 1727War and Peace: History and Literary Truths	14 records	78
HIST 7202Graduate Colloquium: Modern European History	34 records	85
HIST 4268Brave New Worlds: Communist Utopias and Dystopias	12 records	96
HIST 5281Sr. Colloquium: Fascism and Communism	12 records	91
HIST 2297Russia under the Tsars	11 record	83
HIST 2298The Soviet Experiment	11 record	89

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All of them

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HIST 1001Europe in the World 1	2077 records	72
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HIST 1113The African Diaspora and the World I	1239 records	76
HIST 1012Atlantic Worlds II: Race, Religion, and the Struggle for Democracy	1134 records	75
HIST 1093Modern History I	930 records	79
HIST 1094Modern History II	824 records	81

The line

All 13 items · means across 2 records

The Professor4 items

Clearly Explains MaterialThe instructor was effective at creating an understanding of difficult subject matter.

9882nd pctl

Available Outside of ClassThe instructor was available for help outside of class.

9883rd pctl

Brings Out Your Best WorkThe instructor motivated me to do my best work.

9882nd pctl

Sparked My InterestThe course stimulated my interest in the subject matter.

9984th pctl

The Course3 items

Well-Organized CourseThe course was well organized.

9992nd pctl

Clear Learning GoalsThe learning objectives for the course were clear.

9889th pctl

Useful Beyond the CourseWhat I learned is applicable beyond this course.

9779th pctl

Assignments & Feedback3 items

Assignments Help You LearnAssignments and exams contributed to my learning.

9992nd pctl

Gives Feedback PromptlyI received feedback on my work in a timely manner.

9886th pctl

Meaningful FeedbackThe feedback I received on my work was meaningful.

9361st pctl

Workload, difficulty & attendanceNot ratings

WorkloadHow much work the course took outside class, on Boston College's five-band scale — the band boundaries are not published, so this is not a number of hours.

6078th pctl

Intellectually ChallengingThe course was intellectually challenging.

9787th pctl

Attendance MattersAttending class was necessary to do well in this course.

9780th pctl

Bar length is the rank against every comparable record we hold, not the raw score: BC's questions all have a median around 4.5, so a raw-scale bar would be nearly full on every row and would tell you nothing. Every bar is one ink colour — nothing here is graded green or red. The hatched bars are not ratings at all: a higher number on either describes a different course, not a better one.

Game log

2 sections · newest first

Instructor	Term	Sec	Instr	Course	Work
Nicole Eaton	Fall 2025	01	96	97	60
Nicole Eaton	Fall 2023	01	95	88	—

How to read this boardInstructors are ranked on their record in this class only, never on their average across everything they teach. Scores are out of 100 — Boston College's 1–5 agreement scale, ×20, the way these numbers were printed for years. Workload is BC's own five-band figure, not a number of hours, and is shown as a rank. A dash means the question was not reported, and is never a zero.