Hear about 300 years of Russian history from a renowned author and world-class historian who was a student in the Soviet Union.
History of Russia: From Peter the Great to Gorbachev
Overview
Syllabus
- By This Professor
- 01: Understanding the Russian Past
- 02: The Russia of Peter the Great's Childhood
- 03: Peter the Great's Revolution
- 04: The Age of Empresses-Catherine the Great
- 05: Social Rebellion-The Purgachev Uprising
- 06: Moral Rebellion-Nikolai Novikov
- 07: Alexander I-Imagining Reform
- 08: The Decembrist Rebellion
- 09: Nicholas I-Orthodoxy, Autocracy, Nationality
- 10: Alexander Pushkin, Russia's National Poet
- 11: The Birth of the Intelligentsia
- 12: Westernizers-Vissarion Belinskii
- 13: Alexander II and the Great Reforms
- 14: Nihilists
- 15: Populists and Marxists
- 16: Paths to Revolution-Lenin and Martov
- 17: Lev Tolstoy
- 18: The Reign of Alexander III
- 19: Nicholas II, The Last Tsar
- 20: The Revolution of 1905
- 21: Peasant Life and Culture
- 22: The Modern City and Its Discontents
- 23: Fin-de-Siecle Culture-Decadence and Iconoclasm
- 24: Fin-de-Siecle Culture-The Religious Renaissance
- 25: War and Revolution
- 26: Democratic Russia-1917
- 27: Bolsheviks in Power
- 28: Civil War
- 29: Paths to Socialism-the 1920s
- 30: Joseph Stalin
- 31: Stalin's Revolution
- 32: Joy and Terror-Society and Culture in the 1930s
- 33: The "Great Patriotic War"
- 34: The Soviet Union After Stalin
- 35: Private and Public Dissidence
- 36: Mikhail Gorbachev-Perestroika and Glasnost
Taught by
Mark Steinberg
