Get a comprehensive look at Russia’s fascinating cultural history with an award-winning historian and Russian specialist.
Overview
Syllabus
- By This Professor
- 01: A Russian Past, the Putin Future
- 02: Ivan the Terrible’s 500-Year Reign
- 03: The Russian Orthodox Church
- 04: Peter the Great and a European Empire
- 05: Russia’s Northern Window on Europe
- 06: Nobility, the Tsar, and the Peasant
- 07: The Authentic Russia: Popular Culture
- 08: Catherine the Great and the Enlightenment
- 09: Alexander Pushkin’s Russia
- 10: Alexander II, Nihilists, and Assassins
- 11: The Age of Realism in Russian Art
- 12: Russian Fin de Siècle and the Silver Age
- 13: Empire across Two Continents
- 14: The Rise and Fall of the Romanovs
- 15: Russian Radicals, War, and Revolution
- 16: The October 1917 Revolution
- 17: Lenin and the Soviet Cultural Invasion
- 18: The Roaring Twenties, Soviet Style
- 19: The Tyrant Is a Movie Buff: Stalinism
- 20: The Soviets’ Great Patriotic War
- 21: With Khrushchev, the Cultural Thaw
- 22: Soviet Byt: Shared Kitchen, Stove, and Bath
- 23: Intelligentsia, Dissidents, and Samizdat
- 24: Soviet Chaos and Russian Revenge
Taught by
Lynne Ann Hartnett
