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~:History of Russia - From Peter the Great to Gorbachev:~
by Mark Steinberg
This course focuses on 300 years of Russian history from Peter the Great to Gorbachev by examining the lives of the men and women who, in fact, were Russia. This is history told through biography.
You examine key individuals and groups, the contexts in which they thought and acted, as well as their driving ideas.
Topics include the revolution of Peter the Great, Catherine the Great, the Decembrist Uprising, Belinskii and the early years of Russian Socialism, Alexander II, Nicholas II, Stalin, Gorbachev, and Communism, among others.
Mark Steinberg has also written a number of books, his contribution to the Romanov community is his publication "Fall of the Romanovs".
Chapter One - Understanding Russia's Past
Chapter Two - The Russia of Peter the Great's Childhood
Chapter Three - Peter the Great's Revolution
Chapter Four - The Age of Empresses - Catherine the Great
Chapter Five - Social Rebellion - The Purgachev Uprising
Chapter Six - Moral Rebellion - Nikolai Novikov
Chapter Seven - Alexander I - Imagining Reform
Chapter Eight - The Decembrist Rebellion
Chapter Nine - Nicholas I - Orthodoxy, Autocracy, Nationality
Chapter Ten - Alexander Pushkin, Russia's National Poet
Chapter Eleven - The Birth of the Intelligentsia
Chapter Twelve - Westernizers - Vissarion Belinskii
Chapter Thirteen - Alexander II and the Great Reforms
Chapter Fourteen - 'Nihilists'
Chapter Fifteen - Populists and Marxists
Chapter Sixteen - Paths to Revolution - Lenin and Martov
Chapter Seventeen - Lev Tolstoy
Chapter Eighteen - The Reign of Alexander III
Chapter Nineteen - Nicholas II, The Last Tsar
Chapter Twenty - The Revolution of 1905
Chapter Twenty-One - Peasant Life and Culture
Chapter Twenty-Two - The Modern City and Its Discontents
Chapter Twenty-Three - Fin-de-Siecle Culture - Decadence and Iconoclasm
Chapter Twenty-Four - Fin-de-Siecle Culture - The Religious Renaissance
Chapter Twenty-Five - War and Revolution
Chapter Twenty-Six - Democratic Russia - 1917
Chapter Twenty-Seven - Bolsheviks in Power
Chapter Twenty-Eight - Civil War
Chapter Twenty-Nine - Paths to Socialism - the 1920s
Chapter Thirty - Joseph Stalin
Chapter Thirty-One - Stalin's Revolution
Chapter Thirty-Two - Joy and Terror - Society and Culture in the 1930s
Chapter Thirty-Three - The 'Great Patriotic War'
Chapter Thirty-Four - The Soviet Union After Stalin
Chapter Thirty-Five - Private and Public Dissidence
Chapter Thirty-Six - Mikhail Gorbachev - Perestroika and Glasnost
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