HIS 241
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Unit 1    Introduction and Themes in Russian history
  • Slavs
Unit 2    Origins of Rus'
  • Vladimir
  • Russkaia pravda (Russian Justice)
  • Norman Theory (Varangians)
Unit 3    Rise of Moscow and the Gathering of the Lands
  • Mongols (Tatars)
  • Moscow as Third Rome
  • Andrei (Andrew) Rublev
  • Lord Novgorod the Great
Unit 4    Ivan IV and the Time of Troubles
  • Ivan IV the Terrible
  • Time of Troubles (Smutnoe vremia)
  • Oprichnina
  • Romanov family
Unit 5    The Petrine Revolution
  • Peter the Great
  • Great Northern War
  • Aleksandr Menshikov
Unit 6    Catherine the Great
  • Catherine the Great
  • Grigorii Potemkin
  • Emelian Pugachev
  • Partitions of Poland
  • Aleksandr Radishchev
Unit 7    Alexander I and Napoleon
  • Alexander I
  • Mikhail (Michael) Speranskii
  • Congress of Vienna
  • 1812 campaign
Unit 8    Decembrists
  • Decembrists
  • Pavel Pestel
Unit 9    Nicholas I and Official Nationality
  • Nicholas I
  • Crimean War
  • Third Department of His Majesty's Own Chancery
Unit 10    A Marvelous Decade
  • Aleksandr Pushkin
  • Nikolai Gogol
  • Slavophiles
  • Westernizers
  • Alexander Herzen
Unit 11    Alexander II and the Great Reforms
  • Alexander II
  • Great Reforms
  • Emancipation Proclamation
Unit 12    The Revolutionary Movement
  • Nihilism
  • Populism (narodnichestvo)
  • Sergei Nechaev
  • People' Will
  • Go to the People Movement
Unit 13    A Golden Age of Russian Culture
  • Ivan Turgenev
  • Lev Tolstoy
  • Fedor Dostoevsky
  • Peredevizhniki (Itinerants)
  • Mighty Five
Unit 14    Reaction and Modernization under Alexander III and Nicholas II
  • Alexander III
  • Nicholas II
  • Konstantin Pobedonostsev
  • Sergei Witte
Unit 15    Whither Russia in 1900?
  • Modernization
  • Dual society (Russia's enlightened elite versus the unenlightened 95% peasant population)

 

 

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