The required materials for this course are:
Text: A History of Russia, 9th ed.By: Nicholas Riasanovsky and Mark Steinberg
Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2019
ISBN: ISBN 9780190645588
Earlier editions of this textbook cover much of the same material but lack coverage of Russian events over the last twenty years. If you wish, you can read my Explanation of why I chose this text..
There are two short paperbacks required:
Text: Fathers and Sons
By: Ivan Turgenev
ISBN:&nspb 9780451529695
Text: The Cossacks and Other StoriesBy: Leo Tolstoy
ISBN: 978-0-14-044959-4