Unit
1 Introduction and Themes in Russian history
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
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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