Unit
1 Introduction and Themes in Russian history
- What are the main
geographical features of Russia?
Unit 2 Reaction and
Modernization under Alexander III
and Nicholas II
- What were some of the
characteristic features of Russia's industrialization of the 1890s?
- How did Russian
industrialization affect Russia's social structure and economic base?
Unit 3 A Silver Age of
Russian Culture
- What were some of the
characteristics of the Russian Silver Age?
- How did the Silver Age
differ from the earlier Golden Age?
Unit 4 Marxism
- What did Lenin add to
Marxism to make it fit the Russian situation?
- Why did Marxism appeal to
Russian intellectuals?
Unit 5 1905
- Was the 1905 Revolution a
revolution?
- Was Stolypin's policy a
workable solution to Russia's peasant problem?
Unit 6 World War I
- Was the tsarist
government capable of leading a more effective war effort?
- Why was the Russian
military effort, especially in the first month of the war, such a
disaster?
Unit 7 1917 and Civil War
- Why were the Bolsheviks
able to win the Civil War?
- Why did the Provisional
Government fail in 1917?
Unit 8 NEP and the 1920s
- Why was Stalin able to
consolidate political power in Russia in the 1920s?
- Why did Lenin advocate
the introduction of the New Economic Policy?
Unit 9 Stalinism in the
1930s
- Why did Stalin initiate
the five-year plans and collectivization of agriculture?
- Did Stalin's foreign
policy enable Hitler to launch World War II?
Unit 10 World War II
- Was Stalin prepared for
Hitler's attack in 1941?
- Why was Russia able to
eventually beat back the German attack and reach Berlin in May 1945?
Unit
11 Cold War Abroad
- How did the Cold War
begin?
- Did Russia win the duel
with the United States over Cuba in 1962?
Unit 12 Thaw at Home
- What were some of the
features of the “Thaw” that began in Russia after Stalin's death?
- How much intellectual and
artistic freedom existed in Russia by the 1960s?
Unit 13 Gorbachev
- Why did Gorbachev embark
on a reform program in 1985?
- What factors led to the
end of the Cold War?
Unit 14 The End of the
Soviet Union
- What have been some of
the causes of the wars between Russia and Chechnya?
- What factors led to the
breakup of the Soviet Union and the end of communist party rule?
Unit 15 Whither Russia in
2000?
- Could Russia be
considered an advanced, modernized country by 2000?
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