HIS 242
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Unit 1    Introduction and Themes in Russian history
  • Slavs
Unit 2    Reaction and Modernization under Alexander III and Nicholas II
  • Alexander III
  • Nicholas II
  • Konstantin Pobedonostsev
  • Sergei Witte
Unit 3    A Silver Age of Russian Culture
  • Anton Chekhov
  • Maksim Gorkii
  • Silver Age
  • Moscow Art Theatre
Unit 4    Marxism
  • Dialectical materialism
  • Lenin
  • Imperialism
Unit 5    1905
  • Russo-Japanese War
  • Bloody Sunday
  • October Manifesto
  • Duma
  • Petr Stolypin
Unit 6    World War I
  • Rasputin
  • Progressive Bloc
Unit 7    1917 and Civil War
  • War Communism
  • Cheka
  • Trotsky
  • Aleksandr Kerenskii
  • Soviet
Unit 8    NEP and the 1920s
  • New Economic Policy
  • Nikolai Bukharin
  • Stalin
Unit 9    Stalinism in the 1930s
  • Stalinism
  • Five-Year Plan
  • Great Purge and Show Trials
  • Collectivization
Unit 10    World War II
  • Molotov
  • Blitzkrieg
  • Stalingrad
Unit 11    Cold war Abroad
  • Truman Doctrine
  • Marshall Plan
  • Korean War
  • 1956 Hungary
  • 1968 Prague Spring
  • 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis
  • 1980 Solidarity
Unit 12    Thaw at Home
  • Nikita Khrushchev
  • Thaw
  • Leonid Brezhnev
  • Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Unit 13    Gorbachev
  • Mikhail Gorbachev
  • Glasnost'
  • Perestroika
Unit 14    The End of the Soviet Union
  • Boris Yeltsin
  • Chechnya
Unit 15    Whither Russia in 2000?
  • Modernization
  • Dual Society

 

 

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