A history of Russia : from Peter the Great to Gorbachev /
From Peter the Great to Gorbachev
Mark Steinberg.
- Chantilly, Va. : Teaching Co., 2003.
- 3 volumes ; 21 cm.
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Course no. 8380. "Lecture transcript and course guidebook"--Cover.
Part I. lecture 1. Understanding the Russian past -- lecture 2. The Russia of Peter the Great's childhood -- lecture 3. Peter the Great's revolution -- lecture 4. The Age of empresses: Catherine the Great -- lecture 5. Social rebellion: the Purgachev uprising -- lecture 6. Moral rebellion: Nikolai Novikov -- lecture 7. Alexander I: imagining reform -- lecture 8. The Decembrist rebellion -- lecture 9. Nicholas I: orthodoxy, autocracy, nationality -- lecture 10. Alexander Pushkin, Russia's national poet -- lecture 11. The birth of the intelligentsia -- lecture 12. Westernizers: Vissarion Belinskii. Part. II. lecture 13. Alexander II and the great reforms -- lecture 14. "Nihilists" -- lecture 15. Populists and Marxists -- lecture 16. Paths to revolution: Lenin and Martov -- lecture 17. Lev Tolstoy -- lecture 18. The reign of Alexander III -- lecture 19. Nicholas II: the last tsar -- lecture 20. The revolution of 1905 -- lecture 21. Peasant life and culture -- lecture 22. The modern city and its discontents -- lecture 23. Fin-de-siècle culture: decadence and iconoclasm -- lecture 24. Fin-de-siècle culture: the religious renaissance. Part. III. lecture 25. War and revolution -- lecture 26. Democratic Russia, 1917 -- lecture 27. Bolsheviks in power -- lecture 28. Civil War -- lecture 29. Paths to socialism, the 1920s -- lecture 30. Joseph Stalin -- lecture 31. Stalin's revolution -- lecture 32. Joy and terror: society and culture in joy and terror -- lecture 33. The "Great Patriotic War" -- lecture 34. The Soviet Union after Stalin -- lecture 35. Private and public dissidence -- lecture 36. Mikhail Gorbachev: Perestroika and Glasnost.