Calendar

SES # TOPICS KEY DATES
1 Introduction to the Course
2 Introduction to the Russian Empire
3 The Muscovite Heritage
4 Peter the Great and the Petrine Reforms
5 The Age of Catherine II
6 The Eighteenth-century Nobility
7 Bureaucratic Monarchy
8 The Decembrists First Paper Due
9 The Institution of Serfdom
10 Nobility in Literature
11 Serfdom in Literature
12 Alexander II and the Great Reforms
13 The Radicalization of the Intelligentsia
14 Village Life after the Great Reforms
15 Reaction and Counter-revolution
16 Empire-Building
17 War and Peace in the Caucasus
18 Late Imperial Russia
19 Workers' Lives
20 The Revolutions of 1905
21 The Constitutional Monarchy Second Paper Due
22 World War I
23 The End of an Era
24 The Revolutions of 1917
25 Memoirs
26 Review