21H.466 Imperial and Revolutionary Russia: Culture and Politics, Fall 2008
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Wood, Elizabeth A.
Alternative Title
Imperial and Revolutionary Russia: Culture and Politics
Date Issued
December 2008
Abstract
At the beginning of the eighteenth century Russia began to come into its own as a major European power. Members of the Russian intellectual classes increasingly compared themselves and their autocratic order to states and societies in the West. This comparison generated both a new sense of national consciousness and intense criticism of the existing order in Russia. In this course we will examine different perspectives on Russian history and literature in order to try to understand the Russian Empire as it changed from the medieval period to the modern.
Subjects
Muscovy
Empire
Peter the Great
Catherine II
nobility
bourgeoisie
Constitution
bureaucracy
Nicholas I
Decembrists
serfdom
Alexander II
Great reforms
intelligentsia
Caucasus
Russo-Japanese War
Lenin
World War I
Nicholas II
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. History Section
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