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2017-2018 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog 
    
2017-2018 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

HIST 333 - Topics in Russian History

(3 credits)
In this course, students will learn about major events, figures, and developments in Russian history, beginning with the earliest origins of the nation and ending with the Russian Revolution in 1917. This course will focus upon the themes of the emergence of a Russian “nation,” the establishment of autocratic rule, attempts at Westernization, and the crisis of tsarist rule in the nineteenth century. Students will examine the major social, political, and religious conflicts that define Russian history before the Soviet period.   Students will also learn about a culture that emerged to reflect the interests and experiences of the diverse peoples within the Russia’s borders as these changed and expanded throughout the country’s pre-Soviet history. Spring, even-numbered years.