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Class number:
2891
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Title: The Rise of Modern Russia |
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Department: History |
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Career: Undergraduate |
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Component: Lecture |
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Session: Regular |
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Instructor's Permission Required: No |
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Grading Basis: Regular |
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Units: 1.00 |
| Enrollment limited to 35 |
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Current enrollment: 33 |
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Available seats: 2 |
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Start date: Monday, January 22, 2024 |
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End date: Friday, May 10, 2024 |
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Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Schedule: TR: 1:30PM-2:45PM, HIL - DININGROOM |
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Instructor(s): Kassow, Samuel |
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Prerequisite(s): None |
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Distribution Requirement: Meets Humanities Requirement |
Course Description:
This course will examine the history of Russia from 1825 until the present. It will include the dilemmas of modernization and social stability in Tsarist Russia, the challenges of Empire and multinational populations, the impact of the intelligentsia and the causes of the revolutions of 1905 and 1917. We will then consider topics in the rise and fall of the USSR: Lenin, Stalin, World War II, the problems of de-Stalinization and the reasons that attempts to reform the Soviet system failed. The course will also make extensive use of literary materials. |