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2018-2019 Undergraduate Bulletin 
    
2018-2019 Undergraduate Bulletin [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

HIS 3155 - Russia: 16th to 20th Century (3)


When Offered: Spring
This course will examine the basic values and principles of traditional Russian civilization, which were inherited, accommodated, and then changed during the Soviet period (1917-1991) and which are springing up again in the time of complicated transition to democracy. The focus will also be made on the reforms of Peter I and Alexander II to the rise and fall of the Soviet Empire and to the last painful attempts to build democratic state and society. This broad survey will consider themes related to Russians and non-Russians alike, cultural interactions between them in the process of Russian exploration and expansion; migration and settlement patterns; ranching, mining, and other extractive industries; families; labor; water; urbanization; and myth-building.