A history of Russia from Peter the Great to Gorbachev
Title:
A history of Russia from Peter the Great to Gorbachev
Author:
Steinberg, Mark D., 1953-
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Publication Information:
Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., [2003]
©2003
Physical Description:
18 audio discs (approximately 1080 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (22 cm.).
Summary:
Thirty-six 30 minute lectures by Mark Steinberg on the history of Russia.
General Note:
Title from disc label.
Compact discs.
Language:
English
Contents:
Understanding the Russian past ; Russia of Peter the Great's childhood ; Peter the Great's revolution ; Age of empresses - Catherine the Great ; Social rebellion - The Purgachev uprising ; Moral rebellion - Nikolai Novikov ; Alexander I - Imagining reform ; Decembrist rebellion ; Nicholas I - Orthodoxy, autocracy, nationality ; Alexander Pushkin, Russia's national poet ; Birth of the intelligentsia ;
Alexander II and the great reforms ; "Nihilists" ; Populists and Marxists ; Paths to revolution - Lenin and Martov ; Lev Tolstoy ; Reign of Alexander III ; Nicholas II, the last tsar ; Revolution of 1905 ; Peasant life and culture ; Modern city and its discontents ; Fin-de-siècle culture - Decadence and iconoclasm ; Fin-de-siècle culture - The religious renaissance --
War and revolution ; Democratic Russia - 1917 ; Bolsheviks in power ; Civil War ; Paths to socialism - the 1920s ; Joseph Stalin ; Stalin's revolution ; Joy and terror - Society and culture in joy and terror ; "Great Patriotic War" ; Soviet Union after Stalin ; Private and public dissidence ; Mikhail Gorbachev - Perestroika and Glasnost.
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ISBN:
9781565856332
Format :
Audiobook on CD
