HIST 335 - Russia in the 20th Century

3 Credit(s)

A survey of Russia from the reign of the last tsar, Nicholas II, to the present. Special attention is given to the political revolutions of 1905, 1917, and 1990–91 in the context of the economic and social modernization of a multinational state. Topics to be considered include the transformation of the peasantry, the expansion of industrialization, and the emergence of a civil society.