2020-2021 Academic Catalog 
    
    Apr 19, 2024  
2020-2021 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

HIST 1570 - Twentieth Century Russia: 1861 to Present


This interdisciplinary survey course focuses on the major political, intellectual, ideological, social and cultural forces that shaped Soviet Russia during the pre- and post-revolutionary movement and the politics of the autocracy to the Brezhnev regime in the 1970s. Themes include the Russian autocracy, the ideology of Marxism-Leninism, the origins of the Cold War, the rise of Khrushchev, Brezhnev and Gorbachev, de-Stalinization and Soviet foreign policy. Students also examine a series of more contemporary topics of the Commonwealth in transition.

Course Designation/Attribute: HP (summer only)

Anticipated Terms Offered: varies