HIST 4160 - Russia to 1917

Credit Hours: (3)

Description: Detailed study of Russia from earliest times to 1917. Major themes include the multiethnic nature of Russia as a Eurasian country, the rise of serfdom and autocracy, expansion into Eastern Europe, Siberia and Central Asia, Russian Orthodoxy, 19th-century modernization challenges, the evolution of a revolutionary movement, and the collapse of the Romanov dynasty in 1917.