Great courses (Compact disc)

Title from container

"Course no. 8380."

In three containers (19 cm)

36 lectures (30 min. each)

Compact discs

Unabridged

Lecturer: Professor Mark Steinberg, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Disc 1.

Understanding the Russian past -- Russia of Peter the Great's childhood --

Disc 2.

Peter the Great's revolution -- Age of empresses : Catherine the Great --

Disc 3.

Social rebellion : The Purgachev uprising -- Moral rebellion : Nikolai Novikov --

Disc 4.

Alexander I : imagining reform -- Decembrist rebellion --

Disc 5.

Nicholas I : Orthodoxy, autocracy, nationality -- Alexander Pushkin, Russia's national poet --

Disc 6.

Birth of the intelligentsia -- Westernizers : Vissarion Belinskii --

Disc 7.

Alexander II and the great reforms -- "Nihilists" --

Disc 8.

Populists and Marxists -- Paths to revolution : Lenin and Martov --

Disc 9.

Lev Tolstoy -- Reign of Alexander III --

Disc 10.

Nicholas II, the last tsar -- Revolution of 1905 --

Disc 11.

Peasant life and culture -- Modern city and its discontents --

Disc 12.

Fin-de-siècle culture : decadence and iconoclasm -- Fin-de-siècle culture : the religious renaissance --

Disc 13.

War and revolution -- Democratic Russia : 1917 --

Disc 14.

Bolsheviks in power -- Civil War --

Disc 15.

Paths to socialism : the 1920s -- Joseph Stalin --

Disc 16.

Stalin's revolution -- Joy and terror : society and culture in the 1930s --

Disc 17.

The "Great Patriotic War" -- Soviet Union after Stalin --

Disc 18.

Private and public dissidence -- Mikhail Gorbachev : Perestroika and Glasnost