Great courses (DVD). Civilization & culture.

Course no. 8374

From Dostoevsky and Mussorgsky to Eisenstein and Akhmatova, the film surveys hundreds of years of Russian culture

Lectures

Program content: ©2018

Senior producer, Jennifer Grey ; producer/editor, Ben Bacharach-White ; directors, Jonathan D. Leven, Jim M. Allen

Lecturer, Lynne Anne Hartnett

DVD; NTSC; widescreen presentation

Closed-captioned

Disc 1. A Russian past, the Putin future ; Ivan the Terrible's 500-year reign ; Russian Orthodox Church ; Peter the Great and a European empire ; Russia's northern window on Europe ; Nobility, the Tsar, and the peasant. Disc 2. Authentic Russia: popular culture ; Catherine the Great and the enlightenment ; Alexander Pushkin's Russia ; Alexander II, nihilists, and assassins ; Age of realism in Russian art ; Russian fin de siècle and the Silver Age. Disc 3. Empire across two continents ; Rise and fall of the Romanovs ; Russian radicals, war, and revolution ; October 1917 revolution ; Lenin and the Soviet cultural invasion ; Roaring twenties, Soviet style. Disc 4. Tyrant is a movie buff: Stalinism ; Soviet's great patriotic war ; With Khrushchev, the cultural thaw ; Soviet Byt: shared kitchen, stove, and bath ; Intelligentsia, dissidents and Samizdat ; Soviet chaos and Russian revenge