Foothill College - Winter 2007 - online

Online Lectures by Assoc. Prof. Davison

  1. Week 1 - January 9, 2007
    1. Terminology, Spellings, and Other Tricks to Studying Russian History
    2. Geography
    3. Kievan Rus
    4. Kievan Institutions and Society
    5. The Decline of Kiev
  2. Week 2 - January 16, 2007
    1. The Mongols
    2. The Rise of Muscovy
    3. The Russian Orthodox Church
    4. Ivan IV
  3. Week 3 - January 23, 2007
    1. The Time of Troubles
    2. Mikhail and Aleksei Romanov
    3. Peter the Great
  4. Week 4 - January 30, 2007
    1. Between Peter I and Catherine II
    2. Catherine the Great
  5. Week 5 - February 6, 2007
    1. The Reign of Paul I
    2. Alexander I and Nicholas I
    3. The Slavophiles
    4. Alexander II and the Great Reforms
  6. Week 6 - February 13, 2007
    1. The Beginnings of the Revolutionary Movement
    2. Alexander III and Nicholas II
  7. Week 7 - February 22, 2007
    1. The Revolution of 1905
    2. Russia Before World War I
    3. World War I and the February Revolution
  8. Week 8 - February 26, 2007
    1. The October Revolution
  9. Week 9 - March 5, 2006
    1. March 5, 2007 - The Civil War
    2. March 6, 2007 - Stalin in Power
  10. Week 10 - March 12, 2006
    1. The Soviet Union in World War II
  11. Week 11 - March 19, 2007
    1. The Soviet Union and the Cold War
    2. Brezhnev and His Successors
    3. The Russian Federation