It’s difficult to imagine a nation whose history is more compelling for Americans than that of Russia.
Before the collapse of the Soviet Union, this was the nation against which we measured our own nations values and power and with whom war, if it ever came, could spell unimaginable catastrophe for our planet.
Yet many Americans have never had the opportunity to study Russia in any kind of depth and to see how the forces of history came together so ironically to shape a future so very different from the dreams of most ordinary Russian people, eager to see their nation embrace Western values of progress, human rights, and justice.
Poets, Politicians, Workers, Thinkers: History through Biography
In this course with Professor Mark Steinberg you examine the last 300 years of Russian history through the eyes of its people.
You find historical themes made clear not by discussing treaties or war declarations or economic statistics but by examining the lives and ideas of the men and women who, in fact, were Russia.
Professor Steinberg is one of this country’s leading specialists on Russia and its culture. He is Director of the Russian and East European Center, designated as a national resource center by the Department of Education. He is a recent winner of an Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award from the University of Illinois. In these 36 lectures he brings alive the themes and ideas that have shaped Russia’s passionate and often tormented story and equips you to better interpret contemporary events.
solved into the mists of myth and legend. How did this happen, and how should we remember this formidable civilization that, for being so formative, proved so transient?
Course Guidebook and 6 DVDs
Original price was: $300.00.$50.00Current price is: $50.00.
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