Understanding Russia (DVD) : a cultural history / Professor Lynne Ann Hartnett, Villanova University ; senior producer, Jennifer Grey ; producer/editor, Ben Bacharach-White ; director, Jonathan D. Leven, Jim M. Allen.
Edition:
Widescreen.
Publisher:
The Great Courses,
Copyright Date:
2018
Description:
4 videodiscs : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (241 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)
Soviet chaos and Russian revenge. Ivan the Terrible's 500-year reign ; The Russian Orthodox Church ; Peter the Great and a European empire ; Russia's northern window on Europe ; Nobility, the Tsar, and the peasant. Disc 2. The authentic Russia: popular culture ; Catherine the Great and the enlightenment ; Alexander Pushkin's Russia ; Alexander II, nihilists, and assassins ; The age of realism in Russian art ; Russian fin de siècle and the Silver Age. Disc 3. Empire across two continents ; The rise and fall of the Romanovs ; Russian radicals, war, and revolution ; The October 1917 revolution ; Lenin and the Soviet cultural invasion ; The roaring twenties, Soviet style. Disc 4. The tyrant is a movie buff: Stalinism ; The 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.
Summary:
From Dostoevsky and Mussorgsky to Eisenstein and Akhmatova, the film surveys hundreds of years of Russian culture.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.