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Author:

Steinberg, Mark D., 1953-

Title:

A history of Russia [sound recording CD] : from Peter the Great to Gorbachev / [Mark Steinberg].

Format:

[sound recording CD] :

Publisher:

Teaching Co.,

Copyright Date:

c2003

Description:

3 v. (6 compact discs per volume) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 3 guidebooks (1 guidebook per volume).

Subject:

Russia--Compact disc.--Compact disc.
Soviet Union--Compact disc.--Compact disc.

Other Authors:

Steinberg, Mark D., 1953-
Teaching Company.

Notes:

Title from disc label. Mark Steinberg, lecturer.

Contents:

Part I. Lecture 1. Understanding the Russian past -- Lecture 2. The Russia of Peter the Great's childhood -- Lecture 3. Peter the Great's revolution -- Lecture 4. The Age of empresses, Catherine the Great -- Lecture 5. Social rebellion, the Purgachev uprising -- Lecture 6. Moral rebellion, Nikolai Novikov -- Lecture 7. Alexander I, imagining reform -- Lecture 8. The Decembrist rebellion -- Lecture 9. Nicholas I, orthodoxy, autocracy, nationality -- Lecture 10. Alexander Pushkin, Russia's national poet -- Lecture 11. The birth of the intelligentsia -- Lecture 12. Westernizers, Vissarion Belinskii -- Part. II. Lecture 13. Alexander II and the great reforms -- Lecture 14. "Nihilists" -- Lecture 15. Populists and Marxists -- Lecture 16. Paths to revolution, Lenin and Martov -- Lecture 17. Lev Tolstoy -- Lecture 18. The reign of Alexander III -- Lecture 19. Nicholas II, the last tsar -- Lecture 20. The revolution of 1905 -- Lecture 21. Peasant life and culture -- Lecture 22. The modern city and its discontents -- Lecture 23. Fin-de-siècle culture, decadence and iconoclasm -- Lecture 24. Fin-de-siècle culture, the religious renaissance -- Part. III. Lecture 25. War and revolution -- Lecture 26. Democratic Russia, 1917 -- Lecture 27. Bolsheviks in power -- Lecture 28. Civil War -- Lecture 29. Paths to socialism, the 1920s -- Lecture 30. Joseph Stalin -- Lecture 31. Stalin's revolution -- Lecture 32. Joy and terror: society and culture in the 1930s -- Lecture 33. The "Great Patriotic War" -- Lecture 34. The Soviet Union after Stalin -- Lecture 35. Private and public dissidence -- Lecture 36. Mikhail Gorbachev, Perestroika and Glasnost.

Summary:

Thirty-six 30 minute lectures by Mark Steinberg on the history of Russia.

Series:

The great courses

OCLC:

(OCoLC)52279326

Locations:

SPPE104 -- Independence Public Library (Independence)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)