HIST 240
Muscovy and the Russian Empire
Last Offered Fall 2015
Division II Writing Skills
This course is not offered in the current catalog

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Between the fourteenth and the seventeenth centuries the princes and political elite of Muscovy created an extensive multi-ethnic and multi-religious empire in Eastern Europe and Asia. Over the next 150 years their imperial heirs transformed and extended this empire, to the point that on the eve of the Crimean War (1853-1855) many believed it to be the most powerful state in Europe. But defeat in the war exposed the weakness of the imperial regime and helped to provoke a process of state-led reform that failed to avert, and may well have contributed to, the collapse of the regime in the February Revolution of 1917. Using a combination of primary and secondary sources, this course will explore the character of the Muscovite and the Russian empires and the forces, processes, and personalities that shaped their formation, expansion, and, in the latter case, collapse.
The Class: Format: lecture/discussion
Limit: 19
Expected: 15
Class#: 1562
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: class discussion, 5 short essays (5-6 pages), 2 group oral presentations, and a map quiz
Prerequisites: none; open to all
Distributions: Division II Writing Skills
Attributes: GBST Russian + Eurasian Studies
HIST Group C Electives - Europe and Russia
HIST Group P Electives - Premodern

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