HIST 260

Fall 2020 All Classes

All Classes

Credit: 3 hours.

Main themes and problems of Russian history from earliest times to the present.

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria in Fall 2022 for:

Cultural Studies - Western
Humanities – Hist & Phil
HIST 260 class schedule data for fall 2020
CRN Type Section Time Day Location Instructor Section Details
43296
Online
A
11:00AM -11:50AM
MWF
n.a.
Steinberg, M
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
08/24/20-12/09/20
Degree Notes:
Humanities - Hist & Phil, and Cultural Studies - Western course.
Section Info:
Description: The history of “Russia” (Rus, Muscovy, Imperial Russia, the Soviet Union, the Russian Federation) from medieval times to the present. Although an introductory “survey course,” my aim is that we look beneath the surface of events to explore how individuals and groups experienced, interpreted, and made their own history. Most readings are primary texts, created at the time, so that we can listen to the past in its own voices as we try to understand, explain, and interpret. Three large (and related) interpretive questions are at the center of our exploration—experience (especially the experiences of everyday life); imagination (ways of thinking, feeling, seeing, and dreaming as expressed in ideas, ideologies, religion, and art); and power (rulers and their ideals as well as dissent and rebellion).
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