2012-2014 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
    Mar 28, 2024  
2012-2014 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

HIST 3363 - Modern Russia and the Soviet Union


This course analyzes the major political, economic, social, and cultural transformations that took place in the last half-century of tsarist rule in Russia and in the Soviet Union. Emphasis is placed on the crisis of autocratic rule in the late empire; the emergence of the Soviet Union in the cauldron of World War I; the influence of a diverse, multi-ethnic population on both the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union; the nature of the radical and oftern violent experiment that was Soviet rule; the role of the Soviet Union in World War II and in the Cold War, and the ultimately revolutionary policies of Mikhail Gorbachev. Post-Soviet Russia and the Soviet successor states are also examined. 3 credits