Russian History Club
862 - 1861 - 2010
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The Russian History club meets every Thursday at 2:30, Room 102
Russian History Club is a low-key club, where new people are always welcome to join. Just come on in!
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Popular events covered include:
| | - the founding of Kievan Russia
- the fall of the Soviet Union
- the founding of the Russian Federation in 1993
- the founding of Orthodox Russia under Vladimir I & Ivan the Terrible
- the Westernization of Russia under Peter the Great
- the Bolshevik Revolution
- the reign of Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev, Gorbachev
- and the new Russia under Putin & Medvedev |
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We discuss:
| | - Russian art -- the paintings of Repin and Surikov
- architecture
- icons
- politics
- literature -- the novels of Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, and the short stories of Chekov and Gogol
- music
- culture
- poetry
- film
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Readings: Text—Nicholas Riasanovsky, “A History of Russia” Primary Text for both semesters.Primary Source Readings: Daniel Kaiser, “Reinterpreting Russian History: Readings, 860-1860’s”. Summer Reading: Hughes, Lindsey. Peter the Great: A Biography. Madariaga, Isabel. Ivan the Terrible.