History of Russia: From Peter the Great to Gorbachev

Hear about 300 years of Russian history from a renowned author and world-class historian who was a student in the Soviet Union.

• By This Professor
• 01: Understanding the Russian Past
• 02: The Russia of Peter the Great's Childhood
• 03: Peter the Great's Revolution
• 04: The Age of Empresses-Catherine the Great
• 05: Social Rebellion-The Purgachev Uprising
• 06: Moral Rebellion-Nikolai Novikov
• 07: Alexander I-Imagining Reform
• 08: The Decembrist Rebellion
• 09: Nicholas I-Orthodoxy, Autocracy, Nationality
• 10: Alexander Pushkin, Russia's National Poet
• 11: The Birth of the Intelligentsia
• 12: Westernizers-Vissarion Belinskii
• 13: Alexander II and the Great Reforms
• 14: Nihilists
• 15: Populists and Marxists
• 16: Paths to Revolution-Lenin and Martov
• 17: Lev Tolstoy
• 18: The Reign of Alexander III
• 19: Nicholas II, The Last Tsar
• 20: The Revolution of 1905
• 21: Peasant Life and Culture
• 22: The Modern City and Its Discontents
• 23: Fin-de-Siecle Culture-Decadence and Iconoclasm
• 24: Fin-de-Siecle Culture-The Religious Renaissance
• 25: War and Revolution
• 26: Democratic Russia-1917
• 27: Bolsheviks in Power
• 28: Civil War
• 29: Paths to Socialism-the 1920s
• 30: Joseph Stalin
• 31: Stalin's Revolution
• 32: Joy and Terror-Society and Culture in the 1930s
• 33: The "Great Patriotic War"
• 34: The Soviet Union After Stalin
• 35: Private and Public Dissidence
• 36: Mikhail Gorbachev-Perestroika and Glasnost