History Of Soviet Russian. English

Russia from the beginning of the 20th c. to the 21th c. Social, economy, policy, culture transformations.

What you'll learn

Understand the evolution of the Russian state and society: reforms' and contr-reforms, wars and international treaties XXc.

Identify the issues of international relationship: WWI, WWII, Cold War.

Identify Russian monarchism, democratic and social democracy ideology, communism, terrorism

Understand the specifics of Russian political opposition and methods of its struggle.

Requirements

The curiosity about Russian/Soviet history

The interest in the attempt of socialism and communism’s construction.

English

Description

In 1991, a huge empire, the USSR, collapsed. It existed for almost 70 years and largely determined world history in the 20th century. Who is to blame, how it all began, how it ended, what was done in the attempt to achieve socialism/communism, who participated, and who led—this educational course tells. 22 lessons with applications (original historical sources, diagrams, links to videos, and articles) will introduce you to Soviet history. This fascinating reading and video will allow you to understand the present and future of your own country, find commonalities and differences, and draw conclusions about the role of each person in historical turns. Many aspects of historical development are considered: changes in the political system as a result of reforms and revolutions (1905-1907, 1917, Stolypin's reforms, adoption of the Constitutions of 1918, 1922, 1936, 1977, 1993, overcoming the cult of personality and the dissident movement, authoritarianism of Putin in the early 21st century), transformations of economic life (war communism, New Economic Policy, industrialization and collectivization, recovery after World War II, reforms of the time of stagnation, perestroika, reforms of 1990s), foreign policy (world wars, the Cold War, propaganda and imposition of socialism in Europe / Asia / Africa, international relations of the period of "détente", 1980s and 1990s).

Overview

Section 1: The collapse of the Russian Empire at the beginning of the 20th c.

Lecture 1 Introduction

Lecture 2 Russia at the beginning of the 20th century. Revolution and reforms

Lecture 3 The first experience of Russian parliamentarism

Lecture 4 Foreign policy of Russia at the beginning of the 20th century

Lecture 5 Revolutions of 1917

Section 2: Soviet Russia in 1920-1930

Lecture 6 Civil War in Russia. 1917-1922

Lecture 7 The Soviet State in the 1920s

Lecture 8 The new economic policy

Lecture 9 Socio-economic development of the USSR in the late 1920s - 1930s.

Lecture 10 The Soviet political system in the 1930s

Section 3: Foreign policy of the USSR before and during World War II

Lecture 11 Versailles-Washington system of international relations

Lecture 12 World War II

Section 4: Internal policy of the USSR 1945-1953

Lecture 13 USSR in 1945–1953. Overcoming the consequences of war and the cult of Stalin’s p

Lecture 14 Domestic Policy 1950-1965. "Khrushchev's Thaw"

Lecture 15 Foreign policy of the 1950s-1960s. Cold War.

Section 5: Domestic and Foreign Policy of the USSR In 1965-1984

Lecture 16 USSR in the 1960s – mid-80s. Growing crisis phenomena. The stagnation

Lecture 17 USSR in the mid-1980s–early 1990s. "Perestroika"

Section 6: THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION IN THE 1990s - THE BEGINNING OF THE 21ST CENTURY

Lecture 18 Reforms of the 1990s

Lecture 19 Russian Federation at the beginning of the 21st century. Autocracy of V.V. Putin

Lecture 20 Tandem of V.V. Putin and D.A. Medvedev. Part 2.

Lecture 21 Domestic policy 2012–2017. Third presidential term of V.V. Putin

Lecture 22 The fourth presidential term of V.V. Putin

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