| Edition |
Library edition. |
| Description |
18 audio discs : digital + 1 course guidebook (iii, 63 pages ; 22 cm.). |
| Series |
Great courses |
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Great courses (Compact discs)
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| Performer |
Lectures presented by Mark Steinberg, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. |
| Summary |
Discusses why the history of Russia is significant for us both as a story of events that had great impact on modern world history and as a story of human experience. |
| Contents |
Understanding the Russian past -- The Russia of Peter the Great's childhood -- Peter the Great's revolution -- The Age of empresses: Catherine the Great -- Social rebellion: the Purgachev uprising -- Moral rebellion: Nikolai Novikov -- Alexander I: Imagining reform -- The Decembrist rebellion -- Nicholas I: orthodoxy, autocracy, nationality -- Alexander Pushkin, Russia's national poet -- The birth of the intelligentsia -- Westernizers: Vissarion Belinskii. |
| System Details |
Compact discs. |
| Note |
GMD: sound recording. |
| Subject |
Peter I, Emperor of Russia, 1672-1725.
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Catherine II, Empress of Russia, 1729-1796.
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Russia -- History -- 1689-1801.
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Russia -- History -- 1801-1917.
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Russia -- Kings and rulers.
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| Added Author |
Teaching Company.
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| Added Title |
Peter the Great to Gorbachev |
| ISBN |
1565856333 |
| Music No. |
8380 Teaching Company |
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