Week 1: Primary Issues of the Course |
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Introduction: Geography, Sources, Background |
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2 |
The Origins of Rus' |
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Week 2: Rise of Kievan Rus' |
3 |
The Rise of the Kievan State, 10th-11th centuries |
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4 |
The State Structure of Kievan Rus', 11th-12th c.'s |
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Week 3: Kievan Civilization |
5 |
Economics and Society in Kievan Rus' |
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Week 4: The Decline of Kievan Rus' |
6 |
Succession Struggles |
Research Paper Topic and Preliminary Bibliography Due |
7 |
Novgorod, Galycia-Volynia, and Kievan Foreign Affairs |
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Week 5: The Golden Horde |
8 |
Mongol Conquest |
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9 |
The Russian Lands within the Golden Horde |
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Week 6: The Rise of Muscovy |
10 |
The Rise of the Daniilovichi |
Topic Presentations |
11 |
Unification and Centralization |
Topic Presentations |
Week 7: Muscovy at its Height |
12 |
Domestic Life in Muscovy |
Topic Presentations |
13 |
Ivan the Terrible |
Topic Presentations |
Week 8: The Government of Ivan the Terrible |
14 |
Government and Politics |
Topic Presentations |
15 |
Community and Law |
Topic Presentations |
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Research Paper Topic and Preliminary Bibliography Due |
Week 9: The Time of Troubles and its Aftermath |
16 |
The Time of Troubles |
Topic Presentations |
17 |
Reconstruction and the First Romanovs |
Topic Presentations |
Week 10: The Seventeenth Century |
18 |
Law and Society |
Topic Presentations |
19 |
Social Critics |
Topic Presentations |
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Final Paper (7-10 pages) |
Week 11: Culture and Change in the Late Seventeenth Century |
20 |
The Church and the Schism |
Topic Presentations |
21 |
Peter the Great: Personality and Challenges |
Topic Presentations |
Week 12: Peter the Great in Power |
22 |
Peter the Great: Taxes and Serfdom |
Topic Presentations |
23 |
18th Century Government and Politics |
Topic Presentations |
Week 13: Life in the Eighteenth Century |
24 |
Religion and Social Order |
Topic Presentations |
25 |
Everyday Life |
Topic Presentations |
Week 14: Eighteenth-Century Politics and Culture |
26 |
Peter the Great's Heritage |
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27 |
Review |
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Final Exam |