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The Making of Russia in the Worlds of Byzantium, Mongolia, and Europe >> Content Detail



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LEC #TOPICSKEY DATES
Week 1: Primary Issues of the Course
1Introduction: Geography, Sources, Background
2The Origins of Rus'
Week 2: Rise of Kievan Rus'
3The Rise of the Kievan State, 10th-11th centuries
4The State Structure of Kievan Rus', 11th-12th c.'s
Week 3: Kievan Civilization
5Economics and Society in Kievan Rus'
Week 4: The Decline of Kievan Rus'
6Succession StrugglesResearch Paper Topic and Preliminary Bibliography Due
7Novgorod, Galycia-Volynia, and Kievan Foreign Affairs
Week 5: The Golden Horde
8Mongol Conquest
9The Russian Lands within the Golden Horde
Week 6: The Rise of Muscovy
10 The Rise of the DaniilovichiTopic Presentations
11Unification and CentralizationTopic Presentations
Week 7: Muscovy at its Height
12Domestic Life in MuscovyTopic Presentations
13Ivan the TerribleTopic Presentations
Week 8: The Government of Ivan the Terrible
14Government and PoliticsTopic Presentations
15Community and LawTopic Presentations
Research Paper Topic and Preliminary Bibliography Due
Week 9: The Time of Troubles and its Aftermath
16The Time of TroublesTopic Presentations
17Reconstruction and the First RomanovsTopic Presentations
Week 10: The Seventeenth Century
18Law and SocietyTopic Presentations
19Social CriticsTopic Presentations
Final Paper (7-10 pages)
Week 11: Culture and Change in the Late Seventeenth Century
20The Church and the SchismTopic Presentations
21Peter the Great: Personality and ChallengesTopic Presentations
Week 12: Peter the Great in Power
22Peter the Great: Taxes and SerfdomTopic Presentations
2318th Century Government and PoliticsTopic Presentations
Week 13: Life in the Eighteenth Century
24Religion and Social OrderTopic Presentations
25Everyday LifeTopic Presentations
Week 14: Eighteenth-Century Politics and Culture
26Peter the Great's Heritage
27Review
Final Exam

 








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