HIST 328: Rise of Russia

HIST 328-DL1: Rise of Russia
(Fall 2023)

Online

Section Information for Fall 2023

Just how “Russian” was the Russian Empire? In 1900, just over half of its 125 million residents were ethnically non-Russian people that we would today describe as Ukrainians, Poles, Jews, and Tatars, among others. This course surveys the Russian Empire’s rise as a multiethnic state, from its medieval Byzantine and Mongol roots through its consolidation under Peter and Catherine the Great and into its collapse in the turmoil of World War I. Lectures and readings combine a view from the imperial center of Saint Petersburg with perspectives from the empire’s borderlands, considering how ideas and ideologies crossed cultural boundaries while reconstructing the uneven implementation of policies and reforms on the ground. Students will learn how the Russian Empire accommodated a patchwork of overlapping ethnic, regional, religious, class, estate, and gender identities while examining how state power, industrialization, nationalism, colonialism, and mass politics developed in a part of the world different from Western Europe and North America. The course assumes no prior familiarity with these topics and emphasizes the mastery of debates and concepts in imperial Russian history through the written analysis of primary documents.
Instructor: Prof. Marcel Garbos

 

HIST 328 DL1 is an online asynchronous section.

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Course Information from the University Catalog

Credits: 3

Political, social, and cultural development of Russia from early times to the end of the 19th century. Limited to three attempts.
Mason Core: Global Understanding
Specialized Designation: Non-Western Culture
Schedule Type: Lecture
Grading:
This course is graded on the Undergraduate Regular scale.

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