Dec 05, 2025  
2025-2026 Undergraduate Bulletin 
    
2025-2026 Undergraduate Bulletin
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HIST 137 - From Backwater to Empire: Russia until 1917

Semester Hours: 3
Every other year

A study of such influences as Greek orthodoxy and the Tartar Conquest on the development of Russian society and its institutions. The role of “economic backwardness” and the compulsion toward modernization. The development of the autocracy and the rural peasant-serf style of life. The blossoming of Russian culture in the Age of Enlightenment and the French Revolution up through expansion of Russia into a multinational empire spanning east to west, lurching toward revolution.


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