IMPERIAL RUSSIA Fall 2010 Prof. Nathaniel Knight
		COURSE SCHEDULE:
September 2, 14, 21, 28	October 5, 14, 19, 26		November 2, 9,16, 23		December 2, 7

August 31	Introduction: Russia: the Land and People Readings       Wortman, Introduction       Kamenskii, Introduction Outline:       The Russian Land: Geography, Ethnography and Early History
Sept 2	Russia in the 17th Century Readings:       Wortman, Chapter 1       Kamenskii, Chapter 1 Documents       Samuel Collins on the Court of Aleksei Mikhailovich Outlines       Seventeen Century Russia
Sept 7	Peter the Great as Man and Ruler Readings:       Kamenskii, Chapter 2 Blackboard: Contrasting Views of Peter Documents       Pavel Miliukov on Peter the Great Outline:       Peter the Great
Sept 9	The Petrine Reforms Readings:      Kamenskii, Chapter 3      Wortman, Chapter 2 Documents:       How Russians Celebrated the Year 1700       The Table of Ranks Outline:       The Reforms of Peter the Great
Sept. 14	Discussion on Petrine Russia       One page discussion papers due Russia after Peter: 1725-1740 Readings:       Kamenskii, Chapter 4 Documents:       The Succession Crisis of 1730 Outline:       The Era of Palace Coups
Sept. 16	An Empire of the Nobility? The Reign of Elizabeth I Readings:       Kamenskii, Chapter 6       Wortman, Chapter 3, pp. 40-51 Blackboard:       The Memoirs of Catherine the Great (excerpts)
Sept. 21	Catherine the Great: Russia’s Enlightened Despot Readings:      Kamenskii, Chapter 7      Wortman, Chapter 3, pp. 51-72      Start reading Pushkin, The Captain's Daughter Outline:      Catherine the Great Document:      Catherine the Great's Instructions to the Legislative Commission
Sept. 23	Catherine as Reformer and Empire Builder Readings:      Kamenskii, Chapter 7      Wortman, Chapter 4 Outline:      The Russian Empire under Catherine the Great Documents:      The Pugachev Rebellion
Sept. 28	Russia Society and Culture under Catherine. Readings:      Pushkin, The Captain's Daughter Documents:      Alexander Radishchev, Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow. Blackboard:      Yuri Lotman, The Poetics of Everyday Behavior in Russian Eighteenth Century Culture Start reading Nikitenko, Up from Serfdom
Sept. 30	Regicide and Reform--Paul I and the Early Years of Alexander I. Readings:      Kamenskii, Chapter 8 Outlines:      The Reign of Paul I      Alexander I
Oct. 5	The Napoleonic Wars Readings:       Polunov, Introduction       Wortman, Chapter 6 Outline:       Russia and the Napoleonic Wars
Oct. 7	The Decembrist Revolt Readings:      Polunov, Chapter 1 Blackboard:  The Decembrists Outline:      The Last Years of Alexander I and the Decembrist Revolt First Paper Due
Oct. 14	Nicholas I--the Apogee of Autocracy Readings:      Wortman, Chapter 7
Oct. 19	Slavophiles, Westernizers and the "Golden Age" of Russian Culture Readings:       Polunov, Chapter 2 Blackboard:       Isaiah Berlin, "A Remarkable Decade" Outline:       Russia under Nicholas I Document:       Petr Chaadaev, Philosophical Letters         Vissarion Belinsky, Letter to Gogol
Oct. 21	Cracks in the Ediface--Serfdom and Foreign Policy. Readings:       Polunov, Chapter 3       Wortman, Chapter 8 Outline:       The Crimean War and the Roots of the Great Reforms
Oct. 26	Mid-term Exam Mid-term review sheet
Oct. 28	Alexander II and the Emancipation Readings:       Polunov, Chapter 5       Wortman Chapters, 9-10. Outline:       The Great Reforms Document:       The Emancipation Manifesto         Aleksandr Nikitenko on the Emancipation
Nov. 2	The Era of the Great Reforms: Hopes and Disillusionment Readings:       Polunov, Chapter 5       Wortman, Chapter 11 Outline:       The Revolutionary Movement: 1861-1881
Nov. 4	In Search of the Nation: Russian Nationalism and Imperialism Readings:       Polunov, Chapter 6       Wortman, Chapter 12 Blackboard:       D. Brower, "Islam and Ethicity."       N. Knight, The Empire on Display: The All-Russian Ethnographic Exposition of 1867 Outline:       The Russian Empire: At Home and Abroad
Nov. 9	Sophie Kovalevskaia and Nigilistka: The Rise of Radicalism Readings:       Polunov, Chapter 7       Kovalevskaia, Nihilist Girl Blackboard:      Vera Figner, Memoirs Document:       Iartsev, Proclamation of a Populist Activist
Nov. 11	Alexander III and the Counterreforms Readings:       Wortman, Chapters 13-16       Polunov, Chapter 9 (Chapter 8 recommended) Outline:       Defenders of the Old Order Documents:       Alexander III, Manifesto of April 29, 1881       Konstantin Podebonotsev: Ideologist of Reaction.
Nov. 16	Russia’s Growing Pains:  Industrialization and the Peasant Problem Blackboard: Semen Kanatchikov, Memoirs
Nov. 18	From "Soslovie" to Class: Urbanization and Social Identity Blackboard:        Rieber, The Sedimentary Society Response paper due
Nov. 23	Nicholas II and the Crisis of Autocracy Readings:        Polunov, Chapter 10        Wortman, Chapter 17-19 Outline:        The Crisis of Autocracy
Nov. 25	Thanksgiving Break
Nov. 30	The Revolution of 1905-07 Readings:        Polunov, Chapter 11 Blackboard: Woytinsky, Stormy Passage Documents:        Worker’s Petition, January 9, 1905        Manifesto of October 17, 1905 Outline:        The Revolution of 1905
Dec. 2	Russia’s Constitutional Experiment: Stolypin’s Wager on the Strong Readings:       Polunov, Chapter 21 Documents:  Manifesto on the Dissolution of the Second Duma
Dec. 7	Onset of Armageddom--Russia on the eve of W. W. I Readings:       Wortman, Chapter 21 Course Packet:  "Landmarks"
Dec. 9	The End of the Autocracy--Review for Final Readings:       Polunov, Conclusion       Wortman, Chapter 22 Second Paper Due
Dec. 21	Final Exam.  Period 4 (2:30-4:30)