IMPERIAL RUSSIA Spring 2007 Prof. Nathaniel Knight
		COURSE SCHEDULE:
January 9, 16, 23, 30	February 6, 13, 20, 27		March 13, 20, 27		April 3, 10, 17, 24

Jan. 9	Introduction: Russia: the Land and People Readings       Moss, Chapter 1. Outline:       The Russian Land: Geography, Ethnography and Early History
Jan. 11	Russia in the 17th Century Readings:       Moss, Chapter 10       Recommended: Moss, Chapters 11-12 Documents       Samuel Collins on the Court of Aleksei Mikhailovich Outlines       Seventeen Century Russia
Jan. 16	Peter the Great as Man and Ruler Readings:       Moss, Chapter 13 Course Packet: Contrasting Views of Peter Documents       Pavel Miliukov on Peter the Great Outline:       Peter the Great
Jan. 18	The Petrine Reforms Documents:       How Russians Celebrated the Year 1700       The Table of Ranks Outline:       The Reforms of Peter the Great
Jan. 23	Discussion on Petrine Russia       One page discussion papers due Russia after Peter: 1725-1740 Readings:       Moss, Chapter 14 (pp. 251-256) Documents:       The Succession Crisis of 1730 Course Packet:       Documents on 1730 Outline:       The Era of Palace Coups
Jan. 25	An Empire of the Nobility? The Reign of Elizabeth I Readings:       Moss, Chapter 14, pp. 256-265 Course Packet:       The Memoirs of Catherine the Great (excerpts)
Jan 30	Catherine the Great: Russia’s Enlightened Despot Readings:      Moss, Chapter 15      Start reading Pushkin, The Captain's Daughter Outline:      Catherine the Great Document:      Catherine the Great's Instructions to the Legislative Commission
Feb. 1	Catherine as Reformer and Empire Builder Readings:      Moss, Chapter 16 Outline:      The Russian Empire under Catherine the Great Documents:      The Pugachev Rebellion
Feb. 6	Russia Society and Culture under Catherine. Readings:      Moss, Chapter 17      Pushkin, The Captain's Daughter Documents:      Alexander Radishchev, Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow. Course Packet:      Yuri Lotman, The Poetics of Everyday Behavior in Russian Eighteenth Century Culture Start reading Nikitenko, Up from Serfdom
Feb. 8	Regicide and Reform--Paul I and the Early Years of Alexander I. Readings:      Moss, Chapter 18, pp. 331-338 Outlines:      The Reign of Paul I      Alexander I
Feb. 13	The Napoleonic Wars Readings:       Moss, Chapter 18, pp. 338-343 Outline:       Russia and the Napoleonic Wars
Feb. 15	The Decembrist Revolt Readings:      Moss, Chapter 18, pp. 344-354 Course Packet—"The Decembrists" Outline:      The Last Years of Alexander I and the Decembrist Revolt First Paper Due
Feb. 20	Nicholas I--the Apogee of Autocracy Readings:      Moss, Chapter 19
Feb. 22	Slavophiles, Westernizers and the "Golden Age" of Russian Culture Readings:       Moss, Chapter 21 Course Packet:       Isaiah Berlin, "A Remarkable Decade" Outline:       Russia under Nicholas I Document:       Petr Chaadaev, Philosophical Letters         Vissarion Belinsky, Letter to Gogol
Feb. 27	Cracks in the Ediface--Serfdom and Foreign Policy. Readings:       Moss, Chapter 20       Start reading Turgenev, Fathers and Children Outline:       The Crimean War and the Roots of the Great Reforms
March 1	Mid-term Exam Mid-term review sheet
March 6-8	Spring Break
March 13	Alexander II and the Emancipation Readings:       Moss, Chapter 22, pp. 422-427 Outline:       The Great Reforms Document:       The Emancipation Manifesto         Aleksandr Nikitenko on the Emancipation
March 15	The Era of the Great Reforms: Hopes and Disillusionment Readings:       Moss, Chapter 22, pp. 427-438 Course Packet:      Vera Figner, Memoirs Document:       Iartsev, Proclamation of a Populist Activist Outline:       The Revolutionary Movement: 1861-1881
March 20	Discussion on Kovalevskaia and Figner
March 22	In Search of the Nation: Russian Nationalism and Imperialism Readings:       Moss, Chapter 24, pp. 465-477       N. Knight, The Empire on Display: The All-Russian Ethnographic Exposition of 1867 Outline:       The Russian Empire: At Home and Abroad
March 27	Alexander III and the Counterreforms Readings:       Moss, Chapter 23, pp. 441-446       Moss, Chapter 24, pp. 477-479 Outline:       Defenders of the Old Order Documents:       Alexander III, Manifesto of April 29, 1881       Konstantin Podebonotsev: Ideologist of Reaction.
March 29	Russia’s Growing Pains:  Industrialization and the Peasant Problem Reading:       Moss, Chapter 23, pp. 446-449; Chapter 26       Course Packet: Semen Kanatchikov,
April 3	From "Soslovie" to Class: Urbanization and Social Identity Readings:        Moss, Chapter 26. Course Packet:        Rieber, The Sedimentary Society        Freeze, The Soslovie Paradigm        Bradley, Subjects into Citizens
April 5	Easter break -- no classes
April 10	Nicholas II and the Crisis of Autocracy Readings:        Moss, Chapter 23, pp. 443-457 Outline:        The Crisis of Autocracy
April 12	The Revolution of 1905-07 Readings:        Moss Chapter 25, pp. 483-489        Course Packet: Woytinsky, Stormy Passage Documents:        Worker’s Petition, January 9, 1905        Manifesto of October 17, 1905 Outline:        The Revolution of 1905
April 17	Russia’s Constitutional Experiment: Stolypin’s Wager on the Strong Readings:       Moss, Chapter 25, pp. 489-495 Documents:  Manifesto on the Dissolution of the Second Duma
April 19	Russia's Silver Age Readings:       Moss, Chapter 27 Course Packet:  "Landmarks"
April 24	Onset of Armageddom--Russia During W. W. I Readings:       Moss, Chapter 25, pp. 504-509
April 26	The End of the Russian Empire--Review for Final Readings:       Moss, Chapter 25, pp. 509-513