Week one            1/10–Introduction

Week two            Russia after the Great Reforms
            1/15         Anna Karenina Part 1, ch. 1-11
                            Walter Moss, Alexander II and his Times, pt. 1
                            Isaiah Berlin, "The Hedgehog and the Fox" (excerpts) [pdf]
 
            1/17         Library Orientation
                            Alexander Polunov, Russia in the Nineteenth Century, 3-69 

Week three          
            1/22         The Moscow Nobility.
                            Anna Karenina Part 1, ch. 12-23.
                            Polunov, pp. 87-110
                            "The Winter Palace and Tsar’s Ball"

            1/23         Russia in Transit
                            Anna Karenina Part 1, ch. 24-32. 
                            Sidney Monas, "Moscow and St. Petersburg as Cultural Symbols" 
                            Mackenzie Wallace, "Travelling in Russia." 

Week four
            1/29         Petersburg "Society"
                            Anna Karenina Part 2 ch. 1-11.
                            Polunov, pp. 110-138
                            St. Petersburg: The Imperial City, pts. 1, 2, 6. 
                            Walter Moss, Alexander II and his Times, pt. 2  

            1/31         A Landed Proprietor gets Fleeced
                            Anna Karenina Part 2, ch. 12-17 
                            Roberta Manning, The Crisis of the Old Regime, chapter 1 
                            Seymour Becker, Nobility and Privilege in Late Imperial Russia, ch. 1
                            Mackenzie Wallace, "The Towns and the Mercantile Classes." 
                            Mackenzie Wallace, "The Landed Proprietors since the Emancipation."

Week five
            2/5           A Day at the Races
                            Anna Karenina Part 2, ch. 18-29 
                            William Fuller, Civil-Military Conflict in Imperial Russia, ch. 1 

            2/7           The Shcherbatskys take the Waters
                            Anna Karenina Part 2, ch. 30-35 

Week six
            2/12         The Agrarian Problem
                            Anna Karenina Part 3, ch. 1-12 
                            Cathy Frierson, Peasant Icons, ch. 2. 

            2/14         Russia’s Empire: Who was Serpukhovskoy?
                            Anna Karenina Part 3, ch. 13-23 
                            Daniel Brower, "Imperial Russia and its Orient: The Renown of Przhevalskii"
                            David Schimmelpenninck, Toward the Rising Sun, excerpts.
                            Dostoevsky, "Goek Tepe: What is Asia to Us?"

Week seven
            2/19         Country Squires Old and New
                            Anna Karenina Part 3, ch. 24-32: 
                            Alexander Engelhardt, Letters from the Countryside
                            Mackenzie Wallace, "Landed Proprietors of the Old School;" 
                                                            "Proprietors of the Modern School." 

            2/21         Marriage and Divorce
                            Anna Karenina Part 4, ch. 1-13 
                            William Wagner, "The Trojan Mare" 
                            Laura Engelstein, The Keys to Happiness, ch. 1

Week eight
            2/26         The Perils of Childbirth.
                            Anna Karenina Part 4, ch. 14-23, 
                            Samuel Ramer, "Childbirth and Culture." 
                            Nancy Frieden, "Childcare: Medical Reform in a Traditionalist Culture"

            2/28         Mid-Term exam

Week nine
            3/4           Conferences

            3/6           A Russian Artist at Work.
                            Anna Karenina Part 5, ch. 1-13 (416-435) 
                            Chapter on Art in Cambridge Companion

Week ten

           3/11          Who was Nikolai Levin? The Radical Intelligentsia 
                            Anna Karenina Part 5, ch. 14-20 
                            Walter Moss, Alexander II and his Times, pt. 3 
                            Vera Figner, Memoirs

            3/13         Karenin gets a medal: The Imperial Bureaucracy
                            Anna Karenina Part 5, ch. 21-33 
                            Helju Aulik Bennett, "Chiny, Ordeny and Officialdom."

Week eleven

           3/18          Russian views of nature
                            Anna Karenina Part 6, ch. 1-15. 
                            Louise McReynolds, "Sport Hunting"

           3/20          Easter break

3/25 - 3/27          Spring Break

Week twelve

            4/1           The Politics of Rural Russia
                            Anna Karenina Part 6, ch. 16-32. 

            4/3           Obshchestvo and Intelligentsia
                            Anna Karenina Part 7, ch. 1-16.
                            Nathaniel Knight, "Was the Intelligentsia Part of the Nation?"
                            Joseph Bradley, "Subjects into Citizens"

Week thirteen
            4/8         Suicide 
                            Anna Karenina Part 7, ch. 17-27, 

            4/10         What was the Slavic Question? 
                            Anna Karenina Part 8, ch. 1-7 

Week fourteen
            4/15         Tolstoy’s search for Truth 
                            Anna Karenina Part 8, ch, 8-19

            4/17         Presentations

Week fifteen

            4/22         Presentations

            4/24         Presentationsw