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HISTORY OF
KIEV, MUSCOVY AND
This course
surveys the earliest years of Eastern Slavic history, the historical background
to Eastern and the present-day successor states of the USSR, principally
the Russian Federation. Lacking many of the sources that enrich medieval
history in the heart of Europe, this course augments its use of chronicle-based
history with anthropological and folkloric materials in order to consider
the nature of Kievan and Muscovite society.
introduction LECTURE 1: epistemology,
historiography, themes LECTURE 2: sources
and methods
historical
background LECTURE 3: E.
European topography and geography Richard
Pipes, Russia Under the Old Regime (London, 1974), chapt. 1 LECTURE 4: subsistence
agriculture Janet
Martin, Medieval Russia, 980-1584 (Cambridge, 1995), selections LECTURE 5: fur
and slaves Janet
Martin, Treasure of the Land of Darkness: the fur trade and its significance(Cambridge,
1986), selections LECTURE 6: debate
over the "continuity thesis" Martin,
Medieval Russia, 980-1584, selections
Kiev Rus' LECTURE 7: early
political systems and the rise of Rus' Franklin,
The Emergence of Rus, 750-1200, selections LECTURE 8: the
nature of the Kievan political system Martin,
Medieval Russia, 980-1584, selections LECTURE 9: the
Keivan cultural heritage Fennell,
The Crisis of Medieval Russia, 1200-1304, selections
the Tatars LECTURE 10: "Mongol
Yoke," "Golden Horde" Fennell,
The Crisis of Medieval Russia, 1200-1304, selections LECTURE 11: the
Mongol-Tatar epoch Halperin,
Russia and the Golden Horde: the Mongol impact on medieval Russian history LECTURE 12: Vladimir,
Suzdal and Muscovy Fennell,
The Crisis of Medieval Russia, 1200-1304, selections LECTURE 13: the
Muscovite political system Martin,
Medieval Russia, 980-1584, selections LECTURE 14: steppe
politics Ostrowski,
Muscovy and the Mongols: cross-cultural influences on the steppe frontier,
selections LECTURE 15: Novgorod
and Muscovy Martin,
Medieval Russia, 980-1584, selections
LECTURE 16: Ivan
the Great: imperial style and ideology Crummey,
The Formation of Muscovy, 1304-1613, selections LECTURE 17: cavalry
and court Kollman,
"Muscovite Russia, 1450-1598," in Russia: a History, selections LECTURE 18: institutions Richard
Hellie, Economy and Material Culture of Russia (Chicago, 1999), selections LECTURE 19: religion
as custom and institution Martin,
Medieval Russia, 980-1584, selections LECTURE 20: cultural
patterns Kollman,
"Muscovite Russia, 1450-1598," in Russia: a History, selections
Ivan the Terrible LECTURE 21: Ivan the myth
LECTURE 22: Ivan
the ruler Platonov,
Ivan the Terrible, selections LECTURE 23: Ivan
and the Oprichnina Platonov,
Ivan the Terrible, selections
Muscovite modernism LECTURE 24: flux Hans
Joachim Torke, "From Muscovy towards St. Petersburg, 1598-1698,"
in Russia: a History, selections LECTURE 25: Time
of Troubles, 1605-13 Alexander
Pushkin, Boris Godunov, entire LECTURE 26: social
and economic change Torke,
"From Muscovy towards St. Petersburg, 1598-1698", selections LECTURE 27: debates
over absolutism "Enserfing
the Russian Peasantry: the Ulozhenie," in Major Problems in the History
of Imperial Russia, selections LECTURE 28: Muscovy
through western eyes Sigmund
Freiherr von Herberstein, Notes upon Russia, being a translation of the
earliest account of that country, entitled Rerum Moscoviticarum commentarii,
edited by R. Major (New York, 1963?), selections LECTURE 29: cultural
encounter with the West D. Mirsky,
A History of Russian Literature (New York, 1966), selections LECTURE 30: Muscovite
women between terem and Domostroi C. Pouncy,
The Domostroi (New York, 1992), selections LECTURE 31: Peter
the Great as Muscovite tsar S. F. Platonov, "Peter the Great: Not a Revolutionary Innovator," in Peter the Great: Reformer or Revolutionary, edited by Mark Raeff, selections, 283-338
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