from LSC-Tomball Continuing Education

CZARS, COMMISSARS AND OILMEN:
MODERN RUSSIAN HISTORY

Modern Russia, under both the Empire of the Czars and the Soviet Union of the Communist Party, was the center of a multi-ethnic imperial state.   Since 1991, Russia has faced the complex challenge of developing as a modern nation state. In this overview course of lectures, we will attempt to

• understand how the autocratic Empire of the Czars was replaced by the totalitarian Soviet Union under Lenin and Stalin

• understand how the Soviet Union developed into a superpower under Khrushchev and Brezhnev, yet collapsed at the height of its international prestige under Gorbachev

• understand how the Russian Federation has developed with the forms of democratic, but the realities of a authoritarian petrostate.

February 24  — March 3 — March 10 — Thursday 4-6 pm on the Tomball campus in Room E 163

Please join me in Spring 2011 !!

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