Month: January 2018

Welcome to The Lasting Effects of a Soviet Sphere of Influence

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Hi! Thanks for visiting my blog! The Lasting Effects of a Soviet Sphere of Influence is the compilation of my Twentieth Century Russia undergraduate course. I have been interested in Soviet history since visiting St. Petersburg (or should I say Petrograd!) in the summer of 2016, and wanted to learn more through this course. I …

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Welcome to The Lasting Effects of a Soviet Sphere of Influence

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Hi! Thanks for visiting my blog! The Lasting Effects of a Soviet Sphere of Influence is the compilation of my Twentieth Century Russia undergraduate course. I have been interested in Soviet history since visiting St. Petersburg (or should I say Petrograd!) in the summer of 2016, and wanted to learn more through this course. I …

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First Blog Post Guidelines

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Sergeĭ Mikhaĭlovich Prokudin-Gorskiĭ, “Nadgrobnyĭ Kamenʹ Na Mogilie Khadzhi-Khusein-Beka, Dostavlennyĭ Tamerlanom,” still image, 1910, //www.loc.gov/pictures/item/prk2000000803/.

For your first blog post, please select a photograph from this online exhibit at the Library of Congress and analyze it in the context of social and economic change in late Imperial Russia.

A photograph such as this one, for example, might lead you to explore the religious, ethnic and economic diversity of this vast country. Looking forward to our discussions over the next couple of weeks, you should think about how the combination of economic modernization and the autocracy’s resistance to political change would inform developments leading up to the fall of the Romanov dynasty and the rise of the Bolsheviks in 1917.

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