1. Utopian Visions: The Soviet Experience through the Arts
Jan Plamper, Simon Huxtable

2. Week 2 Outline

3. Week 2
Russian History Part 1 (until 1917)

4. Soviet Union: Physical Map

7. St. Petersburg founded in 1703

8. early 18th-century map

10. Peter the Great (ruled 1689-1725), by Paul Delaroche, 1838

11. Catherine the Great (ruled 1762-1796), by J. B. Lampi, 1780s

12. Enlightenment

13. two main demands:

14. (1) constitutional monarchy

15. (1) constitutional monarchy (2) abolition of serfdom

16. 19th-century Napoleonic Wars

17. Russian Cossacks in Paris, 1814

19. быстро (bystro = ‘fast’)

20. Russian monarchy and part of nobility…

21. …parting of ways

22.  intelligentsia

23. Decembrist rebellion 1825

25. abolition of serfdom 1861

26. reforming monarchy: too little, too late

27. radicalisation of intelligentsia

28. 1872 Russian edition of Das Kapital by Karl Marx (orig. 1867)

29. Terrorists of People’s Will executed, 1881

30. Industrialisation, working class

31. split of Russian Social Democrats in 1903

32.  Bolsheviks and Mensheviks

33. 1905 Revolution

34.  1905-1917: constitutional monarchy

35. Romanov Tercentenary

36. : World War 1

37. February Revolution of 1917

38.  Russia = republic

39. Dual Power…

40. (1) provisional government

42. (1) provisional government (2) soviets

44. October Revolution of 1917