Wk	Date		Topic	Cultural Atlas	Milner-Gulland	Other coursepack	Other required reading	Required internet study
1	April	1	Russia's Eurasian Geographic Context	12-25				Wild Russia
								NUPI Database > "Ethnic groups": how many ethnic groups live in Russia?
	April	3	Russia in Europe		4-28			World Factbook Nation Rankings
2	April	8	Russians and Russian: an East Slavic language and its expansion	25-29	37-47			Ethnologue: Russian and related languages
	April	10	Traders & Colonists: Vikings, Steppe People, and the Route to Wealth	30-38	47-55	Roesdahl 277-92
3	April	15	The First East Slavic State (Rus) & the Cultural Heritage of Novgorod (10th - 11th century)	38-49, 70-71	29	Ware, 73-87, 264-267
	April	17	The Decline and Fall of the First East Slavic State (12th - 13th century)	50-53				Architectural monuments: 12th-century Russia
4	April	22	The Second East Slavic State (Rossiia): Moscow, Muscovy, and the end of the Rurikid dynasty	54-69, 72-79	1 - 3	Ware, 102-108
	April	24	Review for Midterm
5	April	29	Midterm Exam (essay format)
	May	1	Religious Dissent and Secularization: Schism & the Old Belief	74-93		Ware, 109-116		Wikipedia "Surikov" > image of Boyarynia Morozova
6	May	6	Peter the Great & the Russian Empire in the 18th Century	93-114
	May	8	Peter the Great & Catherine the Great				Pushkin, The Bronze Horseman	Wikipedia "Surikov" > image of Bronze Horseman
7	May	13	Russia in Europe: the Napoleonic Wars and their aftermath	114-119
	May	15	Expanding Empire; Midterm short answer (in section)				Tolstoy, Hadji Murat
8	May	20	Problems at Home: Decembrists, the Petrashevsky Circle, and the Government Response	120-125
	May	22	The Crimean War	125-126			Tolstoy, Sebastopol Sketches
9	May	27	The Aftermath of the Crimean War: Reform in the reign of Alexander II	127-135
	May	29	Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground: a Tale of Two Decades				Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
10	June	3
	June	5	Conclusion & Review for Final Exam

			Final Exam	Thursday June 12 @ 8 am