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The Making of Russia in the Worlds of Byzantium, Mongolia, and Europe
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- Instructor
- Prof. Elizabeth A. Wood
- Term
- Spring 1998
- Level
- Undergraduate
- What's inside
- 1 reading · 4 other files · 4 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 21H.326 The Making of Russia in the Worlds of Byzantium, Mongolia, and Europe, Spring 1998, Prof. Elizabeth A. Wood — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: MIT's own listing order, section by section. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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- A lecture sequence of 27 items is confirmed. It stays as organized materials rather than a full course order.
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Assignments
- Research Paper in Muscovite History Download
- Weekly response papers Download
- First Essay: Analysis of Kievan Sources Download
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Course outline
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Lecture 2: The Origins of Rus'
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Lecture 3: The Rise of the Kievan State, 10th-11th centuries
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Lecture 4: The State Structure of Kievan Rus’, 11th-12th c.’s
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Lecture 5: Economics and Society in Kievan Rus'
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Lecture 6: Succession Struggles
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Lecture 7: Novgorod, Galycia-Volynia, and Kievan Foreign Affairs
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Lecture 8: Mongol Conquest
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Lecture 9: The Russian Lands within the Golden Horde
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Lecture 10: The Rise of the Daniilovichi
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Lecture 11: Unification and Centralization
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Lecture 12: Domestic Life in Muscovy
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Lecture 13: Ivan the Terrible
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Lecture 14: Government and Politics
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Lecture 15: Community and Law
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Lecture 16: The Time of Troubles
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Lecture 17: Reconstruction and the First Romanovs
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Lecture 18: Law and Society
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Lecture 19: Social Critics
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Lecture 20: The Church and the Schism
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Lecture 21: Peter the Great: Personality and Challenges
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Lecture 22: Peter the Great: Taxes and Serfdom
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Lecture 23: 18th Century Government and Politics
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Lecture 24: Religion and Social Order
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Lecture 25: Everyday Life
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Lecture 26: Peter the Great’s Heritage
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Lecture 27: Review
MIT OpenCourseWare, Prof. Elizabeth A. Wood, 21H.326 The Making of Russia in the Worlds of Byzantium, Mongolia, and Europe, Spring 1998.
License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · Edition: Spring 1998 · Open the original course on OCW ↗
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