RUSSIA: HISTORY AND CONTROVERSIAL LEADERS - PART II
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Vestavia Hills Civic Center 1090 Montgomery Highway, Vestavia Hills, Alabama 35216
OLLI of Greater Birmingham Presents Russia: History and Controversial Leaders – Part II with Jackie Nuby, retired Professor History, University of Montevallo. Feb 7: Review early Russian history covered in Part I during the fall of 2017: founding of Russia; early rulers; beginning of laws and Christianity; the Mongol invasion; Ivan III and IV; Time of Troubles; the Romanov dynasty; Peter the Great; Catherine the Great; and Alexander I, II, and III. Feb 14: Brewing of the Revolution, Bloody Sunday, Nicholas and Alexandra, and Rasputin. Feb 21: The Bolshevik Revolution: Trotsky, Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev, and the Cold War. Feb 28: From Khrushchev to Putin. An assessment of Russia in the present.