Maps: The Expansion of Muscovy in the 16th and 17th centuries -- Maps: The Expansion of the Russian Empire in the 18th century -- Maps: Russian Expansion under Catherine the Great -- Russia at its Greatest Extent -- Pt. 1. The Russian Empire: How and Why -- Pt. 2. State-building. 1. The First Crises of empire. 2. The Secular State of Peter the Great. 3. Assimilating Peter's Heritage. 4. The Apogee of the Secular State -- Pt. 3. Social classes, religion and culture in Imperial Russia. 1. The Nobility. 2. The Army. 3. The Peasantry. 4. The Orthodox Church. 5. Towns and the Missing Bourgeoisie. 6. The Birth of the Intelligentsia. 7. Literature as 'Nation-Builder' -- Pt. 4. Imperial Russia under pressure. 1. The Reforms of Alexander II. 2. Russian Socialism. 3. Russification. 4. The Revolution of 1905-7. 5. The Duma Monarchy. 6. The Revolution of 1917 -- Afterthoughts on the Soviet Experience
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