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In the early twentieth century, Russia was engulfed by revolutionary activity, with peaks in 1905, winter/spring of 1917 and again in the fall of 1917. In this 4-part course, we’ll talk about the preconditions that ultimately brought Russia to the implosion of the 300-year-old political system; we’ll meet the important figures of that era; and we’ll examine the events of the three revolutions that shook the country in a quick succession. The ultimate question in this course is why and how Russia turned from the country of Tolstoy and Tchaikovsky to the country of the Gulag camps.
Asya Pereltsvaig received a degree in English and History from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a PhD in Linguistics from McGill University. She taught at Yale, Cornell, and Stanford universities, and has been teaching in lifelong education programs since 2010. Her expertise is in language, culture, and history, and the relationship between them. Asya has published seven scholarly books with Cambridge University Press. Asya is a popular instructor for several Osher Lifelong Learning Institutes.
