Selected research guides in Russian history. Compiled by students in HI446 Revolutionary Russia, HI273 Russia and Its Empires since 1900, HI200 The Historian’s Craft, and HI 102 The Emergence of Modern Europe.
HI 446
Research guides for the seminar on Revolutionary Russia were created and compiled on that class’s sites.bu.edu website. Further resources can be found here.
- The Ballets Russes: Fokine, Balanchine, and Stravinsky
- Bolshevik State Surveillance Practices
- Changes in Educational Ideology and Format: 18th- to 20th-Century Practices
- Pronatalism and Population Management in Russia
- The Role of Terror in Late Imperial Russia
- The Russian Civil War
- Terror and Policing in Revolutionary Russia
- Traditional Gender Roles and Female Political Participation in Russian Society
- The Tsar and Russian Civil Society (1905-1917)
- The Use of Soviet Non-Literary Media
- The Women of the Revolution
HI 200
- Collective Memory Of Russia’s Last Imperial Family
- Peasant Life and Serfdom under Tsarist Russia
- Peter the Great and the Modernization of Russia
- Russian Mediterranean Sea Interest Before World War I
HI273
- Atomic Spies and the Cold War
- Dmitri Shostakovich
- The Holodomor
- Ideology of Soviet Sport
- Khrushchev’s Peaceful Coexistence
- The Komsomol
- The Role of Sports in The Soviet Union
- Russia’s Impact on Afghanistan
- Soviet Cinema: 1917-1953
- The Soviet Cult of Childhood
- Soviet Science
- The Soviet Union and the Olympics
- Stalin and the Great Terror
- Stalin’s Purges and World War II
- The War in Afghanistan and its Effects on the Soviet Economy
- Women Under Stalin
HI102