The next Great Course on Ch. 970 “History of Russia: From Peter the Great to Gorbachev” starts Saturday, January 8, 3-4 pm.
Mark Steinberg, Ph.D., professor of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will lead it
Dr. Steinberg earned his Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley, and has taught at Harvard and Yale. He draws on his own years of experience as an author, a student in the Soviet Union in the 1980s, and more recently, as a world-class historian granted access to once-secret government archives.
Over 36 half-hour sessions, the course will focus on 300 years of Russian history from Peter the Great to Gorbachev by examining the lives of the men and women who, in fact, were Russia. This is history told through biography.