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Tom Gleason

Brown University

 

Filmed in June 2007.

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Interpreting the Volga Barge Haulers [1:05]

How was Russian society divided? [0:29]

How was Russia ruled under the tsars? [0:43]

Why was Marx important in Russia? [1:01]

What group of people triggered the 1905 Revolution? [1:54]

What were Petr Stolypin's ideas? [1:13]

How did the ruling class see the future of Russia? [0:51]

Why was World War I a catastrophe? [1:00]

What triggered the 1917 Revolution? [1:03]

Why was Lenin such an effective politician? [1:04]

Could democracy have succeeded in Russia in 1917? [0:41]

What was the legacy of the Russian Revolution? [2:27]

 

Tom Gleason is professor of history emeritus at Brown University and a Visiting Fellow at the Watson Institute. His areas of interest include national identity in the Soviet Union/Russia and the United States from 1830-1930, and the history of the Cold War. A Brown professor for over 30 years, he is the former chair of the history department and a former director of the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies at the Wilson Center, Washington, D.C. He recently co-edited with Martha Nussbaum Nineteen Eighty-Four: George Orwell and Our Future (Princeton University Press, 2005) and Nikita Khrushchev, with Sergei Khrushchev and William Taubman (Yale University Press, 2000).