Disc 1. A Russian past, the Putin future ; Ivan the Terrible's 500-year reign ; The Russian Orthodox Church ; Peter the Great and a European empire ; Russia's northern window on Europe ; Nobility, the Tsar, and the peasant. Disc 2. The authentic Russia: popular culture ; Catherine the Great and the enlightenment ; Alexander Pushkin's Russia ; Alexander II, nihilists, and assassins ; The age of realism in Russian art ; Russian fin de siècle and the Silver Age. Disc 3. Empire across two continents ; The rise and fall of the Romanovs ; Russian radicals, war, and revolution ; The October 1917 revolution ; Lenin and the Soviet cultural invasion ; The roaring twenties, Soviet style. Disc 4. The tyrant is a movie buff: Stalinism ; The soviet's great patriotic war ; With Khrushchev, the cultural thaw ; Soviet Byt: shared kitchen, stove, and bath ; Intelligentsia, dissidents and Samizdat ; Soviet chaos and Russian revenge.
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