The geographic basis of Russian history; Early peoples of Russia
The Kievan state (to 1054)
The decline of Kiev (1054-1240); appanage Russia
The Mongol conquest; the Lithuanian state; Appanage Russian society
The rise of Moscow; The Russian church
The era of Ivan IV (1533-1584)
The time of t troubles (1598-1613)
The first Romanovs (1613-1682)
The era of Catherine II (1762-1796)
The reign of Paul (1796-1801)
The era of Nicholas I (1825-1855)
The era of Alexander II (1855-1881)
Russia under Alexander III (1881-1894)
The era of Nicholas II (to 1906)
The era of Nicholas II (1906-1914)
World War I (to the start of 1917)
The 1917 revolutions: March and November
The new regime (November 1917-July 1918)
The Civil War era (1918-1921)
The Stalin revolution (1929-1939)
Foreign policy in the 1930s
The late Stalinist period (1945-1953)
The Khrushchev years (1953-1964)
The Brezhnev era (1964-1982)
1982-1991: from stagnation to revolution.