History

Course summary

Tsarist and Communist Russia, 1855-1964: a breadth study of Russia’s transformation from a backward autocracy into a Communist totalitarian dictatorship that was ultimately able to defeat Nazi Germany and threaten the USA in the Cold War. Wars and Welfare: Britain in transition, 1906-1957: a depth study of a dramatic period in which Britain became a full democracy, was transformed by two world wars, suffered a harrowing economic depression, pioneered a welfare state, and became a nuclear power. Witch hunts in Early Modern Europe: students will research independently the persecution of ‘witches’ in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.