HIS 242
Key Terms to remember while reading the textbook and studying a unit's material

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The Key Terms will be part of the midterm and final exams in the course. You should study these terms using your textbook, but you are also encouraged to use any other sources, such as Wikipedia. A good answer to a test identification of a key term should include answers to these basic questions: who, what, where, when and why important. It is especially important to focus on why the key term is important. Check out some examples.

Unit 1 Introduction and Themes in Russian history

Unit 2 Reaction and Modernization under Alexander III and Nicholas II

Unit 3 A Silver Age of Russian Culture

Unit 4 Marxism

Unit 5 1905

Unit 6 World War I

Unit 7 1917 and Civil War

Unit 8 NEP and the 1920s

Unit 9 Stalinism in the 1930s

Unit 10 World War II

Unit 11 Cold War Abroad

Unit 12 Thaw at Home

Unit 13 Gorbachev

Unit 14 Putin-Medvedev

Unit 15 Whither Russia in the Twenty-First Century?

Unit 16 A New Russian Culture?