This will be a case study for how European politics, economy and society are changing across the mid-19th Century. We will focus on 19th Century Russia to set the stage for arguably the two most significant events of the early 20th Century both World War I and the Russian Revolution.
Mir Iskustva, Мир иску́сства, translates as "World of Art" . I have taken the name for this assignment from the Russian magazine of the same name that represented the Russian art movement that revolutionized European art and embodied the larger revolutionary sentiment of the fin de siecle.
Mir Iskusstva Project Directions
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MacKenzie / Curren, A History of Russia, the Soviet Union, and Beyond, Ch. 29 Cultural Developments, 1855-1917
Russia 1800s Popular Divide Notes
John M. Thompson, Russia and the Soviet Union, Ch. 9 Reform, Reaction and Modernization 1855-1904