Studying for the midterm, the pace of summer classes is absurd. Annoying enough, I thought with the limited amount of hours (2/dayx5/weekx4) would lead to us to jumping right in and covering really intensely the revolution. But, the professor lets us know every ten minutes that he attended Cambridge, is incredibly long-winded, actually uses penultimate and antepenultimate...ugh, and spent the first week going through an overview of all of Russian history.
Now, the funny part, was I thought there was a method to his madness, I thought there would be tendencies of an inevitability in Russia's movement to Communism. But, besides that the nobles were used to complete autocratic control before hand in their autocracy, especially with Peter the Great, there really wasn't. I'd never realized what a highjack the Bolshevik revolution was.
And so, I've always found it funny as we go through the different history levels of our education, how you realize the incredibly shallow versions of history you get as you move up can sometimes be be so limited to the point of being false. Stupid childhood myths told as important descriptive facts. Now, granted, the impression of the Soviet Union and the Oct. Revolution I'd gotten was usually framed in U.S. history, centered around World War I. So I don't know, it's just funny to me how off it was.
Interesting class.