The main questions of the course are why in the 1870s young people went en masse to raise peasants to revolt and educate workers, and what came of it.

Historians Amiran Urushadze and Yulia Safronova discuss how the tsar-liberator is remembered — from the moment of regicide to the present.

As part of EUSP’s history podcasts, a new cycle dedicated to Alexander II has begun. The previous cycle was devoted to the topic of fornication in Russia. Those podcasts can be found here.