Thank you professor Kenez for this excellent course! I enjoyed it immensely and learned a great deal.

Nice review of Russian History over the past century. I really enjoyed the course. Thanks so much!

The topic was very interesting, and I was very fond of Professor Kenez and his presentation style.

Thank you, professor, for your deep understanding of Russian history and Russian soul.

Great course!!!! Thank you very much prof. Peter kenez. I've learned a lot!!!!!!

Está increíble. Gran profesor, gran clase. Thank you very much for this.

I had the feeling of great impartiality in this course.

Wonderful course. Very well structured and dynamic!

Very clear and in-depth discussion of events.

Excellent teacher and course!

Great course. Well Done!

Excellent Teacher!!!!

I really appreciated Prof. Kenez's knowledge and passion of the topics covered, as well as he style of communication. Great for an introductory course, for someone with no previous knowledge on Russian history. I would recommend taking this course, very interesting. However, a 3 week course may not be long enough to cover 100 years of Russian history. I found the quizzes to be extremely easy (the quiz questions are pretty much all previously asked during the lectures), and the transcripts of the lesson are way off.

Very interesting information, unfortunately had to drop it while attempting to balance high school material. The professor had some instances where it was extremely difficult to understand him, and the transcript at times was incomprehensible (which, I assume, is a result of poor transcription). 100% would complete this course if I had the time to.

As an American, I learned that there has been misunderstanding about the Russians in my country. They have a different way of thinking than we do and some of the things they said have been misconstrued. They have had difficult times and are not the monsters we have been taught they were.

A great introduction to Russian history.

Although Professor Kenez did a great job preparing the course materials, I cannot recommend this course. Why? Professor has too obvious admiration of russia, and although it would be fine in the past, today russia has shown it's true face of a monster. Thus, talking about some kind of sympathy towards russians is impossible when they are killing thousands of civilians, raping women and children and pillaging cities in Ukraine just as I write these words. The course should be reviewed and in many aspects fixed and changed. The most obvious point here is words about the civil war in Ukraine. Just pure nonsense. Ukraine has been fighting russia since 2014. Instead of admitting this, professor just tries to avoid this topic and then speaks about empathy towards russians.

This course is an excellent overview of Russian History. It will definitely help you grasp the most basic bits but you should keep in mind that there will be bias, propaganda, and gatekeeping. So my advice for anyone taking this course is to be critical of everything and stop being intellectually lazy. Radicalize yourself.

The first 90% of the course is really interesting and helps to understand some things. However, the last part of the course about putin was shocking for me. The lecturer never calls the russian invasion in 2014 an annexation. For him it's a civil war... And Holodomor never happened... it was just a famine that affected everyone... While it's true that famine was everywhere, Ukraine was affected the most.

I think he failed to do deep research on the most recent affairs and made his conclusions from the russian newspapers.

Oh dear! I have really struggled with this course. I was very keen to learn about Russian History sparked by documentaries and and reading bits here and there. However, I just could not follow the lecturer and his way of explaining things. I retried a few times but i just got frustrated. Disappointed as I was keen to do this course but I’m pulling out.

I only got six minutes in to the literal first video when the professor began extolling "the greatness of European civilization." That was after completely missing the point of the oft-quoted phrase "Those who do not study history are doomed to repeat this." I don't need this kind of energy in my life.

i thought this was going to be a course which deeply goes into the russian history and how everything took place rather it was a course discussing theories of what happened. I am at beginners level and i wanted a course with more depth in history

I would like to thanks Professor Kenez for this amazing introduction history. My story is interesting, as my partner is Russian but I worked training Ukrainian army against corruption many times in Kiev. While I have always been aware of the political differences and tension, I also developped friendships with both Ukrainians and Russians. In Western Europe, where I live, people don't know nor understand Russia and this is, in my view, a great mistake. The war in Ukraine could propobably have been avoided if the West had tried to continue a true dialogue with Russia. I really appreciated Professor Kenez empathy (sometimes he was very emotional in the videos) for the Russian people, who have and continue to suffer tremendously. thank you so much and greeting from Brussels!

I have learned many new things and I really liked the subject.

To follow this course you need some background information, such as what Stalinism is or who Marx is or Bolsjeviks are. I had some information learned at high school in the Netherlands, so i could follow it.

I advise to give a bit more attention to the cold war.I've learned other perspectives now, but for me I couldn't follow the origin and the development of it. It looked now if it only ended because of the major financial investments in military, but there were also other negotations I guess?

But I really liked the course and I'm curious to learn more about this country. I even bought a book:

frank westerman - engineers of the soul . You would like it (about the role of authors in the 20th century)