Great

I loved this course as my goal was to learn why this demented country of Russia was pursuing war with Ukraine and I believe that I now have the answer. Our professor was not the easiest teacher to learn from - his accent made his words hard to follow at times and the written notes, which should have been an easier route to learning, were often incorrectly transcribed. It was also apparent that Professor Kenez had a huge degree of sympathy for Russia and its citizens - perhaps bordering at times to a degree of bias towards Russia and even now Putin! Overall, Russia has a HUGE history and it would be impossible to learn every action, person and nuance. So the brief synopsis that was this course, was quite sufficient to learn the basics and more. And it certainly sparked my hunger for more history!

The professor is very knowledgeable, and the selection of events is relevant and consistent. Sometimes the course lacks a bit of objectivity, and there are too many true/false questions in the tests about things that are not that black and white.

I did enjoy the videos, and the stop questions in between are good to check comprehension of the most important parts. I think the discussion prompts should be mandatory, because if everyone participates in that, students will get more and faster feedback, and it is a valuable part of understanding the course.

I was always interested in Russian history and culture but I never had the opportunity to really dig into it. When I saw the course, I enrolled immediately and I am glad that I did so. Although the point of view was a little "american", it still was fascinating and objective. It really gave me the knowledge I expected and motivated me to learn more about the subjects taught and make my own opinions about every incident mentioned. Thank you prof. Kenez!

Very elaborative presentation of Russian history by Prof. Peter Kenez. But, very limited insight is given on Soviet economic progress, scientific advances or its foreign relations during the tenure of different Soviet premiers. The causes and subsequent repercussions of Soviet's Afgan war are not discussed.

Good overview, especially over more recent Russian history. I found it interesting, learned things and especially enjoyed working on an essay at the end. I would have liked the lectures to be a bit more concise, and sometimes the quiz questions seemed a bit arbitrary to me.

Rather good, it will clarify you in detail enough what happened in the last century in Russia.

An interesting short course on Russian History, fills in some of the gaps in my knowledge.

Fairly basic and not too challenging but appreciate overview and lecturer.

The course speaker is very knowledgeable but his speech too monotone.

Russian policy is being assessed from an American point of view

nice

I would have given 5 stars with more detail and depth. I think the professor was very knowledgeable and good at explaining the connections, but I felt the course was too short.

I often could not hear what the Professor said in the lecture.

Disappointed about this one. trying to condense this vast history clearly damaged the quality of the course. it mostly presents very basic points without trying to explain or analysing them. the result is a boring, unmemorable heap of unconnected information.

We have talked enough about these terrorists. Stop giving them a platform. Stop it already! And I recommend that the professor find another hobby!