HUM S52 - US and Russia Relations

Course Description

The United States and Russia have never had direct conflicts over territory or gone to war with each other. Nonetheless, their relationship has been adversarial, if not hostile, since before the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. Joseph S. Harrington, M.A., will lead discussion of the past century of U.S.-Russian relations, considering why severe crises never led to a complete break in relations, and why hopeful episodes never eliminated underlying tensions.