Course descriptor Title of the course Historical Urban Studies Title of the Academic Programme BA in History Type of Course Elective Prerequisites The course is offered on a space-available basis ECTS workload 5 Total indicative study hours Directed Study Self-directed study Total 68 122 190 Course Overview This course examines urban history of socialist systems from a global and comparative perspective. The 20th century witnessed a burly socialist urban development internationally, being a century of various experiments in urban modernity. Some characteristics might be found in the Soviet project: since the beginning of Soviet epoch, a city became a space for constructing of an alternative Soviet (and socialist) modernity when numerous urban models were aimed to transform social structure by the power of built environment. . On the one hand, there was a sample of grandiose Soviet urbanization, while on the other hand during the entire Soviet period one can find numerous activities of local communities which illustrated the tensions between social and urban transformations from above and local initiatives. The USSR compelled the socialist satellites to accept its model of urban development as an integral part of industrialization. At the same time, socialist urban of patterns were variations of a global trends in thinking about a city and society (i.e. architectural modernism, company towns etc.) However, while being patterns of socialist urbanism and virtual identity, different cities within the Soviet Union and in the Eastern bloc were still about diversity and inequalities, influenced by a variety of social, cultural, technological and other factors. Intended Learning Outcomes (ILO) Indicative Course Content What were socialist cities and their diversity in the context of international urban planning? The course examines the development of Soviet urbanism, the post-world war urban planning in the Eastern bloc, socialist approaches to urban development in other socialist countries like China, Vietnam, African states and others. The course examines such questions as governmental politics, the city planning ideas and their circulation among politicians and designers, local urban communities through the XX century, industrialization and technology transfers, environmentalism, and the destinies of post-socialist cities. Teaching and Learning Methods The course consists of lectures (42 hours) and tutorials (42 hours). Indicative Assessment Methods and Strategy Assessment: written examination (50%) - exam; coursework (50%); Coursework: •A team project (30%) •review (30%) •Seminar participation mark (40%). Readings / Indicative Learning Resources Mandatory Lynne Attwood, Gender and housing in Soviet Russia: Private life in a public space. Manchester University Press, 2011. Chapter 1. New byt, new women, new forms of housing. pp.22-40. Kelly C. Socialist Churches: Heritage Preservation and “Cultic Buildings” in Leningrad, 1924–1940, Slavic Review, Vol. 71, No. 4 (WINTER 2012), pp. 792-823. Udovički-Selb D. Between Modernism and Socialist Realism: Soviet Architectural Culture under Stalin's Revolution from Above, 1928–1938, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Vol. 68, No. 4 (December 2009), pp. 467-495. Harald Bodenschatz and Thomas Flierl Controversial Urbanism During the First Years of the Stalin Dictatorship, In: Bodenschatz, Harald, Sassi, Piero, and Welch Guerra, Max. Bauwelt Fundamente : Urban-ism and Dictatorship : A European Perspective. Basel/Berlin/Boston, DE: Birkhäuser, 2015. pp.183-198. Flierl T. Ernst May’s Standardized Cities for Western Siberia, In: Bodenschatz, Harald, Sassi, Pie-ro, and Welch Guerra, Max. Urbanism and Dictatorship: A European Perspective. Basel/Berlin/Boston, DE: Birkhäuser, 2015. pp.199-217. Melnikova-Raich S. The Soviet Problem with Two "Unknowns": How an American Architect and a Soviet Negotiator Jump-Started the Industrialization of Russia, Part I: Albert Kahn, The Journal of the So-ciety for Industrial Archeology, Vol. 36, No. 2 (2010), pp.57-80. Barenberg, A. Gulag town, Company town: Forced Labor and Its Legacy in Vorkuta. New Haven and London, Yale University Press. 2014. Chapter 1. From the margins to the home front. Vorkuta as an Outspot. P.15-55. Stronski P. Tashkent: Forging a Soviet City, 1930–1966. Pittsburgh PA, US: University of Pitts-burgh Press, 2010. Chapter 3. Imagining a “Cultural” Tashkent. pp.46-71. Jenks A. A Metro on the Mount: The Underground as a Church of Soviet Civilization, Tech-nology and Cultue, Vol. 41, No. 4 (Oct., 2000), pp. 697-724. Zeisler-Vralsted, D. The Cultural and Hydrological Development of the Mississippi and Volga Riv-ers, IN Mauch, C. and Zeller, T. Rivers in history: perspectives on waterways in Europe and North Ameri-ca, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh, 2011. Filtzer D. The Hazards of Urban Life in Late Stalinist Russia. Health, hygiene, and living stand-ards,1943–1953. London, 2010. Chapter 1. The impossible task: keeping cities clean. pp.22-65. Chatterjee C.Everyday Life in Transnational Perspective Consumption and Consumerism, 1917– 1939, IN: Ransel, David L., and Cavender, Mary, eds. Everyday Life in Russia Past and Present. Bloom-ington, IN, US: Indiana University Press, 2015. p.368-289. Maddox, S. M. Saving Stalin's Imperial City : Historic Preservation in Leningrad, 1930–1950. Bloomington, IN, US: Indiana University Press, 2014. Chapter 2. “These monuments must be protected!” Leningrad imperial cityscape at War. p.44-67. Hass J. K. Norms and Survival in the Heat of War: Normative Versus Instrumental Rationalities and Survival Tactics in the Blockade of Leningrad, Sociological Forum, Vol. 26, No. 4 (DECEMBER 2011), pp. 921-949. Risch, William Jay. The Ukrainian West : Culture and the Fate of Empire in Soviet Lviv. Cam-bridge, US: Harvard University Press, 2011.CHAPTER 2. The Making of a Soviet Ukrainian City. pp.27-52. Demchenko I. Decentralized Past: Heritage Politics in Post-Stalin Central Asia, Future Anterior: Journal of Historic Preservation, History, Theory, and Criticism, Vol. 8, No. 1 (Summer 2011), pp. 65-80. Maddox, S. M. Saving Stalin's Imperial City: Historic Preservation in Leningrad, 1930–1950. Bloomington, IN, US: Indiana University Press, 2014. Chapter 6. p.170-194. Barenberg, A. Gulag town, Company town: Forced Labor and Its Legacy in Vorkuta. New Haven and London, Yale University Press. 2014. Chapter 3. In search of Normalcy. Vorkuta during postwar Sta-linism. pp.88-119. Siegelbaum, L.H. (2013) ‘Modernity Unbound: The New Soviet City of the Sixties’, in: Gorsuch, A.E. & Koenker, D.P. (eds) (2013) The Socialist Sixties: Crossing Borders in the Second World (Bloom-ington and Indianapolis, Indiana University Press). Mëhilli E. The Socialist Design Urban Dilemmas in Postwar Europe and the Soviet Union, Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History 13, 3 (Summer 2012): 635–665. Deborah A. Field Everyday Life and the Problem of Conceptualizing Public and Private during the Khrushchev Era, in: Everyday Life in Russia Past and Present. ed by Chatterjee, Choi, Ransel, David L., and Cavender, Mary. Bloomington, IN, US: Indiana University Press, 2015. P.163-181. Susan E. Reid Everyday Aesthetics in the Khrushchev--Era Standard Apartment, in: Chatterjee, Choi, Ransel, David L., and Cavender, Mary, eds. Everyday Life in Russia Past and Present. Bloomington, IN, US: Indiana University Press, 2015. pp.203-234. Josephson P. R. New Atlantis Revisited. Akademgorodok, the Siberian City of Science. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1997. Chapter 1. pp.1-42. Sergei I. Zhuk Fascist Music from the West: Anti-Rock Campaigns, Problems of National Identity, and Human Rights in the “Closed City” of Soviet Ukraine, 1975-84, In: Popular Music and Human Rights, Volumes 1-2 : (Two-volume set). Farnham, GB: Ashgate, 2011. p.147-159. Koenker, Diane P.. Club Red : Vacation Travel and the Soviet Dream. Ithaca, US: Cornell Universi-ty Press, 2013. Chapter3. The Proletarian Tourist in the 1930s Seeking the Good Life on the Road. pp.89-128. Risch, William Jay. The Ukrainian West : Culture and the Fate of Empire in Soviet Lviv. Cam-bridge, US: Harvard University Press, 2011.CHAPTER 4 The Ukrainian “Soviet Abroad” pp.82-115. Bolotova, A. (2011) ‘Loving and Conquering Nature: Shifting Perceptions of the Environment in the Industrialised Russian North’, Europe-Asia Studies, 64, 4. Ward, C J. Brezhnev's Folly : The Building of BAM and Late Soviet Socialism. Pittsburgh PA, US: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009. Pp.1-41 Pixová M. Alternative Culture In A Socialist City: Punkers And Long-Haired People In Prague In The 1980s’, Český lid, Vol. 100, No. 3 (2013), pp. 319-338. Claire Shaw “We Have No Need to Lock Ourselves Away”: Space, Marginality, and the Negotia-tion of Deaf Identity in Late Soviet Moscow, Slavic Review, Vol. 74, No. 1 (SPRING 2015), pp. 57-78 Griffiths M. Moscow after the Apocalypse, Slavic Review, Vol. 72, No. 3 (FALL 2013), pp. 481-504. Cybriwsky, Roman Adrian. Kyiv, Ukraine : The City of Domes and Demons from the Collapse of Socialism to the Mass Uprising of 2013-2014. Amsterdam, NL: Amsterdam University Press, 2014. Chap-ter 4. Soviet Ways, Post-Soviet Days. p.101-129. Optional Bodenschatz, Harald, Sassi, Piero, and Welch Guerra, Max. Urbanism and Dictatorship : A Europe-an Perspective. Basel/Berlin/Boston, DE: Birkhäuser, 2015. p.15-44. Barris R. Russian Constructivist Architecture as an Urban Carnival: The Creation and Reception of a Utopian Narrative, Utopian Studies, Vol. 10, No. 1 (1999), pp. 42-67. Milka Bliznakov, Soviet housing during the experimental years, 1918 to 1933, in: Russian housing in the modern age : design and social history. Edited by William Craft Brumfield and Blair A. Ruble. 1993 Меерович М.Г. Кладбище соцгородов: градостроительная политика в СССР 1928-1932 гг. М.: РОССПЭН. 2011. Paperny, V. Architecture in the Age of Stalin: Culture Two . New York, Cambridge University Press. 2002. Kotkin S. Magnetic Mountain. Stalinism as Civilization. University of California Press, 1995. Chapter 3. Idiocy of Urban Life. pp. 106- 147. Baron N. New Spatial Histories of Twentieth Century Russia and the Soviet Union: Surveying the Landscape, Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas, Neue Folge, Bd. 55, H. 3 (2007), pp. 374-400. Edele M. Strange Young Men in Stalin's Moscow: The Birth and Life of the Stiliagi, 1945-1953, Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas, Neue Folge, Bd. 50, H. 1 (2002), pp. 37-61. Bidlack, Richard, and Lomagin, Nikita. Annals of Communism : The Leningrad Blockade, 1941-1944 : A New Documentary History from the Soviet Archives. New Haven, US: Yale University Press, 2012. Chapter Struggle to Survive. P.262-329. ]Qualls, Karl D.. From Ruins to Reconstruction : Urban Identity in Soviet Sevastopol after World War II. Ithaca, US: Cornell University Press, 2009. Chapter 4. Agitation Rewriting the Urban Biography in Stone. p.124-156. A.B. The Stalingrad and Minsk Building Contest, Soviet Studies, Vol. 5, No. 1 (Jul., 1953), pp. 96-99. Scott W. Palmer How Memory Was Made: The Construction of the Memorial to the Heroes of the Battle of Stalingrad, The Russian Review, Vol. 68, No. 3 (Jul., 2009), pp. 373-407 Reid S. Makeshift Modernity DIY, Craft and the Virtuous Homemaker in New Soviet Housing of the 1960s, International Journal for History, Culture and Modernity, 2014. 2 (2). pp.87-124. Susan E. Reid, ‘The Khrushchev Kitchen: Domesticating the Scientific-Technological Revolution’, Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 40, No. 2, Domestic Dreamworlds: Notions of Home in Post-1945 Europe (Apr., 2005), pp. 289-316. Christine Varga-Harris , ‘Homemaking and the Aesthetic and Moral Perimeters of the Soviet Home during the Khrushchev Era’, Journal of Social History, Vol. 41, No. 3 (Spring, 2008), pp. 561-589. Steven E. Harris “I My for of the Know all the Neighbors”: Privacy in Separate Secrets of The Quest the Era Apartment, in: Borders of Socialism. Gordonsville, US: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. pp.171-190. Brown, K. Gridded Lives: Why Kazakhstan and Montana are Nearly the Same Place, The American Historical Review. 2001. Vol. 106. No. 1. pp. 17-48. Ira N. Gang and Robert C. Stuart Mobility Where Mobility Is Illegal: Internal Migration and City Growth in the Soviet Union, Journal of Population Economics, Vol. 12, No. 1, Special Issue on Illegal Mi-gration (Feb., 1999), pp. 117-134. Applebaum R. A Test of Friendship Soviet-Czechoslovak Tourism and the Prague Spring . In: Gor-such, Anne E., and Koenker, Diane P., eds. The Socialist Sixties : Crossing Borders in the Second World. Bloomington, IN, US: Indiana University Press, 2013. pp.213-232. Underhill J.A. Soviet New Towns, Planning and National Urban Policy: Shaping the Face of Soviet Cities, The Town Planning Review, Vol. 61, No. 3 (Jul., 1990), pp. 263-285. Włodek L. Identity Politics in Post-Soviet Reality Tajikistan's Case, Polish Sociological Review, No. 145 (2004), pp. 71-84. Forest B., Johnson J. Unraveling the Threads of History: Soviet-Era Monuments and Post-Soviet National Identity, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol. 92, No. 3 (Sep., 2002), pp.524-547. Course Instructor Senior lecturer Elena Kochetkova