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Department
Educational programmes

Address:
190068 Saint Petersburg
123 Griboedov channel, Room 123

Phone:+7 (812)786-92-49

Postal address:
190068 Saint Petersburg
123 Griboedov channel

Administration

Department Head – Adrian A. Selin

Academic Supervisor – Evgeniy Anisimov

Public lectures by the faculty of the department of history

Public lectures

Research

About the Department

The Department of History was created in 2012. The overarching goal of the department is systematic development of the field of global, comparative, and transnational history as a potent tool of overcoming the limitations of national history canon, fostering interdisciplinary dialogue in the field of social sciences and humanities, and brining new public relevance to historical knowledge. The department mission includes the development of new type of historical undergraduate and graduate education in Russia and pioneering new research fields in Russian historiography in dialogue with the global historical profession.

Publications

Book

Gleaning for Communism: The Soviet Socialist Household in Theory and Practice
In press

Cherkaev X.

Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2023.

Article

Changing Menstrual Habits in Late 20th- and Early 21st-Century Russia

Vasilyev P., Konovalova Alexandra.

Open Library of Humanities. 2023. Vol. 9. No. 1. P. 1-20.

Book chapter

Creating the Soviet Arctic, 1917–1991

Bruno A., Kalemeneva E.

In bk.: The Cambridge History of the Polar Regions. Cambridge University Press, 2023. Ch. 19. P. 462-486.

Working paper

The Image of the Past in Ciro Spontone’s ‘Historia Della Transilvania’

Khvalkov E., Levin F., Кузнецова А. Д.

Working Papers of Humanities. WP. Издательский дом НИУ ВШЭ, 2021

All publications

Delivered by:: Department of History

Type:: Elective course

When:: 1 year, 4 module

Instructor

Loskutova, Marina

Full Syllabus

Abstract

On-line course in a form of blended. This is a survey of modern history from a global perspective. It begins early in the twentieth century, as older ways of doing things and habits of thought give way. What follows is an era of cataclysmic struggles over what ideas and institutions will take their place. The course concludes in the present day, as communities everywhere are transitioning into a new era of world history. Again we work hard to grasp what is happening and ask: Why? Again we are drawn to pivotal choices made at key moments by individuals and communities.

Learning Objectives

Students will develop a basic understanding of the principal events and processes in world economic, political and social history of the 20th century

Expected Learning Outcomes

understanding of the principal events and processes in world economic
understanding of the political and social history of the 20th century

Course Contents

World War I in Europe and beyond
New orders emerge: 1917-1930
The crisis of the world: 1930-1940
World War II and aftermath: 1940- 1950
The return of wartime (1950-1960)
Decay and renaissance (1968-1991)
The next phase (1991-2013)
Colloquia

Assessment Elements

colloqiua
Seminars consist of group discussions or the whole class discussions in which students are to answer and discuss Lecturer’s questions, terms and notions.
exam

Interim Assessment

Interim assessment (4 module)
0.4 * colloqiua + 0.6 * exam

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

Gilbert, M. (2014). History of the Twentieth Century : Concise Edition. [Place of publication not identified]: RosettaBooks. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1437718

Recommended Additional Bibliography

Lukacs, J. (2013). A Short History of the Twentieth Century. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=575609

The Modern World, Part Two: Global History since 1910