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Department of History
Department of History
Contacts

Address:
190068 Saint Petersburg
123 Griboedov channel, Room 123

Phone:+7 (812)786-92-49 

Postal address: 
190068 Saint Petersburg
123 Griboedov channel

Administration
Adrian A. Selin
Department Head – Adrian A. Selin
Evgeniy Anisimov
Academic Supervisor – Evgeniy Anisimov
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
Shared Images: A History of American Art in the Soviet Union during the Cold War

Chunikhin K.

De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2025.

Article
The Russian Civil War after 100 Years: Within and Beyond the Historiographical Front Lines

Alexander V. Reznik.

Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History. 2024. Vol. 25. No. 3. P. 644-658.

Book chapter
Individualism and Psychology in the Auto/Biography of Lev Trotsky, 1900–20s

Alexander V. Reznik.

In bk.: Revolutionary Biographies in the 19th and 20th Centuries: Imperial – Inter/national – Decolonial. Göttingen: V&R Unipress, 2024. P. 17-34.

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
Contacts

Address:
190068 Saint Petersburg
123 Griboedov channel, Room 123

Phone:+7 (812)786-92-49 

Postal address: 
190068 Saint Petersburg
123 Griboedov channel

Administration
Adrian A. Selin
Department Head – Adrian A. Selin
Evgeniy Anisimov
Academic Supervisor – Evgeniy Anisimov
Department of History

Writing Power

2024/2025
Academic Year
ENG
Instruction in English
5
ECTS credits
Delivered by:
Department of History
Type:
Minor
When:

Instructors

Рахманова Лидия Яковлевна

Рахманова Лидия Яковлевна

Ryzhkov, Aleksei

Ryzhkov, Aleksei

Ssorin-Chaikov, Nikolai

Ssorin-Chaikov, Nikolai

Course Syllabus

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Abstract

This final paper of the social anthropology minor links two themes of this course. The first is political anthropology that looks at hierarchies and relations of power. The second is the linguistic turn (‘writing culture’) of the 1980s that marked a radical shift from ‘classical’ to ‘contemporary’ anthropology. It did so by looking not just the anthropology of home, rather than far away places, but also at the social and political relations between anthropologists and the people, communities and relationships that they studied. This put forward the relations of power between the observer and the observed, and also paved the way to the current prominence of such theorists as Foucault. This course takes this ‘home’ also by looking at case studies from Russia/Eastern Europe.
Learning Objectives

Learning Objectives

  • This is a concluding course in the social anthropology minor. Its goal is to situate anthropological research in a broader landscape of social theory and to provide a comprehensive overlook of key anthropological theories.
Expected Learning Outcomes

Expected Learning Outcomes

  • A student knows the history of the discipline and subfields
  • Able to think critically and interpret the experience (personal and of other persons), relate to professional and social activities
  • Able to solve professional problems based on synthesis and analysis
Course Contents

Course Contents

  • The field, the site and the scale.
  • Anthropology since the 1980s.
  • Schmitt and Agamben
  • Faces of surveillance (anthropology of anthropology)
  • Distributed personhood
Assessment Elements

Assessment Elements

  • non-blocking attendance
  • non-blocking project essay
Interim Assessment

Interim Assessment

  • 2024/2025 4th module
    0.5 * attendance + 0.5 * project essay
Bibliography

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

  • Ingold, T. (2018). Anthropology : Why It Matters. Medford: Polity. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1801558
  • Mihail Petrovich Ostromenskij. (2016). K. Schmitt’s Theory of Partisan: Socio - Political Eventuality of Partisan. Vestnik MGIMO-Universiteta, (5), 86. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsdoj&AN=edsdoj.5889aed8a4a14949b9e07a50f0195069
  • Sherry B. Ortner. (2008). Anthropology and Social Theory : Culture, Power, and the Acting Subject. Duke University Press Books.

Recommended Additional Bibliography

  • An inquiry into modes of existence : an anthropology of the moderns, Latour, B., 2013

Authors

  • Ssorin-Chaikov Nikolai Vladimirovich
  • LYUBAVINA SVETLANA VYACHESLAVOVNA