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Book
Remembering the Neoliberal Turn: Economic Change and Collective Memory in Eastern Europe after 1989

Gökarıksel S., Gontarska O., Hilmar T. et al.

L.: Routledge, 2023.

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
The Stolbovo Treaty and Tracing the Border in Ingria in 1617–1618

Adrian Selin.

In bk.: Sweden, Russia, and the 1617 Peace of Stolbovo. Vol. 14. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2024. P. 99-118.

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

Anti-Colonialism, Dependency, and Uneven Development

2024/2025
Academic Year
ENG
Instruction in English
3
ECTS credits
Delivered by:
Department of History
Type:
Elective course
When:
3 year, 3, 4 module

Instructor

Course Syllabus

Abstract

While historians, economists, political scientists, and sociologists still tend to disagree on the starting point of capitalism, they all agree on one thing – not everybody reached capitalism at the same time. This has generally been identified as one of the major causes of global developmental differences and inequalities. Furthermore, structural pressures inherent in capitalism’s expansionist tendencies have resulted in countries of the capitalist “center” – where the system developed first – having an adverse effect on the development of the “periphery” – where capitalism arrived later, causing structural dependence on the center. Colonialism has only been the most overt expression of this tendency. This course will examine how capitalism developed unevenly over the centuries and what political consequences this has had – both historically, and in the contemporary world. As the course will show, the current global geopolitical order, its ongoing changes, and the position of the Russian Federation within it cannot be understood without a grasp of basic problems of dependency and uneven development.