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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

Historiography of Soviet Type Societies: History and Anthropology

2024/2025
Academic Year
ENG
Instruction in English
3
ECTS credits
Delivered by:
Department of History
Type:
Compulsory course
When:
1 year, 2 module

Instructors

Platonova, Evgeniia

Platonova, Evgeniia

Starun, Maria

Starun, Maria

Course Syllabus

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Abstract

What are main approaches in history and anthropology of the Russia Empire and Soviet society? What are this field’s classic debates and new issues? How do they differ thematically and methodologically? This course offers a historiographic introduction to this field of study. The course focuses of key case studies that has defined Russian/Soviet studies as well as on its emerging research agenda.
Learning Objectives

Learning Objectives

  • To familiarize students with main events and phenomena of Soviet history
  • To develop understanding of historical processes and ways of their interpretation
  • To discuss main historiographical debates and approaches to Imperial/Soviet history
Expected Learning Outcomes

Expected Learning Outcomes

  • Knowing main classic and novel historiographic approaches
  • knowledge of how to analyze key features of text and narrative as historical sources, including the issues surrounding texts’ authorship and edition, and its status as original or copy.
Course Contents

Course Contents

  • Soviet national policy in interwar period
  • Soviet gender order
  • Materiality
  • Cold War Soviet
  • Ideology of Space/Scape of Ideology
  • The war and the post-war
  • Industrial regime
  • Soviet legal practice
Assessment Elements

Assessment Elements

  • non-blocking Final essay
    As a final assignment students must submit a review of a selected book or two (and more) articles related to the scope of the course but beyond the obligatory reading list. Suggested works for review will be provided by the teachers.
  • non-blocking Attendance and in-class discussion
    Students are expected to attend all seminars and take active part in the discussion and demonstrate knowledge of the content of lectures and readings.
  • non-blocking Questions for in-class discussion
    Questions for in-class discussion (30%) Students are expected to prepare questions for discussion (3-5) once during the course. Students are required to present the author of the paper and introduce his/her position in the field.
Interim Assessment

Interim Assessment

  • 2024/2025 2nd module
    0.3 * Attendance and in-class discussion + 0.4 * Final essay + 0.3 * Questions for in-class discussion
Bibliography

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

  • Suny, R. G. (1997). Chapter 11: The Russian Empire. In After Empire (978-0813329642) (pp. 142–154). Taylor & Francis Ltd.
  • The structure of Soviet history : essays and documents, , 2003

Recommended Additional Bibliography

  • The Cambridge history of Russia. Vol.3: The twentieth century, , 2006
  • The Soviet experiment : Russia, the USSR, and the successor states, Suny, R. G., 1998

Authors

  • LYUBAVINA SVETLANA VYACHESLAVOVNA
  • Starun Maria Igorevna
  • Platonova Evgeniia Sergeevna