Historiography of Russian Empire and Soviet society

2021/2022

Academic Year

ENG

Instruction in English

3

ECTS credits

Delivered at:

Department of History

Course type:

Elective course

When:

1 year, 3, 4 module

Instructor

Reznik, Alexander

Course Syllabus

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

• To know the main approaches in history and anthropology of the Russia Empire and Soviet society

Expected Learning Outcomes

• 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

• Late Russian Empire to Early Soviet Project
• Soviet national policy in interwar period
• Soviet gender order
• Ideology of Space/Scape of Ideology
• Materiality
• Cold War Soviet
• Socialist globalization
• Nature in the Russian Empire/Soviet Union

Assessment Elements

• Final essay
• Attendance and participation

Interim Assessment

• 2021/2022 4th module
  0.3 * Attendance and participation + 0.7 * Final essay

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• 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

• REZNIK ALEKSANDR VALEREVICH
• KOCHETKOVA ELENA ALEKSEEVNA