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Lecturer(s)
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Course content
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1) Limits of reforms, limits of autocracy: Russia in 1860?s 2) Russian society before the revolution: Elites 3) Russian society before the revolution: Peasants 4) Women and State in prerevolutionary Russia 5) Russia as a multi-national Empire 6) Revolution as a moment of truth: 1904-1906 7) Constitutional Experiment, 1906-1914 8) War and Revolution, 1914-1917 9) The formative years of new regime and civilization: Civil War, 1917-1921 10) Stalinism in Politics and Economy: First Five Year Plan and Great Terror, 1928-1940 11) Stalinism as a Way of Life: Everyday Life in Russia, 1928-1940 12) Triumph and Tragedy: Russia in the Second World War (1941-1945) and the late Stalinism (1945-1953) 13) Russia after Stalin
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming)
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Learning outcomes
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In the first part, the course is focused on the evolution of Russian society in the second hal of 19th century until the revolution in 1917. The main objective is to explain the social and cultural changes which the Russian society undewent. The political, social and cultural history is analyzed, with regard to the changing structure of Russian society: the transition from estate society to the civic society before 1917. In the second part, the course is focused on the evolution of the Russian society after the revolution, with the objective to analyze the political mechanisms of the Soviet state and to explain the social, cultural and political changes in the society during the ?building of stalinism?. To put the stalinism into the broader context of totalitarianism is the other important part of the interpretation.
Student is able to define and interprete the elemental changes in the Russian society in the followed period and put the Russia's evolution into the European context.
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Prerequisites
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unspecified
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Written examination
For each lecture, students will read texts which will be then discussed. At the end of the semester, students will pass the written exam.
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Recommended literature
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ENGEL, B. A. Women in Russia, 1700-2000. New York, 2004.
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FIGES, O. Natasha's Dance: a cultural history of Russia. Cambridge: Metropolitan Books, 2002.
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FITZPATRICK, Sheila. Stalin's peasants: resistance and survival in the Russian village after collectivization.. New York, 1994.
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FREEZE, G. L. Russia: a history. New York - Oxford, 2002.
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GOLDMAN, W. Z. Terror and Democracy in the Age of Stalin. The Social Dynamics of Repression. Cambridge University Press, 2007.
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PIPES, R. Russia under the old regime. London: Penguine Books, 1974.
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RIASANOVSKY, N. A History of Russia. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
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Suny, Ronald Grigor . The Cambridge history of Russia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. ISBN 0-521-81227-5.
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Westwood, J. N. Endurance and endeavour : Russian history 1812-2001. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. ISBN 0-19-924617-3.
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