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Lecturer(s)
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Course content
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1. Introduction. The legacy of Stalinism: Russian society in 1953 2. Khrushchev period (1953-1964) 3. Culture and society (1953-1964) 4. Brezhnev period (1964-1982) 5. Culture and society (1964-1982) 6. The Road to Perestroika - Gorbachev Era, I (1982-1986) 7. From reconstruction to collapse - Gorbachev era, II (1987-1991) 8. Bankrupt superpower. Russia in the Cold War (1953-1991) 9. Democracy without success? Yeltsin era (1991-1999) 10. Putin and his Russia (2000-2020) 11. Return to prominence? Russian foreign policy under Yeltsin and Putin. 12. Post-Soviet culture and society.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming)
- Contact teaching
- 26 hours per semester
- Preparation for a credit (assessment)
- 32 hours per semester
- Independent critical reading
- 45 hours per semester
- Home preparation for classes
- 45 hours per semester
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Learning outcomes
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The course focuses on the development of Russian society from the death of J. V. Stalin (1953) to the collapse of the USSR (1991) and the post-Soviet era (post-1991), the form of which was fundamentally determined by President Boris Yeltsin's transformation policy (1991-1999) and the attempts for the restoration of Russia's superpower status under President Vladimir Putin (2000-2008, 2012 - present). The main goal is to explain the social, cultural, and political changes that Russian society underwent during the dismantling of Stalinism (especially in 1956-1964), the crisis of the Soviet system (the 70s and 80s), and after the collapse of the USSR. Lectures are focused on domestic and foreign policy issues, economic and social change, and cultural development.
Students will be able to distinguish different models of everyday life of individual social and professional groups, interpret basic changes in the structure of Russian society, and explain the basic trends in the development of Russian society in the period under review.
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Prerequisites
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Ability to think critically and independently.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Didactic test
The course is completed by credit. The condition for obtaining the credit is successful completion of the credit test (min. 60%). In the case of an extraordinary situation, the lessons are made online through the Microsoft Teams. Requirements on the students remain the same.
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Recommended literature
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Andrej B. Zubov a kol. Dějiny Ruska 20. století. 2 díl. 1939-2007. Praha, 2015.
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Haslam, Jonathan. Russia's Cold War : from the October Revolution to the fall of the wall. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0-300-15997-4.
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KOTKIN, S. Armaggedon averted. The Soviet Collapse 1970-2000. Oxford, 2008.
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Laqueur, Walter. Putin a putinismus. Rusko a perspektivy jeho soužití se Západem. Praha: Prostor, 2016.
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M. Malia. Sovětská tragédie - dějiny socialismu v Rusku 1917 - 1991. Praha, 2004.
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POLITKOVSKAJA, A. Ruský deník. Brno, 2007.
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Sakwa, Richard. Russian politics and society. London: Routledge, 2002. ISBN 0-415-22753-4.
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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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Taubman, William. Gorbačov. Život a doba. Praha. 2022.
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Taubman, William. Chruščov : člověk a jeho doba. Praha: BB art, 2005. ISBN 80-7341-625-5.
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VEBER, V. Komunistický experiment v Rusku aneb Malé dějiny SSSR 1917 - 1991. Praha: Set out, 2001.
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Zbyněk Vydra a kol. Dějiny Ruska. Praha. 2022.
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ZUBOK, Vladislav M. A failed empire : the Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev. Chapell Hill, 2009.
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