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Course info
UHV / MMHR
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Course description
Department/Unit / Abbreviation
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UHV
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MMHR
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Academic Year
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2024/2025
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Academic Year
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2024/2025
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Title
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Modern History of Russia
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Form of course completion
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Examination
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Form of course completion
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Examination
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Accredited / Credits
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Yes,
4
Cred.
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Type of completion
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Combined
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Type of completion
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Combined
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Time requirements
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Lecture
2
[HRS/WEEK]
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Course credit prior to examination
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No
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Course credit prior to examination
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No
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Automatic acceptance of credit before examination
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No
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Included in study average
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YES
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Language of instruction
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English
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Occ/max
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Automatic acceptance of credit before examination
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No
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Summer semester
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0 / 0
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0 / 0
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0 / 20
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Included in study average
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YES
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Winter semester
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0 / 0
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0 / 0
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0 / 20
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Repeated registration
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NO
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Repeated registration
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NO
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Timetable
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Yes
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Semester taught
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Summer semester
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Semester taught
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Summer semester
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Minimum (B + C) students
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not determined
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Optional course |
Yes
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Optional course
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Yes
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Language of instruction
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English
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Internship duration
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0
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No. of hours of on-premise lessons |
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Evaluation scale |
A|B|C|D|E|F |
Periodicity |
každý rok
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Periodicita upřesnění |
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Fundamental theoretical course |
No
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Fundamental course |
No
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Fundamental theoretical course |
No
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Evaluation scale |
A|B|C|D|E|F |
Substituted course
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UHV/EMHR
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Preclusive courses
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N/A
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Prerequisite courses
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N/A
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Informally recommended courses
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N/A
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Courses depending on this Course
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N/A
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Histogram of students' grades over the years:
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Course objectives:
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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.
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Requirements on student
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For each lecture, students will read texts which will be then discussed. At the end of the semester, students will pass the written exam.
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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Content
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1) Introduction. Russian Empire in the mid-19th century.
2) Autocracy and modernisation. Russia and the Grea Reforms of the 1860s.
3) Russian society before the revolution: Elites between conservatism and liberalism.
4) Russian society before the revolution: Lower classes and socialist utopia.
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 the new regime and civilisation: 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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Activities
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Fields of study
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Guarantors and lecturers
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Literature
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Recommended:
RIASANOVSKY, N. A History of Russia. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
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Recommended:
Westwood, J. N. Endurance and endeavour : Russian history 1812-2001. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. ISBN 0-19-924617-3.
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Recommended:
FIGES, O. Natasha's Dance: a cultural history of Russia. Cambridge: Metropolitan Books, 2002.
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Recommended:
FREEZE, G. L. Russia: a history. New York - Oxford, 2002.
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Recommended:
PIPES, R. Russia under the old regime. London: Penguine Books, 1974.
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Recommended:
FITZPATRICK, Sheila. Stalin's peasants: resistance and survival in the Russian village after collectivization.. New York, 1994.
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Recommended:
GOLDMAN, W. Z. Terror and Democracy in the Age of Stalin. The Social Dynamics of Repression. Cambridge University Press, 2007.
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Recommended:
Suny, Ronald Grigor . The Cambridge history of Russia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. ISBN 0-521-81227-5.
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Recommended:
ENGEL, B. A. Women in Russia, 1700-2000. New York, 2004.
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Prerequisites - other information about course preconditions |
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Competences acquired |
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. |
Teaching methods |
- Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing)
- Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming)
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Assessment methods |
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