Russian History

2024/2025

Учебный год

ENG

Обучение ведется на английском языке

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Кредиты

Кто читает:

Международный институт экономики и финансов

Статус:

Курс обязательный

Когда читается:

1-й курс, 1, 2 семестр

Преподаватель

Царева Александра Петровна

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The course "History of Russia" aims to develop students' ideas and knowledge about the genesis and development of the Russian state and society. As part of the course, they will be able to both expand and systemise the knowledge gained at school and gain new facts and interpretations related to national history. A particulate focus is made on the history of foreign policy, connection between Russian domestic developments and international actions. The discipline involves the development of skills in working with academic literature and historical sources.

Learning Objectives

• to form the ability to comprehend processes, events and phenomena in Russia and the world in their dynamics and interrelation, guided by the principle of historicism;
• to form a set of knowledge about the main stages and experience of the formation of Russian statehood;
• to form ideas about the most important social, economic, cultural, ethno-confessional, etc. processes that took place on the territory of modern Russia;
• to form the primary skills of problem-based and contextual analysis of historical sources and research literature on the main periods and problems of Russian history;
• to form an idea of the role of Russia in world history and culture;
• to form a primary understanding of the principles and methods of broadcasting the results of one's own research in oral and written form.

Expected Learning Outcomes

• - demonstrates the ability to comprehend processes, events and phenomena in Russia and the world in their dynamics and interrelation, guided by the principle of historicism
• names, describes and analyzes the most important social, economic, cultural, ethno-confessional, etc. processes that took place in ancient times on the territory of modern Russia;
• names, describes and analyzes the most important social, economic, cultural, ethno-confessional, etc. processes that took place during the formation, formation and development of Russian statehood in the IX - first third of the XIII century.
• demonstrates a primary understanding of the principles and methods of broadcasting the results of one's own research in oral and written form
• demonstrates knowledge (names and explains) about the main stages and experience of the formation of Russian statehood;
• demonstrates the primary skills of problem-based and contextual analysis of historical sources and research literature on the main periods and problems of Russian history;
• names, describes and analyzes the most important social, economic, cultural, ethno-confessional, etc. processes that took place on the territory of modern Russia;
• demonstrates knowledge (names and explains) about the main stages and experience of the formation of Russian statehood
• demonstrates the ability to comprehend processes, events and phenomena in Russia and the world in their dynamics and interrelation, guided by the principle of historicism;
• demonstrates a primary understanding of the principles and methods of broadcasting the results of one's own research in oral and written form;
• demonstrates the primary skills of problem-based and contextual analysis of historical sources and research literature on the main periods and problems of Russian history
• describes, analyzes and explains the role of Russia in world history and culture;
• describes, analyzes and explains the role of Russia in world history and culture
• demonstrates the ability to comprehend processes, events and phenomena in Russia and the world in their dynamics and interrelation, guided by the principle of historicism
• demonstrates the primary skills of problem-based and contextual analysis of historical sources and research literature on main periods and problems of Russian history;
• demonstrates a primary understanding of the principles and methods of broadcasting the results of one's own research in oral, written form;
• demonstrates knowledge (names and explains) about main stages and experience of the formation of Russian statehood
• names, describes, analyzes the most important social, economic, cultural, ethno-confessional, etc. processes that took place on the territory of modern Russia
• describes, analyzes, explains the role of Russia in world history and culture
• demonstrates the ability to comprehend processes, events and phenomena in Russia and the world in their dynamics and interrelation guided by the principle of historicism
• demonstrates the ability to comprehend processes, events and phenomena in Russia and the world in their dynamics and interrelation, guided by the principle of historicism.
• names, describes and analyzes the most important social, economic, cultural, ethno-confessional, etc. processes that took place in ancient times on the territory of modern Russia.
• demonstrates knowledge (names and explains) about the main stages and experience of the formation of Russian statehood.
• demonstrates the primary skills of problem-based and contextual analysis of historical sources and research literature on the main periods and problems of Russian history.
• demonstrates a primary understanding of the principles and methods of broadcasting the results of one's own research in oral, written form.
• describes, analyzes, explains the role of Russia in world history and culture.

Course Contents

• General questions of the course.
• Peoples and states on the territory of modern Russia in ancient times. Russia in the IX — first third of the XIII century
• Russia in the 13th–15th centuries
• Russia in the 16th–17th centuries.
• Russia in 18th century.
• The Russian Empire in the 19th — early 20th century
• Russia and the USSR in the Soviet Era (1917-1991)
• Modern Russian Federation (1991-2022).

Assessment Elements

• Activity
• Exam
  In order to get a passing grade for the course, the student must sit the exam (all parts of the exam if the exam is divided into parts). The exam consists of two parts: test and writing assignment with essay type questions.
• Work with SmartLMS
• Project
  The purpose of the project is to study: 1) individual plots, themes, periods, events, phenomena, etc. in the history of Russia; 2) industry and profile-oriented history in the general context of national history. In an interdisciplinary project, a student/group of students represents and/or visualizes the results of studying historical sources and research literature on a particular topic/problem of the history of Russia.

Interim Assessment

• 2024/2025 2nd semester
  0.15 * Activity + 0.15 * Activity + 0.25 * Exam + 0.2 * Project + 0.25 * Work with SmartLMS

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• Reading primary sources : the interpretation of texts from nineteenth- and twentieth-century history, , 2009

Authors

• TSAREVA ALEKSANDRA PETROVNA