Политическая история России и зарубежных стран

Бакалавриат 2021/2022

Статус: Курс обязательный (Политология и мировая политика)

Направление: 41.03.04. Политология

Кто читает: Департамент истории

Где читается: Санкт-Петербургская школа социальных наук

Когда читается: 1-й курс, 1-4 модуль

Формат изучения: без онлайн-курса

Охват аудитории: для своего кампуса

Преподаватели: Левин Феликс Евгеньевич, Старун Мария Игоревна

Язык: английский

Кредиты: 10

Контактные часы: 140

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Abstract

This is a general course introducing fundamental political processes in the world and in Russia from the early modern time to 1991. The course will outline historical contexts of such issues as formation of modern state and governmental practices; emergence of nation-states; main political ideologies and political parties; social and political revolutions; mass politics and new forms of political movements. The course is aimed at developing comparative thinking and deepening the understanding of any political phenomenon in its historical dimension.

Learning Objectives

To familiarize students with main events and phenomena of political history of Russian and foreign countries in the 16-20th centuries
To familiarize students with main concepts of political history
To develop students' comparative thinking

Expected Learning Outcomes

The student can communicate information and ideas in a style that is completely appropriate to discussions of scholarly literature
The student can comprehend primary sources
The student can comprehend primary sources effectively
The student can discuss scholarly issues in groups and present the results of these discussions; can solve scholarly issue in collaboration with groupmates.
The student can identify main thesis and issues raised in scholarly literature
The student consistently uses terminology of political history
The student consistently uses terminology of political history, knows main facts of political history of Russia and foreign countries (16th-20th centuries
The student consistently uses terminology of political history, knows main facts of political history of Russia and foreign countries (16th-20th centuries)

Course Contents

Introduction: What is political history?
Approaching early modern Europe: main historical landmarks
Early Modern European state building
The Russian Empire in the making, XVI–XVII centuries
European politics in the XVIII century: Ancien regime and Enlightenment absolutisms
American War of Independence and the French Revolution
European wars and revolutions in XIX century
Age of nationalism: the issue of the emergence of the nation states
The politics of the early modern colonial empires
European Imperialism and colonial rule in the XIX century
Industrial revolution in Europe
The Russian Empire in the XIX century: power and reforms
Civil War in the USA and Reconstruction
Modernization of East Asia in the nineteenth century
The making of modern political ideologies: Liberalism and Conservatism
The making of modern political ideologies: Socialism and Anarchism
Politics in the First World War
The Russian Empire in the revolutions, 1905–1921
The Soviet political system
Restructuring the world order after the First World War
Interregnum: Liberal democracies in crisis
Stalinism: totalitarian regime in the USSR
Totalitarian regimes in Italy and Germany
The Spanish Civil War
World politics in the Second World War
The Cold War, 1946–1961
The Cold War, 1962–1991
Communist polities in global history
Democracy and the post-WW2 political regimes in the West
Political development of China in the XX century
Decolonization in Asia. Resistance, revolutions, wars.
The “Global Sixties”: new political movements across the world
The making of neoliberal state.
The anti-communist revolutions of 1989–1991
The political crisis and the dissolution of the USSR

Assessment Elements

Seminar discussion
Group presentation
Each group has to consider liberation of serfs; zemstvo reform (including counter-reform); court reform (including counter-reform); military reform (including counter-reform) and nationalities policy during the reign of Alexander II and Alexander III from the perspective of homogenization and differentiation. You have to think how each reform or political measure, on the other hand, turned diverse population of the Russian Empire into citizens and how, on the other hand, it still contributed to their differentiation. Your presentation has to provide arguments in favour of both homogenization and differentiation which must be based on solid evidence — derived from scholarly literature and primary sources. At the end of the presentation each group has to come up with a conclusion whether the examined reform/political measure contributed to democratization of the landscape of the Russian Empire. The presentation has to include authentic photographs/paintings which emerged during the second half of the 19th century. The presentation has to include bibliography. The presentation should last 7-8 minutes. Each group has to participate in the final discussion.
Preliminary assessment
Preliminary assessment consists of a written assignment which includes 2 questions based on the issues discussed during the seminars and lectures
Debates
Each subgroup has to prove a particular viewpoint concerning the development of PRC in the 20th century. Be careful each subgroup has to provide only argument for a particular viewpoint, not against it. Viewpoint 1 Chinese regime represented socialism with Chinese characteristics in maoist and postmaoist periods. Viewpoint 2 Chinese regime was more to do with nationalism than with socialism during maoist and postmaoist periods. Viewpoint 3 Chinese regime turned into a form of capitalist regime in postmaoist period and it had such tendencies even in maoist period. The presentation should last 10-12 minutes. Each group can use additional material while finding arguments for a particular viewpoint. Each group has to prepare a list of questions for other groups and to participate in the discussion actively.
Exam test
The exam will be held in the written format. The final exam is a test in LMS (lms.hse.ru) covering the topics and questions discussed in seminars and lectures. Students have to log in to their personal LMS accounts 5 minutes prior to the exam, and open the page of the discipline “Political history of Russia and Foreign countries”. Students’ computers should meet the following requirements: stable access to Internet, Google Chrome, Opera or Safari, access to LMS. In order to take the exam, students need login and password to their personal LMS account. They have to log in according to the schedule of the exam. During the exam it is forbidden to plagiarize, (copy material, communicate with the groupmates, etc.) and to open any new tabs other than LMS test. The student can be offline only for a minute. If the student is offline for more than a minute, he/she will not be able to continue the exam. Students who fail the exam will have to retake it in the same format. If student’s cumulative grade for seminar discussions, group presentation, debates and preliminary assessment is higher, or equal to 8, she/he is exempt from the final exam, and her/his resulted grade is considered the final one.

Interim Assessment

2021/2022 4th module
0.3 * Seminar discussion + 0.3 * Exam test + 0.1 * Group presentation + 0.1 * Debates + 0.2 * Preliminary assessment

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Recommended Additional Bibliography

Allen, R. C. (2009). The Industrial Revolution in Miniature: The Spinning Jenny in Britain, France, and India. The Journal of Economic History, (04), 901. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsrep&AN=edsrep.a.cup.jechis.v69y2009i04p901.927.00
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LEVIN FELIKS EVGENEVICH

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