Master
2021/2022
Historiography of Russian Empire and Soviet society
Category 'Best Course for Career Development'
Category 'Best Course for Broadening Horizons and Diversity of Knowledge and Skills'
Type:
Compulsory course (Muslim Worlds in Russia (History and Culture))
Area of studies:
History
Delivered by:
Department of History
Where:
Faculty of Humanities
When:
1 year, 3, 4 module
Mode of studies:
offline
Open to:
students of all HSE University campuses
Master’s programme:
Мусульманские миры в России (История и культура)
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
3
Contact hours:
30
Course Syllabus
Abstract
What are main approaches in history and anthropology of the Russia Empire and Soviet society? What are this field’s classic debates and new issues? How do they differ thematically and methodologically? This course offers a historiographic introduction to this field of study. The course focuses of key case studies that has defined Russian/Soviet studies as well as on its emerging research agenda.
Learning Objectives
- To know the main approaches in history and anthropology of the Russia Empire and Soviet society
Expected Learning Outcomes
- knowledge of how to analyze key features of text and narrative as historical sources, including the issues surrounding texts’ authorship and edition, and its status as original or copy.
Course Contents
- Late Russian Empire to Early Soviet Project
- Soviet national policy in interwar period
- Soviet gender order
- Ideology of Space/Scape of Ideology
- Materiality
- Cold War Soviet
- Socialist globalization
- Nature in the Russian Empire/Soviet Union
