Master
2023/2024
Historiography of Soviet Type Societies: History and Anthropology
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, 2 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:
24
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 familiarize students with main events and phenomena of Soviet history
- To develop understanding of historical processes and ways of their interpretation
- To discuss main historiographical debates and approaches to Imperial/Soviet history
Expected Learning Outcomes
- Knowing main classic and novel historiographic approaches
- 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
- Soviet national policy in interwar period
- Soviet gender order
- Materiality
- Cold War Soviet
- Ideology of Space/Scape of Ideology
- The war and the post-war
- Industrial regime
- Soviet legal practice
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- Suny, R. G. (1997). Chapter 11: The Russian Empire. In After Empire (978-0813329642) (pp. 142–154). Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- The structure of Soviet history : essays and documents, , 2003
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- The Cambridge history of Russia. Vol.3: The twentieth century, , 2006
- The Soviet experiment : Russia, the USSR, and the successor states, Suny, R. G., 1998