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Seminar in Russian History

Course code

AIG6313.HT

old course code

Course title in Estonian

Vene ajaloo seminar

Course title in English

Seminar in Russian History

ECTS credits

6.0

Assessment form

Examination

lecturer of 2023/2024 Spring semester

Karsten Brüggemann (language of instruction:English)

lecturer of 2024/2025 Autumn semester

Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.

Course aims

Lectures and seminars are meant to focus on the most important sources, processes and people in Russian history. On of the key aspects discussed during the course are Russian-Baltic entanglements

Brief description of the course

In the seven lectures the teacher gives a broad overview of particular periods in Russian history using a wide range of written and audiovisual sources. The seminars are meant to focus, with the help of scholarly texts, on certain developments that have shaped the course of Russian history in general and Russian-Baltic entanglements in particular. Thus, the course focuses on the ancient world of Kievan Rus, its Hanseatic dimension, the rise of Moscow, the years of Ivan IV and the Livonian wars, the process of „Europeanization“ under Peter I, the story of the Petersburg Empire and the Baltic provinces, the Russian revolution (also in Estonia and Latvia), Stalinism, “Mature Socialism” (also in the Baltic SSRs), the years of Perestroika and the road to Putinism in the 1990s.

Learning outcomes in the course

Upon completing the course the student:
- is able to discuss the major sources, processes and persons that shaped Russian history;
- manages to distinguish facts from myths, especially concerning the Soviet past;
- has an understanding of the relationship between the state and the non-Russian peoples of the various forms of empire;
- is able to formulate her/his views concerning Russian history orally and in written form.

Teacher

Karsten Brüggemann

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