Российские исследования (на английском языке) (стр. 3 )

Soviet experiment and sovietization paradigm Revolution and the emergence of the “Soviet” (one lecture and one seminar)

Readings:

Bushkovitch: 293-333

CHR III: 5-64 (Ronald Suny. “Reading Russia and the Soviet Union in the twentieth century: how the ‘West’ wrote its history of the USSR”)

Seminar: World War II and the Great Patriotic War. Types of memory and representations. Films, placards and museums.

Visit to the Museum of the Siege of Leningrad should be made in advance to the seminar.

Readings:

Nataliya Danilova. The Politics of War Commemoration in the UK and Russia. Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Introduction and Pp. 146-207

Post-war USSR and late socialism (one lecture and one seminar)

Readings:

Stephen Kotkin. Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse, 1970–2000. Oxford, 2001. P. 31-57 (Ch. 2 “Reviving the dream”)

Victoria Donovan  “Going Backwards, we stride forwards”: The regeneration of the tradition of kraevedenie in museums of North West Russia after Stalin, in: Forum for Anthropology and Culture. 2011, 7. P. 211-230

Seminar: Every-day life: communal space

Virtual tour to kommunalka: http://kommunalka. colgate. edu/

Readings:

Katerina Gerasimova, “Public Privacy in the Soviet Communal Apartment,” in Socialist Spaces: Sites of Everyday Life in the Eastern Bloc, Susan Reid and David Crowley, eds. (Berg, 2002), 207-231.

Round-table: the legacies of the pre-Soviet and Soviet past

You will have to prepare your written assignments for this round-table and be able to to make oral presentations and discuss.

Ethnicity and Nationalism. Nationality question and nationalities policies. (two lectures and two seminars)

5.1 Terms “nation” and “ethnicity”. Approaches to research. Ethnic diversity in Russia and “Russian national identity”. Empire vs. nation (one lecture and one seminar)

Readings:

CHR II: 27-44; 45-63 (Theodore R. Weeks. “Managing empire: tsarist nationalities policy”; Mark Bassin “Geographies of imperial identity”)

Seminar: Russian conquista. Mapping ethnic diversity

Readings:

Valerie Kivelson. Cartographies of Tsardom: The Land and Its Meanings in Seventeenth-century Russia. 2006 (Ch. 7)

Yuri Slezkine. Naturalists Versus Nations: Eighteenth-Century Russian Scholars Confront Ethnic Diversity// Representations. 1994. Vol. 47. P. 170-195

5.2 National politics in the USSR (one lecture and one seminar)

Seminar: Theory of affirmative action empire and its critics

Readings:

Yuri Slezkine. The USSR as a Communal Apartment, or How a Socialist State Promoted Ethnic Paticularism // Slavic Review. 1994. Vol. 53. No. 2. P. 414-452

Terry Martin. An Affirmative Action Empire. The Soviet Union as the Highest Form of Imperialism, in: Ronald Suny, Terry Martin (eds.) A State of Nations: Empire and Nation-Making in the Age of Lenin and Stalin. 2001. P. 67-90

Francine Hirsch. Empire of Nations: Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union. 2005. P. 187-227 (“Transforming “The Peoples of the USSR”: Ethnographic Exhibits and the Evolutionary Timeline)

Religion and belief. Secularization and de-secularization

Readings:

CHR II: 284-305 (Gregory l. Freeze. “Russian Orthodoxy: Church, people and politics in Imperial Russia”)

Robert Crews. Empire and the Confessional State: Islam and Religious Politics in Nineteenth-Century Russia. American Historical Review, 2003, 108, no. 1. P. 50-83

6.1         Religious diversity in Russia and religious politics (one lecture and one seminar)

Seminar: Religion and gender

Readings:

Valerie Kivelson. Through the prism of witchcraft: Gender and Social Change in 17th cent. Muscovy, Barbara Evans Clements, Barbara Alpern Engel, Christine D. Worobec (eds.) Russia's Women: Accommodation, Resistance, Transformation (google. books)

Jeanne Kormina, Sergey Shtyrkov. St Xenia as a Patron of Female Social Suffering: An Essay on Anthropological Hagiology, J. Zigon (ed.) Multiple Moralities and Religions in Post-Soviet Russia, 2011

6.2  Theories of secularization and de-secularization (one lecture and one seminar)

Seminar: Modern belief and “irregular religiosity”

Readings:

Jeanne Kormina. Avtobusniki: Russian Orthodox Pilgrims’ Longing for Authenticity, Chris Hann, Hermann Goltz (eds.) Eastern Christians in Anthropological Perspective, 2010

Sonja Luehrmann. Secularism Soviet Style: Teaching Atheism and Religion in a Volga Republic, 2011)

Visit to the Chapel of St. Xenia at Smolenskoe cemetery

Popular culture and cultural production Folklore, folklore studies and romantic nationalism (one lecture and one seminar)

Readings:

Regina F. Bendix, Galit Hasan-Rokem (eds.) A Companion to Folklore. Blackwell Publishing. 2012. Ch. 22 “Russia”

Seminar: Usable Folklore

Readings:

Nathaniel Knight. Ethnicity, Nationality and the Masses: Narodnost' and Modernity in Imperial Russia, in: Russian Modernity, eds. David Hoffmann and Yanni Kotsonis, MacMillan Press. 2000. P. 41-64

Laura Olson. Performing Russia. Folk Revival and Russian Identity. 2004. P. 16-67

Jenks A. From Periphery to Center: Palekh and Indigenization in the Russian Heartland, in: Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History 2002, 3, 3, 427-458

Frank Miller. Folklore for Stalin: Russian Folklore and Pseudofolklore of the Stalin Era. Armonk; London, 1990

Education, literacy and literature for the people (one lecture and one seminar)

Readings:

Jeffrey Brooks. When Russia Learned to Read: Literacy and Popular Literature, 1861 - 1917. Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 1985. P. 3-34 (Ch. I. “Uses of Literacy”); 59-108 (Ch. 3 “The Literature of the Lubok”)

Sheila Fitzpatrick. Education and social mobility in the Soviet Union, 1921-1934. Cambridge university press, 2002 (Part II. P. 113-211).

Seminar:

Faith Wigzell. Reading Russian Fortunes: Print Culture, Gender and Divination in Russia from 1765. Cambridge University Press, 1998. P.109-126 (Ch. 5 “Women, Men and Domestic Fortune-telling”)

Visual culture and visualization of Russianess (one lecture and one seminar)

Readings:

Vishlenkova E. A. Strategies of the Visual Construction of Russianness and Non-Russianness, 1800-1830, Branch M. (ed.) Defining Self. Essays on emergent identities in Russia Seventeenth to Nineteenth Century. Helsinki, 2009. P.173-192

Seminar: Soviet animation

Presentation of the individual projects

5. Перечень учебно-методического обеспечения для самостоятельной работы обучающихся по дисциплине (модулю)

5.1.  Тематика эссе:

1.        Historical monuments: struggles and debates.

2.        Ethnographic museums and representation of human diversity.

3.        Picturing the Past: analysis of the film.

4.        Modern religiosity: practices and discourses.

5.        Debates upon national politics: the theory of the USSR as affirmative action empire and its critics.

6.        Visualization of Russianess.

7.        Local memory and rituals of commemoration.

8.        Historical memory: the concept and approaches.

9.        The uses of the folklore in today mass-media and every-day life.

5.2. Примерные темы круглых столов.

1.        The legacies of pre-Soviet and Soviet past.

2.        Emergence of Rus: the legends and their roles in historical memory.

3.        Types of memory and representations. Films, placards and museums.

5.3 Распределение часов внеаудиторной самостоятельной работы студента при изучении дисциплины

№ п/п	Наименование темы или раздела дисциплины (модуля)	Трудоемкость, час.	Список рекомендуемой литературы	Вопросы для самопроверки
Основная	Дополнительная
1	Introductions and Expectations	8	№3: xv-xxiv; №№12, 25	What are the main complexities in defining “Russia” as the category of analysis? What are the main factors affecting the ways Russia was imagined in the Middle Ages?
2	Concise History and Past in the Present	12	№3:1-78, №4 II: 9-26; №№24, 27, 33, 34	№4, 7	What are the crucial moments in Russian history which are still debated and claimed today? What does the concept of “collective memory” mean? And what are the main categories used in the analysis of historical memory? Into what periods the history of Russia is usually subdivided? What are the main complexities related to this subdivision?
3	Soviet experiment and sovietization paradigm	10	№4 III: 5-64; №№ 6, 19, 7	№1	What are the main approaches in research of the Soviet Union? How did the main trends in Sovietology change During last 50 years? What are general perspectives of research? How the Soviet every-day life is approached in modern scholarship?
4	Round-table: the legacies of pre-Soviet and Soviet past	6	№№3,4	What historical subjects, events and figures became the principal points of reference in today mass-media and every-day communication? How the Past is used in the Present? And how does the Present affect the Past?
5	Ethnicity and Nationalism. Nationality question and nationalities policies	8	№ 4 II: 27-44; 45-63; №№28, 29, 21	№ 2,3	What ethnic groups, languages and culture were present on the map of Russia in different times? What are the limits of “mapping method”? How the difference between empires and nations is explained within modern scholarship? What the theory of the “affirmative action empire” imply? Who is its author? And what are the main arguments of its critics?
6	Religion and belief. Secularization and de-secularization	8	№4 II: 284-305, №№5, 14, 17	№ 5	What religious confessions and groups were known in Russia in different times? How was the religion institutionalized in Russian Empire, Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia? How did the relationship between the state and religion change? What was the difference in the role, status and position of various confessions in Russia? What does the theory of secularization imply? What do the terms “secularization” and “de-secularization” mean? What is the specifics of modern religious belief in Russia?
7	Popular culture and cultural production	16	№№1, 15, 26, 11, 2, 8	№6	What was a general context of Folklore Studies development? What does the concept of “invented traditions” mean? How the culture is related to power relationship and nation-building? What are the main areas of cultural production in Russia? What the principle changes in Russian visual arts happened from the end of the 18th century?
8	Presentation of the individual projects	12	№№ 3,4	How is the ethnicity and nation question claimed in modern Russian society? How is the religion enacted in modern debates? How is the Past represented today in the fiction and non-fiction? How is the art used in political claims?
Итого	80

6. Фонд оценочных средств для проведения промежуточной аттестации обучающихся по дисциплине (модулю), использование БРС

6.1 Перечень вопросов к экзамену: