HIB0397I The Soviet Union under Stalin, I

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2009
Extent and Intensity
2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Libor Svoboda, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Jiří Malíř, CSc.
Department of History – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Hana Ambrožová
Timetable
Thu 13:20–14:55 zrusena A22 stara
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 60 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/60, only registered: 0/60, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/60
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
Upon successful completion of the course, students wil be able to characterize the history of Russian and the Eastern Europe since Lenin’s death and Stalin’s ascension to leadership in the USSR in 1924, until his death in 1953.
Students will be acquainted with basic history of communism, Eastern Europe, and Russia under Stalin’s rule from early 1920s until early 1950s.
Syllabus
  • Russia 1917-1924; making of the USSR; Lenin’s death; Stalin, his youth and rise to power; industrialization; collectivization; Big Terror; Soviet foreign policy in 1920s and 1930s; the Third Internationale; personal cult; the Molotov-Ribbentrop treaty; the Second World War; Soviet Union as a superpower; Soviet Bloc; Cold War; Soviet Union in the last years of Stalin’s rule; Stalin’s death and legacy.
Literature
  • R. G. Pichoja. Sovětskij sojuz: istorija vlasti 1945 – 1991. Novosibirsk 2000
  • Sheila Fitzpatrick: Stalin's Peasants: Resistance and Survival in the Russian Village after Collectivization, New York and Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1994
  • Robert Conquest: The Great Terror. A Reassessment. Oxford University Press 1991.
  • Sheila Fitzpatrick (ed.): Stalinism: New Directions. London and New York Routledge, 2000
  • Sheila Fitzpatrick: Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s, New York and Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1999
  • HOLLOWAY, David. Stalin a bomba : Sovětský svaz a jaderná energie 1939-1956. Translated by Šimon Pellar. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 2008, 572 s. ISBN 9788020016423. info
  • BABEROWSKI, Jörg. Rudý teror : dějiny stalinismu. Translated by Jiří Pondělíček. 1. vyd. Praha: Brána, 2004, 221 s. ISBN 8072432168. info
  • MALIA, Martin E. Sovětská tragédie : dějiny socialismu v Rusku v letech 1917-1991. Translated by Pavel Vereš. Vyd. 1. Praha: Argo, 2004, 566 s. ISBN 8072035665. info
  • WEBER, Václav. Stalinovo imperium : Rusko 1924-1953. Vyd. 1. Praha: Triton, 2003, 167 s. ISBN 8072543911. info
  • TUCKER, Robert C. Stalin na vrcholu moci : revoluce shora 1928-41. Translated by Zdeněk Hron. 1. vyd. v čes. jazyce. Praha: BB art, 2000, 751 s. ISBN 8072571486. info
  • VEBER, Václav. Stalin : stručný životopis. Vyd. 1. Praha: Univerzita Karlova, 1996, 202 s. ISBN 8071841374. info
  • FAINSOD, Merle. Smolensk under soviet rule. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1958, x, 484. info
Teaching methods
lectures
Assessment methods
oral colloqium
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
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