FF:AREA_15 Russian political thought - Course Information
AREA_15 Russian political and social thought and literature
Faculty of ArtsAutumn 2018
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/1/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
- Teacher(s)
- Mgr. Josef Šaur, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Josef Šaur, Ph.D. (seminar tutor) - Guaranteed by
- prof. PhDr. Ivo Pospíšil, DrSc.
Department of Slavonic Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Josef Šaur, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Slavonic Studies – Faculty of Arts - Timetable
- Wed 10:00–11:40 B2.34
- 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 40 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/40, only registered: 0/40, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/40 - fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Balkan Languages and Literatures (programme FF, B-FI) (2)
- Balkan Languages and Literatures (programme FF, B-HS)
- Balkan Languages and Literatures (programme FF, N-FI)
- Bulgarian Language and Literature (programme FF, B-FI) (2)
- Bulgarian Language and Literature (programme FF, B-HS)
- Bulgarian Language and Literature (programme FF, N-FI) (2)
- Bulgarian Language and Literature (programme FF, N-HS)
- Philological Area Studies (programme FF, B-FI) (2)
- Philological Area Studies (programme FF, B-HS)
- Philological Area Studies (programme FF, N-FI) (2)
- Philological Area Studies (programme FF, N-HS)
- Croatian Language and Literature (programme FF, B-FI) (2)
- Croatian Language and Literature (programme FF, B-HS)
- Croatian Language and Literature (programme FF, N-FI) (2)
- Croatian Language and Literature (programme FF, N-HS)
- Literature Comparatistics (programme FF, N-FI) (2)
- Macedonian Language and Literature (programme FF, B-FI) (2)
- Macedonian Language and Literature (programme FF, B-HS)
- Macedonian Language and Literature (programme FF, N-FI) (2)
- Macedonian Language and Literature (programme FF, N-HS)
- Polish Language and Literature (programme FF, B-FI) (2)
- Polish Language and Literature (programme FF, B-HS)
- Polish Language and Literature (programme FF, N-FI) (2)
- Polish Language and Literature (programme FF, N-HS)
- Polish with orientation on Commercial Practice, Services and Travel (programme FF, B-FI)
- Russian-language Translation (programme FF, N-HS)
- Russian-language Translation (programme FF, N-PT) (2)
- Russian Language and Literature (programme FF, B-FI) (2)
- Russian Language and Literature (programme FF, B-HS)
- Russian Language and Literature (programme FF, B-TV)
- Russian Language and Literature (programme FF, N-FI) (2)
- Russian Language and Literature (programme FF, N-HS)
- Russian with orientation on Commercial Practice, Services and Travel (programme FF, B-FI)
- Slavonic Studies (programme FF, N-FI) (2)
- Slavonic Studies (programme FF, N-HS)
- Slovak Language and Literature (programme FF, B-FI) (2)
- Slovak Language and Literature (programme FF, B-HS)
- Slovak Language and Literature (programme FF, N-FI) (2)
- Slovak Language and Literature (programme FF, N-HS)
- Slovenian Language and Literature (programme FF, B-FI) (2)
- Slovenian Language and Literature (programme FF, B-HS)
- Slovenian Language and Literature (programme FF, N-FI) (2)
- Slovenian Language and Literature (programme FF, N-HS)
- Serbian Language and Literature (programme FF, B-FI) (2)
- Serbian Language and Literature (programme FF, B-HS)
- Serbian Language and Literature (programme FF, N-FI) (2)
- Serbian Language and Literature (programme FF, N-HS)
- Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Russian Language and Literature (programme FF, N-SS) (2)
- Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Russian Language and Literature (programme FF, N-TV)
- Ukrainian Language and Literature (programme FF, B-FI) (2)
- Ukrainian Language and Literature (programme FF, B-HS)
- Ukrainian Language and Literature (programme FF, N-FI) (2)
- Ukrainian Language and Literature (programme FF, N-HS)
- Course objectives
- At the end of the course students will be able to characterize and define the main currents in the Russian political and social thinking. Students will be able to determine their mindset and appoint their main leaders. Emphasis will be placed on the clasp of Russian political and social thought and Russian literature. The main part of the course will focus on the period of "long" 19th century
- Syllabus
- 1) Literature and its specific position in the Russian environment 2) Creators and consumers of literature - nobility, intelligentsia, raznochintsy 3) Russian political and social thought and literature of the 18th century (Posoškov, Golicyn, Tatiščev, Novikov, Fonvizin, Voroncov, Desnickij, Ščerbatov, Radiščev) 4) The Westernisers–Slavophile debate and Russian thought and culture in the 19th century (Arzamas, Westernisers, Slavophiles, Pan-Slavism, Danilevskij, Lamanskij) 5) Conservative and traditionalist currents in Russian thought of the 19th century 6) Radical and revolutionary currents of Russian thought of the 19th century (Decembrist revolt, revolutionary democrats, Petrashevsky Circle, nihilism, populist movement, Russian socialism) 7) Russian liberalism and its literary dimension (Annenkov, Botkin, Turgenev, constitutionalism, Zemstvo, Vekhi) 8) Pochvennichestvo, Tolstoyan movement, „bogoiskatelstvo“, God-Building, Eurasianism 9) Lenin 10) Selected fragments of Russian political and social thought of the 20th century (dissent, literature and specifics of Russian political opposition)
- Literature
- Walicki, Andrzej. Zarys myśli rosyjskiej. Od oświecenia do renesansu religijno-filozoficznego. Kraków, 2002.
- Očerki russkoj kultury XIX veka. T. 4. Obščestvennaja mysl. Moskva, 2003.
- Utechin, S. V. Russian Political Thought. A Concise History. New York - London, 1963.
- Offord, Derek - Leatherbarrow, William (ed.). A History of Russian Thought. Cambridge, 2010.
- VYDRA, Zbyněk. Život za cara? : krajní pravice v předrevolučním Rusku. Červený Kostelec: Pavel Mervart, 2010, 552 s. ISBN 9788087378083. info
- GKANTZIOS DRÁPELOVÁ, Pavla. Kulturní, duchovní etnické kořeny Ruska : portréty. Červený Kostelec: Pavel Mervart, 2009, 276 s. ISBN 9788086818436. info
- VORÁČEK, Emil. Eurasijství v ruském politickém myšlení : osudy jednoho z porevolučních ideových směrů ruské meziválečné emigrace. Praha: SET OUT, 2004, 350 s. ISBN 8086277348. info
- PIPES, Richard and Stanislav PAVLÍČEK. Rusko za starého režimu. Vyd. 1. Praha: Argo, 2004, 404 s. ISBN 8072035592. info
- VLČEK, Radomír. Ruský panslavismus - realita a fikce. Praha, 2002. ISBN 80-7286-040-2. info
- ŠVANKMAJER, Milan. Dějiny Ruska. 3. dopl. a přeprac. vyd. Praha: Lidové noviny, 1995, 558 s. ISBN 80-7106-183-2. info
- WALICKI, Andrzej. A history of Russian thought : from the enlightenment to marxism. Translated by Hilda Andrews-Rusiecka. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1979, xvii, 456. ISBN 0804710260. info
- Teaching methods
- lectures, reading, class discussion
- Assessment methods
- handing a paper, written colloquium (10 questions)
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
- Enrolment Statistics (recent)
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