RSn099 We and They: Czech–Russian Relations Yesterday and Today

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2024
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Ivo Pospíšil, DrSc. (lecturer)
prof. PhDr. Ivo Pospíšil, DrSc. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Ivo Pospíšil, DrSc.
Department of Slavonic Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: doc. PhDr. Jiří Gazda, CSc.
Supplier department: Department of Slavonic Studies – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
each even Monday 14:00–15:40 B2.22, except Mon 15. 4.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The aim of the course is to acquaint students with the main stages of development of the Czech–Russian social, political, ideological, cultural, art and mainly literary relations, especially in 19–21 centuries.
The course should make possible for students to deeper understand these relations as the controversial phenomena to which changes of both subjects, their ideological, political, as well as, aesthetic intentions are projected; to critically understand them as natural part of intercultural and interliterary European and world contacts; to be able to differentiate their certain stages and the driving force of their modifications.
Learning outcomes
After finishing the course, the student should be able to orient in the particular developmental stages of Czech – Russian relations; to know how to find the reasons of their shifts and peripeteias from the national revival adoration to critical reflection performed by K. Havlíček Borovský and T. G. Masaryk, and then to the conception of new Slavonic patriotism, controversial reception of the two Russian revolutions of 1917, the relation to avant-garde and Russian emigration up to the extreme situation in 1968 and 1989, or rather difficult search for new positions in these relations. He should be able to analyze these relations globally and in detail and to interpret them in the final paper.
Syllabus
  • 1. The Czech-Russian relations as a part of inter-Slavonic relations: states, the Cyrill and Methodius period.
  • 2. The Czech-Russian relations in Middle Ages, Renaissance and Baroque.
  • 3. New beginning in Neoclassicism, Enlightenment and Romanticism.
  • 4. The National Revival and the Czech-Russian relations: the key figures on both sides, problems of politics and ideology, Czech playing with “Russian card”.
  • 5. The Czech-Russian relations as part of modern Europe and the world interculturality: Havlíček’s and Masaryk’s critical reflection.
  • 6. Modernism and Avant-garde: Soviet literature and Russian emigration.
  • 7. The conception of new Slavonic patriotism in the context of the World War I, Russian revolutions, the World War II and the Cold War.
  • 8. The development after 1945 and 1948: the deformations and the positives.
  • 9. Czech-Russian Hassliebe until 1968 and after it.
  • 10. The development complexities after 1989 and the search of the new dominants in Czech–Russian relations.
Literature
    required literature
  • My a oni: ve středu i na okraji. Poznámky k česko-ruským literárním vztahům. In: Dialog kultur I. OFTIS, Ústí nad Orlicí 2002, s. 23-39.
  • Česko-ruské vztahy v 19. a 20. století. Praha 2011.
  • WOLLMAN, Frank. Slovesnost Slovanů. Edited by Ivo Pospíšil - Miloš Zelenka. 2. vyd., v Tribunu EU vyd. 1. Brno: Tribun EU, 2012, 474 s. ISBN 9788026302230. info
  • DOLANSKÝ, Julius. Mistři ruského realismu u nás. Praha: Svět sovětů, 1960. info
  • HERMANOVÁ, Eva. Čtvero setkání s ruským realismem : příspěvky k dějinám rusko-českých literárních vztahů. 1. vyd. Praha: Nakladatelství Československé akademie věd, 1958, 354 s. info
    recommended literature
  • Slavjanskij mir v glazach Rossii. Moskva 2011.
  • Srovnávací studie (Komparatistika, slavistika, rusistika a česko-slovenské souvislosti). UCM, Trnava 2008.
  • Češsko-russkije i slovacko-russkije literaturnyje otnošenija. Moskva 1968.
  • 1968 god. Pražskaja vesna. Istoričeskaja retrospektiva. Moskva 2010.
  • Rossija i Centraľnaja Jevropa s osobym učetom češsko-russkich literaturnych svjazej. In: Universalii russkoj literatury 2, sbornik statej, ed. A. A. Faustov. Nauka-Junipress, Voroněž 2010, s. 606-628. ISBN 978-5-4292-0001-9.
  • Příspěvky k dějinám česko-ruských kulturních styků I.-II. Praha 1965, 1969.
  • Slavjanskij mir v treťjem tysjačeletii. Moskva 2012.
  • Čechoslovacko-russkije literaturnyje svjazi v tipologičeskom osveščenii. Moskva 1971.
  • Východoslovanské literatury v českém prostředí do vzniku ČSR. Edited by Danuše Kšicová. Vyd. 1. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 1997, 210 s. ISBN 8021016582. info
  • Studie k dějinám a kultuře východních Slovanů. 20, K 1000. výročí christianizace Rusi (988). Praha: Karolinum, 1991. ISBN 80-7066-464-9. info
  • Malý slovník rusko-českých literárních vztahů : osobnosti ruské literatury v českém kontextu. Praha: Lidové nakladatelství, 1986. info
  • DOLANSKÝ, Julius. Ohlas dvou ruských básníků v Rukopisech Královédvorském a Zelenohorském. Praha: Universita Karlova, 1969. info
  • PAROLEK, Radegast. Vilém Mrštík a ruská literatura. Vydání 1. Praha: Universita Karlova, 1964, 183 stran. info
  • WOLLMAN, Frank. Slované : kulturní obraz slovanského světa. Praha: "Vesmír" - nakladatelská a vydavatelská společnost s r.o., 1928, 259 s. URL info
    not specified
  • Rovda, K. I.: Čechi i russkije v ich literaturnych vzaimosvjazjach. Leningrad 1968.
Teaching methods
Lecture, seminar, individual reading of comparative texts, discussions on select subjects, topical relations, translations, reception, comparative methods, working out the final project and its presentation and following discussion.
Assessment methods
Tests, presentation of the final project, discussions, oral exam.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2025.
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