HIB060bn Modern Russian History (1953-2024). From the Death of Stalin up till the End of Putin

Filozofická fakulta
jaro 2025
Rozsah
2/0/0. 4 kr. Ukončení: k.
Vyučováno kontaktně
Vyučující
prof. Andrey Zubov (přednášející)
Garance
doc. Mgr. Tomáš Malý, Ph.D.
Historický ústav – Filozofická fakulta
Kontaktní osoba: Mgr. Hana Ambrožová
Dodavatelské pracoviště: Historický ústav – Filozofická fakulta
Omezení zápisu do předmětu
Předmět je nabízen i studentům mimo mateřské obory.
Předmět si smí zapsat nejvýše 46 stud.
Momentální stav registrace a zápisu: zapsáno: 0/46, pouze zareg.: 0/46, pouze zareg. s předností (mateřské obory): 0/46
Mateřské obory/plány
předmět má 8 mateřských oborů, zobrazit
Cíle předmětu
The main task of the course is to examine common features and specificity of two periods of modern Russian history – late Soviet period (1953-1991) and a new Russian one (1992-2023). The course intends to observe this period of Russia in series of lectures in a sequence of main events in home and foreign politics, in society and culture.
I think that it is better not to divide Soviet and Post-Soviet periods as something principally different. On the contrary only if one studies this period as one consequent process, he can hope to understand the real essence of the today state of Putin. On the other hand some clear differences between these two periods show us better the inner unity of the Russian Soviet and Post-Soviet history.
When I speak about politics, I use the term “Soviet” to the realities took place before 1992, and “Russian” from 1992 up till now. When I speak on society and culture I prefer to use one term – “Russian”, i.e. “Russian society”, “Russian culture” taking into account neither ethnical nor linguistic, but civic sense of the term.
Výstupy z učení
Upon completion of the course, the student will be able to:
compare two periods of modern Russian history, describe common and different features; define the term "Soviet society"; describe the political and social developments in the period under study
Osnova
  • 1. The Thaw (Ottepel’). From the death of Stalin up till the consolidation of the Khrushchev’s autocracy: 1953-1956.
  • 2. The time of “Voluntarism” and anti-Stalinism: 1957-1964.
  • 3. The palace coup d’état of October 1964 and the first years of Brezhnev’s rule before the invasion to Czechoslovakia: 1964-1968.
  • 4. The ambivalence of the USSR in the years of “Brezhnev’s doctrine”: Politics in 1968-1982.
  • 5. The Stagnation (“Zastoj”) and Revival (Ozhivlenie) in the Russian society in 1968-1982. The Russians in the search of new horizons
  • . 6. The shift to a new society and politics. The false attempts to rebuild the Soviet life (“Perestroika”): 1982-1989.
  • 7. New Russia in the search of its future: 1990-1994. From the first competition parliamentary elections in March 1990 to “National Pact” in April 1994.
  • 8. Imitational Democracy and market economics of Yeltsin’s rule: 1994-1999.
  • 9. The consolidation of Putin’s autocracy: 2000-2008.
  • 10. Dictatorship and the nostalgia for the late Soviet Empire: 2008-2014.
  • 11. Putin’s Russia in the time aggression: 2014-2024.
  • 12. Continuity in the Soviet – New Russian politics and social life.
Výukové metody
Lectures
Metody hodnocení
For the evaluation of final results I plan to ask students to write a paper on a chosen topic.
Vyučovací jazyk
Angličtina
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Předmět je zařazen také v obdobích jaro 2024.