History

2019/2020

Учебный год

ENG

Обучение ведется на английском языке

3

Кредиты

Кто читает:

Департамент больших данных и информационного поиска

Статус:

Курс обязательный

Когда читается:

1-й курс, 1, 2 модуль

Преподаватель

Морозов Олег Владимирович

Course Syllabus

Abstract

In the past three decades, historians have become intensely interested in the power of memories, i.e., how memory and forgetting shape both the individual and collective relationship to the past. This course explores diverse sites and practices used by American, European, and Russian societies to commemorate their past from 1914 to the present. Beginning with a discussion on collective memory and a brief foray into the theory of the politics of memory, we will look at the pivotal events of American, European, and Russian twenty-century histories (e.g., World War I, World War II, the Holocaust, the Great Famine, the Great Purge) and analyze how individuals and public institutions created new visions of the events and (mis)used those visions for their benefit. In the process, students will see why history, particularly that one of the twentieth century, is repeatedly rewritten, and why, eventually, it has so many conflicting interpretations. In the end, they will manage to see a huge gap between public or state-affiliated interpretations and those of professional historians. Indeed, while discussing the ways of remembering and forgetting, we cannot ignore the factual basis of historical events. Hence, students should be prepared to work with historical material and be aware of key figures, dates, and concepts given in each topic. The course draws on a range of primary and secondary sources, e.g., memoirs, speeches, films, scholarly writings, the Internet and social media. The course includes fifteen lectures and seminars, two tests, and one exam.

Learning Objectives

• Students will gain an insight into how understanding and representation of the past have been constructed and reshaped over time through history and memory.
• Students will explore the traumatic events of the twentieth century, e.g., World War I, World War II, the Holocaust, The Great Purge.
• Students will see why history, particularly that one of the twentieth century, is repeatedly rewritten, and why, eventually, it has so many conflicting interpretations.
• Students will learn to see a huge gap between public or state-affiliated interpretations and those of professional historians.

Expected Learning Outcomes

• Students will learn to work with historical material.
• Students will gain knowledge of key figures, dates, and concepts given in each topic.
• Students develop the ability to present clear and coherent arguments about the material discussed in class.
• Students will learn to use professionally the language of memory studies.
• Students develop the ability to present clear and coherent arguments about the material discussed in seminars.
• Students will learn to use professionally such terms as the politics of memory, collective memory, trauma, survivor, victim, witnessing, etc.

Course Contents

• History & Memory
  Memory studies in the twenty-first century
• The Politics of Memory in Europe: World War I and the Holocaust
  Remembering World War I. Fascism and nazism compared. The Holocaust: Survivors and their testimonies. The politics of memory in Western Europe: Germany and France. The politics of memory in Eastern Europe: Poland, Hungary, and the Baltic States. Challenges to European historical remembrance in the twenty-first century
• The Politics of Memory in Russia: Stalinism and World War II
  Stalin and stalinism in the 1920s and 1930s. The Famine of 1932-33: Ukraine and Russia. The Great Purge of 1937-38. Remembering the Great Purge. The Gulag and Its voices. 1945: War and victory in the Russian politics of memory
• History and Memory in the USA: The Civil War
  Coping with white suprematism: The Civil War in American historical memory. The "Black Lives Matter" movement and the future of the Confederate monuments.
• Decolonization and memory
  European empires and colonial regimes in the 16th-20th centuries. Direct and indirect rule. Slavery and its role in shaping maritime empires. British policy in India in the 19th century and the Sepoy mutiny. Belgium colonialism and the Rubber Terror. Decolonization and nationalism in South Africa. Decolonizing memory about colonialism. The "Rhodes Must Fall" and "Black Lives Matter" movements. Modern decolonization theories.

Assessment Elements

• Class discussions
• Test 1
• Test 2
• Oral Exam
• Intermediate assessment

Interim Assessment

• Interim assessment (2 module)
  A final assessment combines an intermediate and a midterm assessments, according to the formulae: G (final) = G (intermediate) * 60% + G (exam) * 40%. The intermediate assessment is based on an average grade for seminars, G (seminars), and two grades for tests, G (test-1) and G (test-2): G (intermediate) = G (seminars) * 70% + G (test-1) * 15% + G (test-2) * 15%. All grades are rounded to the nearest ten.

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• Alexis Papazian. (2018). Suny, Ronald G.: “They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else”. A History of the Armenian Genocide, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2015. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.CD28A9C1
• Applebaum, A. (2010). Gulag : A History. New York: Anchor. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=720010
• Assmann, A. (2006). History, Memory, and the Genre of Testimony. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.3E7E9235
• Assmann, A. (2008). Transformations between History and Memory. Social Research, 75(1), 49. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=f5h&AN=32455564
• Blight, D. W. (2001). Race and Reunion : The Civil War in American Memory. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=281960
• Catherine Portuges. (2018). Kékesi, Zoltán. 2015. Agents of Liberation – Holocaust Memory in Contemporary Art and Documentary Film. Trans. Reuben Fowlkes. Budapest and New York: Central European University Press; Saint Helena, CA: Helena History Press. 221 pages. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.CFF1AF43
• Faust, D. G. (1979). A Southern Stewardship: The Intellectual and the Proslavery Argument. https://doi.org/10.2307/2712487
• Fitzpatrick, S. (DE-588)132798344, (DE-576)160958431. (1999). Everyday Stalinism : ordinary life in extraordinary times; Soviet Russia in the 1930s / Sheila Fitzpatrick. Oxford [u.a.]: Oxford University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edswao&AN=edswao.075108488
• Levi, P., & Benedetti, L. de. (2017). Auschwitz Testimonies : 1945-1986. Cambridge, UK: Polity. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1619156
• Lipman, M., & Miller, A. I. (2012). The Convolutions of Historical Politics. New York: Central European University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=481164
• MacMillan, M. (2013). The War That Ended Peace : The Road to 1914. New York: Random House. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=738500
• Marcuse, H. (2018). Holocaust Angst: The Federal Republic of Germany and American Holocaust Memory since the 1970s. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edssch&AN=edssch.oai%3aescholarship.org%2fark%3a%2f13030%2fqt4hw4z9f0
• Miller, A. I. V. (DE-588)142901873, (DE-576)176793100, aut. (2018). The Russian revolution of 1917 : history, memory, and politics / Alexei Miller ; Valdai Discussion Club. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edswao&AN=edswao.500671486
• Papazian, S. (2019). The Cost of Memorializing: Analyzing Armenian Genocide Memorials and Commemorations in the Republic of Armenia and in the Diaspora. https://doi.org/10.18352/hcm.534
• Rogan, E. L. (2015). The Fall of the Ottomans : The Great War in the Middle East. New York, NY: Basic Books. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=953819
• Smith, K. E., & Inter-Republic Memorial Society (Soviet Union). (2009). Remembering Stalin’s Victims : Popular Memory and the End of the USSR. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1814616
• Snyder, T. (2010). Bloodlands : Europe Between Hitler and Stalin. New York: Basic Books. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=953826
• Snyder, T. (2015). Black Earth : The Holocaust As History and Warning. New York: Tim Duggan Books. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=926463

Recommended Additional Bibliography

• Assmann, A. (2014). Transnational Memories. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.D7305AE2
• Assmann, A. (DE-588)121012700, (DE-576)160116279. (2007). Der lange Schatten der Vergangenheit : Erinnerungskultur und Geschichtspolitik / Aleida Assmann. Bonn: Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edswao&AN=edswao.274288982
• Bennich-Björkman, L., & Kurbatov, S. (2019). When the Future Came : The Collapse of the USSR and the Emergence of National Memory in Post-Soviet History Textbooks. Stuttgart: Ibidem Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=2117494
• Blight, D. W. (1993). `What will peace among the Whites bring?’: Reunion and race in the struggle over the memory of.. Massachusetts Review, 34(3), 393. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=f5h&AN=9401275675
• Dekel, I. (2016). Subjects of memory? : On performing Holocaust memory in two German historical museums. Dapim; Studies on the Shoah, 30(3), 296–314. https://doi.org/10.1080/23256249.2016.1266990
• Eder, J. S., Gassert, P., & Steinweis, A. E. (2017). Holocaust Memory in a Globalizing World. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1478240
• Faust, D. G. (1981). The Ideology of Slavery : Proslavery Thought in the Antebellum South, 1830–1860. Baton Rouge: LSU Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=534487
• Faust, D. G. (1990). Altars of Sacrifice: Confederate Women and the Narratives of War. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.89B3D6DB
• Faust, D. G. (2008). This Republic of Suffering (Vol. 1st ed). New York: Vintage. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=723220
• Fitzpatrick, S., & Geyer, M. (2009). Beyond Totalitarianism : Stalinism and Nazism Compared. New York, N.Y.: Cambridge University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=263477
• Hansen-Glucklich, J. (2014). Holocaust Memory Reframed : Museums and the Challenges of Representation. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=716934
• Hovannisian, R. G. (2008). The Armenian Genocide : Cultural and Ethical Legacies. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=395706
• Welch, S. (2011). The resilience of the nation state : cosmopolitanism, Holocaust memory and German identity. German Politics and Society, 29(3), 38–54. https://doi.org/10.3167/gps.2011.290303