History

2022/2023

Учебный год

ENG

Обучение ведется на английском языке

3

Кредиты

Кто читает:

Департамент больших данных и информационного поиска

Статус:

Курс обязательный

Когда читается:

3-й курс, 3 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 in the USA, Europe, and Russia to commemorate and work through their “difficult heritage” in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Starting with a brief foray into the theory of memory studies, we will discuss the pivotal events of American and European histories (e.g., World War I, World War II, Shoah, civil wars in America and Spain, the Russian Revolution, colonialism) and analyze how individual and collective mnemonic actors 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 look at how modern cultures of remembrance manage to transform collective traumas into usable pasts, which help develop empathy towards the victims, maintain civil rights and freedoms, expand transparency and tolerance in the present. Indeed, while discussing the practices 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, Internet and social media. The course includes 11 lectures and 10 seminars, one essay, and an oral exam.

Learning Objectives

• Students will get the basics of how to work with primary and secondary sources including digital ones.
• 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 pivotal events of the twentieth century, e.g., Shoah, World War I, the Russian Revolution, the Great Patriotic War, the American Civil War.
• Students will 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 will be able to see the difference between public interpretations of the past and those of professional historians.

Expected Learning Outcomes

• Students develop the ability to present clear and coherent arguments about the material discussed in class.
• Students will gain knowledge of key figures, dates, and concepts given in each topic.
• Students will learn to use professionally the language of memory studies.
• Students will learn to work with historical material.

Course Contents

• History and Memory in the Twenty-First Century
• Shaping the Culture of Remembrance in Europe after 1914
• Trauma and Memory in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia
• Coping with the Legacy of Civil Wars
• Decolonizing Memory

Assessment Elements

• Perusall
• Seminars
• Essay
• Exam

Interim Assessment

• 2022/2023 3rd module
  0.3 * Seminars + 0.3 * Perusall + 0.2 * Essay + 0.2 * Exam

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