Бакалавриат
2025/2026
Мировая политическая и экономическая история
Статус:
Курс обязательный (Политология и мировая политика)
Где читается:
Санкт-Петербургская школа социальных наук
Когда читается:
1-й курс, 1, 2 модуль
Охват аудитории:
для всех кампусов НИУ ВШЭ
Язык:
английский
Кредиты:
5
Контактные часы:
60
Course Syllabus
Abstract
This is a general course introducing fundamental political and economic processes in the world from the early modern time to 1991. The course will outline historical contexts of such issues as formation of modern state and governmental practices; emergence of nation-states; social and political revolutions; mass politics and new forms of political movements; patterns of development of the world economy. The course is aimed at developing comparative thinking and deepening the understanding of any political and economic phenomenon in its historical dimension.
Learning Objectives
- To familiarize students with main events and phenomena of political history of foreign countries in the 16-20th centuries
- To familiarize students with main concepts of political history
- To develop students' comparative thinking
- To familiarize students with the patterns of development of the world economy as a whole and the leading countries in various historical periods as well as the features of catching up development.
Expected Learning Outcomes
- The student can comprehend primary sources effectively
- The student consistently uses terminology of political history and knows main facts of political history of Russia and foreign countries (16th-20th centuries).
- The student can solve scholarly issue in collaboration with groupmates.
- The student can identify main thesis and issues raised in scholarly literature.
- The student can comprehend primary sources effectively.
- The student can participate in the debates on the issues under consideration.
- The student can communicate information and ideas in a style that is completely appropriate to discussions of scholarly literature.
Course Contents
- Approaching early modern Europe: main historical landmarks
- European politics in the XVIII century: Ancien regime and Enlightenment absolutisms
- American War of Independence and the French Revolution
- Industrial revolution in Europe and the world
- European wars and revolutions in the 19th century. Age of nationalism.
- European Imperialism and colonial rule in the 19th century
- Modernization of East Asia in the 19th century
- Politics in the First World War
- Interregnum: Liberal democracies in crisis
- Totalitarian regimes in Italy and Germany
- World politics in the Second World War
- The Cold War and the West
- The “Cold” war in the Third world: Decolonization, Resistance, revolutions, wars and global international organizations
- Democracy in global history in the second half of XX century
- The anti-communist revolutions of 1989–1991 The political crisis and the dissolution of the USSR and Yugoslavia
Assessment Elements
- ExamOur exam is a written assignment which includes 2 questions based on the issues discussed during the seminars and lectures: 1) an open question; 2) a task which requires you to find evidence for and against the statement.
- Seminar activity
- Historiographical essayThis essay will be written based on the research literature after a seminar discussion of a number of sources on the same topic. The aim is to record how the seminar discussion, as well as the student's personal opinion based on the sources, differed fundamentally from the position presented by the authors in their research.
- Debates
Interim Assessment
- 2025/2026 2nd module0.25 * Debates + 0.3 * Exam + 0.15 * Historiographical essay + 0.3 * Seminar activity
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- Berger, S. (2006). A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Europe, 1789 - 1914. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=147363
- Hobsbawm, E. J. (2012). Nations and Nationalism Since 1780 : Programme, Myth, Reality. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=909520
- International history of the twentieth century and beyond, Best, A., 2008
- James, H. (2014). Europe Reborn : A History, 1914-2000. Hoboken: Routledge. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=812600
- Jan C. Jansen, & Jürgen Osterhammel. (2017). Decolonization : A Short History. Princeton University Press.
- Klimke, M., Pekelder, J., & Scharloth, J. (2011). Between Prague Spring and French May : Opposition and Revolt in Europe, 1960-1980. New York: Berghahn Books. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=416085
- Morgan, P. (2003). Fascism in Europe, 1919-1945. London: Routledge. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=94858
- Wilson, P. H. (2000). Absolutism in Central Europe. London: Routledge. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=79626
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- Besier, G., & Stokłosa, K. (2013). European Dictatorships : A Comparative History of the Twentieth Century. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=685806
- Gordon, A. (2003). A Modern History of Japan : From Tokugawa Times to the Present. New York: Oxford University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=120926
- Olivier Pétré-Grenouilleau. (2004). From Slave Trade to Empire : European Colonisation of Black Africa 1780s-1880s. Routledge.
- Zubok, V. M. (2007). A Failed Empire : The Soviet Union in the Cold War From Stalin to Gorbachev. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=301081