Bachelor
2023/2024
The Multiethnic Soviet Union
Type:
Elective course (History)
Area of studies:
History
Delivered by:
School of History
Where:
Faculty of Humanities
When:
3 year, 3 module
Mode of studies:
offline
Open to:
students of all HSE University campuses
Instructors:
Mehmet Volkan Kaşıkçı
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
3
Contact hours:
32
Course Syllabus
Abstract
This course focuses on the experiences of non-Russians peoples under the Soviet rule. The main purpose of the course is providing a history of the USSR the periphery. The course starts with a discussion of Revolution and Civil War and ends with an overview of late Soviet society in the periphery. Other themes to be discussed include Soviet nationalities policy, collectivization and famine, World War II, industrialization and modernization, multiethnic Soviet culture and so on. We will have eight lectures and eight seminars. Course readings will cover all parts of the Soviet Union.