Weekly Schedule

1. The Russian Identity: Geographical and Historical Background.

2. Pre-Petrine Russia: Origins of the Russian Identity.

3. Despotic Reformers and Progressive Dictators: Paradoxes of the First Imperial Century.

4. Patriotic Feeling in the Russian Empire: From 1812 to the Decembrists.

5. Nicholas I: Orthodoxy, Autocracy, and Nationality.

6. Alexander II and Alexander III: Great Reforms and Great Disillusionment.

7. The Fall of the Monarchy: Interpretations of the Russian Revolution.

8. On the Way to a World Proletarian Revolution: Bolsheviks in Power.

9. Stalin's Russia: a Kingdom of Terror and Reverence.

10. Ideology vs. Reality in the Late Soviet Union: Daily Life of a Homo Sovieticus.

11. The Fall of the Soviet Union and an Identity Crisis.

12. Historical Consciousness and National Identity in Putin's Russia.

13. The Heart of the Nation: the Great Patriotic War and Victory Day Cult in Russian Symbolic Policy.

Assignments

Final Paper (1500 words)

Recommended readings

PERRIE, Maureen, ed. The Cambridge history of Russia. Vol. 1, From early Rus' to 1689. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xxii, 777 s., [12] l. obr. příl. ISBN 0-521-81227-5.

LIEVEN, D. C. B., ed. The Cambridge history of Russia. Vol. 2, Imperial Russia, 1689-1917. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xxvii, 765 s., [6] l. obr. příl. ISBN 978-0-521-81529-1.

SUNY, Ronald Grigor, ed. The Cambridge history of Russia. Vol. 3, The twentieth century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xxiv, 842 s., [8] l. obr. příl. ISBN 978-0-521-81144-6.

PIPES, Richard. Russia under the old regime. Second edition. London: Penguin Books, 1995. XXII, 361 s. ISBN 0-14-024768-8.

GILL, Graeme J. Symbols and legitimacy in Soviet politics [online]. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011 [cit. 2019-09-01]. Dostupné z: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/natl-ebooks/detail.action?docID=691959.

GILL, Graeme J. Symbolism and regime change in Russia [online]. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013 [cit. 2019-09-01]. Dostupné z: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/natl-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1057553.

ROWLAND, Daniel B., ed. a CRACRAFT, James, ed. Architectures of Russian identity: 1500 to the present. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003. vii, 253 stran. ISBN 978-0-8014-8828-3.

Elusive Russia: current developments in Russian state identity and institutional reform under president Putin [online]. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2007 [cit. 2019-09-01]. Dostupné z: http://site.ebrary.com/lib/natl/Doc?id=10452839.

FRANKLIN, Simon, ed. a WIDDIS, Emma, ed. National Identity in Russian Culture: an Introduction. [2nd edition]. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xiii, 240 stran, 2 nečíslované strany obrazových příloh. ISBN 978-0-521-02429-7.

Religion and identity in modern Russia: the revival of orthodoxy and Islam. Hants: Ashgate, 2005. xiv, 149 s. Post-Soviet Politics. ISBN 0-7546-4272-0.

RIASANOVSKY, Nicholas Valentine. Russian identities: a historical survey [online]. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005 [cit. 2019-09-01]. Dostupné z: http://site.ebrary.com/lib/natl/Doc?id=10091884.

ISURIN, Ludmila. Russian Diaspora: culture, identity, and language change. New York: De Gruyter Mouton, 2011. xv, 234 stran. ISBN 978-1-934078-44-0.

SCHULER, Catherine. Theatre and identity in imperial Russia [online]. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2009. Studies in theatre history & culture [cit. 2019-09-01]. Dostupné z: http://site.ebrary.com/lib/natl/Doc?id=10579423.

NORRIS, Stephen M. A war of images: Russian popular prints, wartime culture, and national identity, 1812-1945. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2006. xiii, 277 s. ISBN 978-0-87580-363-0.

TROYAT, Henri. Daily Life in Russia under the Last Tsar. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1979. 242 s.

FEDYASHIN, Anton A. Liberals under autocracy: modernization and civil society in Russia, 1866-1904 [online]. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2012 [cit. 2019-09-01]. Dostupné z: http://site.ebrary.com/lib/natl/Doc?id=10611811.

BOTERBLOEM, Kees. Life and death under Stalin: Kalinin Province, 1945-1953 [online]. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, ©1999 [cit. 2019-09-01]. Dostupné z: http://site.ebrary.com/lib/natl/Doc?id=10141762.

PURLEVSKII, Savva Dmitrievich. A life under Russian serfdom: memoirs of Savva Dmitrievich Purlevskii, 1800-1868 [online]. Budapest: Central European University Press, ©2005 [cit. 2019-09-01]. Dostupné z: http://site.ebrary.com/lib/natl/Doc?id=10133543.

CONQUEST, Robert. The great terror: a reassessment. London: Pimlico, 2008. 576 s. ISBN 978-1-845-95144-3.

CHLEVNJUK, Oleg Vital‘jevič, ed. The History of the Gulag: from Collectivization to the Great Terror. New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2004. xviii, 418 s., [8] l. obr. příl. Annals of Communism. ISBN 0-300-09284-9.

HARRIS, James. The Great fear: Stalin's terror of the 1930s. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. x, 205 stran. ISBN 978-0-19-969576-8.

FIGES, Orlando. A Peoples' tragedy: the Russian Revolution 1891-1924. London: The Bodley Head, 2014. xxii, 923 stran, 36 nečíslovaných listů obrazových příloh. ISBN 978-1-84792-291-5.

FIGES, Orlando a KOLONICKIJ, Boris Ivanovič. Interpreting the Russian Revolution: the Language and Symbols of 1917. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999. 198 s., [8] l. obr. příl. ISBN 0-300-08106-5.

FIGES, Orlando. Natasha's dance: a Cultural History of Russia. First Edition. New York: Metropolitan Books Henry Holt and Company, 2002. XXXIII, 728 s., [8] obr. příl. ISBN 0-8050-5783-8.

VOLKOV, Solomon Moisejevič. The magical chorus: a history of Russian culture from Tolstoy to Solzhenitsyn. New York: Vintage Books, 2009. 333 s. ISBN 978-1-4000-7786-1.