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ImportFS
HIS-1010: Russia is another place. Modern Russian and Soviet history 1861-1991 Work Load
10 credits (ECTS) | Objectives
This course is a part of the bachelor programme in Russian Studies, and can be included in a bachelor-degree in History, in the one-year programme in history for teacher training students, 60 credits, and the subject group history for teachers, 30 credits, in addition to other combinations of subjects. This course can be a subsidiary subject in political science, or other disciplines of social science. | Contents
Throughout the centuries, Russia is the only non-Western country that has been able to defend itself against Western imperialism. Russia did it by building a powerful state which influenced society and shaped it according to fiscal and military needs. This way, the only non-Western way to modern society was created; a unique alternative which was neither ¿European¿, nor ¿Asian¿, but ¿Russian¿ and/or ¿Soviet¿. This course follows Russian/Soviet history from the ending of serfdom 1861, the October Revolution of 1917, and the establishment of the Soviet State ¿ and the ending of this state in 1991.T | Exam and assessment
The exam consists of two parts:- One course assignment of approx. 5-6 pages submitted mid-term. - One 6 hour university-based exam at the end of the term.A joint and equal assessment of the assignment and exam creates basis for the final grade: A-E for pass, F for fail. Students who fail will be given the opportunity of a re-sit examination. | Date(s) of written examination
29.05.2008
The exam date is preliminary and may be subject to change. Definitive exam date will be announced on the notice boards at the faculties in the beginning of May for the spring semester and in the beginning of November for the autumn semester. | Contact person/lecturer
Steinar Aas/Åse Johansen | Recommended reading/syllabus
Titler merket med * inngår i et kompendium som kan kjøpes på Akademisk kvarter, Universitetet i Tromsø. Kompendiet inneholder også noen titler som er merket #. Det er anbefalt lesning, men er ikke pensum. Til sammen er pensum på ca. 800 sider.
Følgende bøker må anskaffes:
Edward Acton 1996, Russia. The Tsarist and Soviet Legacy. Second edition.
London & New York. Longman.
[eller: Åsmund Egge 1993, Fra Aleksander II til Boris Jeltsin. Russlands
og Sovjetunionens moderne historie. Universitetsforlaget.]
Robert V. Daniels 1997, The Stalin revolution. Boston-New York: Houghton
Mifflin Company.
Martin McCauley 1995, The Khrushchev era 1953-1954. Seminar Studies in
History. London & New York. Longman
David Marples 2004, The Collapse of the Soviet Union 1985-1991. Seminar
studies in history. Harlow
Geoffrey Hosking & Robert Service 1999, Reinterpreting Russia. London: Arnold
Følgende deler av bøkene er pensum :
Acton 1996: 65-308 [eller Egge; hele boka]
Daniels 1997: Dmitrij Volkogonov, "The Man and the Communist": 13-28.
Daniels 1997: Viktor Danilov & N.V.Teptsov, "Collectivization: The Results":126-141.
Daniels 1997: Mervyn Matthews, "The New Inequality":143-159.
Daniels 1997: Wendy Goldman, "Revolution and the Family":160-174.
Daniels 1997:Robert C. Tucker, "A New Peter the Great": 219-233.
McCauley 1995: 1-125.
Marples 2004: 1-137.
Hosking & Service 1999: Maureen Perrie, "Popular monarchism: the myth of the ruler from Ivan the Terrible to Stalin". : 156-169.
Hosking & Service 1999:Robert Service, "Russian rulers: tsars, commissars and presidents".: 170-182..
Hosking & Service 1999: John Klier, "Russian Jews and the Soviet Agenda": 183-197. Hosking & Service 1999: David Moon, "The Problem of Social Stability in Russia, 1598-1998": 54-74. Hosking & Service 1999: Geoffrey Hosking, "The Russian people and the Soviet Union":: 214-223.
* James Cracraft (red.) 1994, Major Problems in the History of Imperial Russia. D.C. Heath & Company: 4-35.
*Edward Acton 1990, Rethinking the Russian Revolution. Edward Arnold: 167-181.
*Ian Thatcher, "Brezhnev as leader", i Edwin Bacon & Mark Sandle (red.) 2002, Brezhnev Reconsidered, Basingstoke: Palgrave, Macmillan: 22-37.
*Edwin Bacon & Mark Sandle, "Brezhnev reconsidered", i Edwin Bacon & Mark Sandle (red.) 2002, Brezhnev Reconsidered, Basingstoke: Palgrave, Macmillan: 203-217.
*John Keep 1995, Last of the Empires. A History of the Soviet Union 1945-1991: Oxford University Press: 165-283, 307-328.
| Timetables
http://timeplan.uit.no/emne.php?year=2008&department=ALLE&module=HIS-1010-1 |
Teaching spring 2008
Første forelesning: 7. januar kl.12.15 på M-025 i Breiviklia | | Forelesning | Faglig ansvarlig Jens Petter Nielsen
Foreleser Univ.stip. Kari Aga Myklebost
Fag/Kursansvarlig prof. Jens Petter Nielsen
| | Eksamen | Oppgave utleveres: Mandag 25. februar. Innlevering: Mandag 3. mars
Skriftlig eksamen: Torsdag 29. mai |
Pensum
Titler merket med * inngår i et kompendium som kan kjøpes på Akademisk kvarter, Universitetet i Tromsø. Kompendiet inneholder også noen titler som er merket #. Det er anbefalt lesning, men er ikke pensum. Til sammen er pensum på ca. 800 sider.
Følgende bøker må anskaffes:
Edward Acton 1996, Russia. The Tsarist and Soviet Legacy. Second edition. London & New York. Longman.
[eller: Åsmund Egge 1993, Fra Aleksander II til Boris Jeltsin. Russlands og Sovjetunionens moderne historie. Universitetsforlaget.]
Robert V. Daniels 1997, The Stalin revolution. Boston-New York: Houghton Mifflin Company.
Martin McCauley 1995, The Khrushchev era 1953-1954. Seminar Studies in History. London & New York. Longman
David Marples 2004, The Collapse of the Soviet Union 1985-1991. Seminar studies in history. Harlow Geoffrey Hosking & Robert Service 1999, Reinterpreting Russia. London: Arnold
Følgende deler av bøkene er pensum:
Acton 1996: 65-308 [eller Egge; hele boka]
Daniels 1997: Dmitrij Volkogonov, "The Man and the Communist": 13-28.
Daniels 1997: Viktor Danilov & N.V.Teptsov, "Collectivization: The Results":126-141.
Daniels 1997: Mervyn Matthews, "The New Inequality":143-159.
Daniels 1997: Wendy Goldman, "Revolution and the Family":160-174.
Daniels 1997:Robert C. Tucker, "A New Peter the Great": 219-233.
McCauley 1995: 1-125.
Marples 2004: 1-137.
Hosking & Service 1999: Maureen Perrie, "Popular monarchism: the myth of the ruler from Ivan the Terrible to Stalin". : 156-169.
Hosking & Service 1999:Robert Service, "Russian rulers: tsars, commissars and presidents".: 170-182..
Hosking & Service 1999: John Klier, “Russian Jews and the Soviet Agenda”: 183-197. Hosking & Service 1999: David Moon, “The Problem of Social Stability in Russia, 1598-1998”: 54-74
Hosking & Service 1999: Geoffrey Hosking, "The Russian people and the Soviet Union":: 214-223.
* James Cracraft (red.) 1994, Major Problems in the History of Imperial Russia. D.C. Heath & Company: 4-35.
*Edward Acton 1990, Rethinking the Russian Revolution. Edward Arnold: 167-181.
*Ian Thatcher, “Brezhnev as leader”, i Edwin Bacon & Mark Sandle (red.) 2002, Brezhnev Reconsidered, Basingstoke: Palgrave, Macmillan: 22-37.
*Edwin Bacon & Mark Sandle, “Brezhnev reconsidered”, i Edwin Bacon & Mark Sandle (red.) 2002, Brezhnev Reconsidered, Basingstoke: Palgrave, Macmillan: 203-217.
*John Keep 1995, Last of the Empires. A History of the Soviet Union 1945-1991: Oxford University Press: 165-283, 307-328.
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