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HIS 433 Seminar in Russian History: The Russian-Ukrainian Conflict in Historical Perspective
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Prague, Czech Republic
Dates: 8/28/17 - 12/16/17
HIS 433 Seminar in Russian History: The Russian-Ukrainian Conflict in Historical Perspective
OVERVIEW
CEA CAPA Partner Institution: Anglo-American University
Location: Prague, Czech Republic
Primary Subject Area: History
Instruction in: English
Transcript Source: TBD
Course Details: Level 400
Recommended Semester Credits: 3
Contact Hours: 42
Prerequisites: None
DESCRIPTION
This course consists of two basic components - lectures and seminars. It aims to provide students with an understanding of the conflict between Russia or Russian supported separatists in Eastern Ukraine and Ukraine by placing this conflict in an overall historical perspective. Course lectures will address the following topics: fundamental questions related to the formation of Russian and Ukrainian national identities; theoretical issues of nationalities and nationalism constructed on concepts of ethnicity or political and civic identity.
We also will examine the debates that took place in Russian and Ukrainian historiography during the ninetieth, twentieth and twenty first-centuries, debates that posed the key question of where Russian and Ukrainian history begin. Is there a common Russian/Ukrainian national identity based on their early common history, or do the historical, political, social and cultural events that took place between the thirteenth and eighteenth centuries bring about the rise of two distinct nations?
We will also survey the political, social and economic situation in the Ukrainian state since its independence and examine the roots of the conflict between the eastern and western parts of the state - the language questions, religious differences, economic disparity, corruption and other internal disputes that developed in Ukraine in the last 26 years. We will address the new policies of Russia that were revealed in the wars in Georgia and Transnistria, the annexation of Crimea and the present-day conflict in Eastern Ukraine.
In the seminar portion of the course students will be expected to participate actively in class discussions and presentations (the format of the presentations will depend on the number of students in the class). Students will be expected to read material required for the course and be able to engage in discussions related to the assigned readings. Specific reading material will be assigned for each seminar.
We also will examine the debates that took place in Russian and Ukrainian historiography during the ninetieth, twentieth and twenty first-centuries, debates that posed the key question of where Russian and Ukrainian history begin. Is there a common Russian/Ukrainian national identity based on their early common history, or do the historical, political, social and cultural events that took place between the thirteenth and eighteenth centuries bring about the rise of two distinct nations?
We will also survey the political, social and economic situation in the Ukrainian state since its independence and examine the roots of the conflict between the eastern and western parts of the state - the language questions, religious differences, economic disparity, corruption and other internal disputes that developed in Ukraine in the last 26 years. We will address the new policies of Russia that were revealed in the wars in Georgia and Transnistria, the annexation of Crimea and the present-day conflict in Eastern Ukraine.
In the seminar portion of the course students will be expected to participate actively in class discussions and presentations (the format of the presentations will depend on the number of students in the class). Students will be expected to read material required for the course and be able to engage in discussions related to the assigned readings. Specific reading material will be assigned for each seminar.