Syllabus
Basic topics
1. Introduction to the topic, Presentations, Requirements
2. Early stages-Pre-historians, Karamzin
3. Search for the national identity: Chaadaev, Milyukov, Danilevskii
4. Marxists - ideas of Trotsky, Lenin
5. Emigration: Savitsky, Berdyaev
6. Post-Soviet discussion - Achiezer, Panarin
7. New Russian idea Barsenkov, Vdovin, Milov
8. Western Sovietology and Russian studies - Totalitarism, Revisionism, Fitzpatrick In detail, please see Moodle 1 here: https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=1176
Annotation
This course concentrates on framing and interpreting of modern Russian history. It puts an emphasiz on generalizing schemes as well as on Russian links to neighboring countries and brings also examples of national perspectives or politics of history.