The teaching will begin with a third week of the semester, from October 11, 2021.

1) 11.10. Lecture - Introduction (syllabus of the course)

2) 18.10. Soviet Identity as ethnonational coexistence: Slavs versus Turkic speaking people of the USSR

3) 25.10. Arts and culture as mediums of propaganda and a political tool

4) 1.11. Soviet powerhouses in political practises and promotion: centre - periphery in the USSR

5) 8.11. Soviet influence on the satellite countries (with Maria Asavei as Guest Lecturer)

6) 15.11. Post-Soviet Migration and diasporas in transition: the pop music case

7) 22.11. Musical dissent alternatives to the state cultural policies in the East European transnational perspectives (Jiri Kocian as Guest lecturer)

8) 29.11. The Soviet-Afghani war and its impact on culture (Slavomir Horak as Guest lecturer)

9) 6.12. Religion and secularism: the Soviet Union’s experience (Guest Lecturer Zilia Imamutdinova , Moscow, Arts Study Institute)

10) 13.12. Music and media as a tool of political propaganda in the Soviet and post-Soviet Turkmenistan (with Jamal Yazliyeva as a Guest lecturer)

11) 20.12. Gender and religions in the USSR: Central Asian case