Every week 45 minutes lecture and 45 minutes Seminar:

1) Russian Foreign Policy in Times of WWI and its impacts till the End of the Civil War (1914-1922)

2) Soviet Union on the Way from the Foreign Policy Isolation (1922-1933)

3) Soviet Union on the Crossroad (1933-1941)

4) Soviet Union as a Part of anti-Nazist Coalition (1941-1945/7)

5) The Beginnings of the Cold War (1945/7-1953)

6) Strategic Changes of the Soviet Foreign Policy in Timse of Nikita Khrushchev (1953-1964)

7) Soviet Union and Eastern Block in the Period od Détente (1964/8-1979)

8) The Last Round of the Cold War (1979-1985)

9) Perestroika and the Decline of the Soviet Empire - Reasons and Impacts (1985-1989/1)

10) Russian Foreign Policy under Yeltsin (1991-2000)

11) Putin's Impulse and Changes in the Foreign Policy Strategy (2000-till present times)

12) Foreign Policy Concepts of post-Soviet Countries (1991-till present times)

13) Conclusion Remarks and Discussion