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Lecturer(s)
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Komendová Jitka, doc. Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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The lectures are mostly dedicated to the issues connected to the history of culture and also to the issued which are still influencing the situation in eastern Europe. We shall look at these issues from the long-term perspective (e.g. the expansion of Russia, the position of Orthodox church in the history of Russia, the changing nature of Russian monarchical power and its path to the absolutism). Programme: 1. Basic concepts. Periodization. 2. Formation of medieval Rus 3. Christianity in Rus. 4.State structures. Sovereign power. Principality of Galicia-Volhynia. 5. Medieval Novgorod. 6. Rus and "The Great Steppe": the peoples from steppes and their role in Russian history. 7. Forming of the Moscowian Rus and the path to tsarist autocracy. 8. Territorial expansion from the times of Ioan IV. up to the 19th century. 9. Ukraine as a part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Polish kingdom. 10. Peter I and the establishment of the Russian Empire 11. Ukraine under the ruling of Russian and Austria, national revival and fighting for impendent Ukraine. 10. The reforms of the 18th century. 11. Revolutionary movements in the 19th century.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Lecture, Work with Text (with Book, Textbook)
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Learning outcomes
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This course presents the students with the basic facts and problems of Russian and Ukrainian history. In the lectures we shall mostly focus on the issues connected to the history of culture (this aspect is further followed in the course The Outline of Russian and Ukrainian Culture and the lectures and seminars dedicated to Russian and Ukrainian literature), and also on the problems which are still felt in present day. We shall look at these issues from the long-term perspective (e.g. the expansion of Russia, the position of Orthodox church in the history of Russia and Ukraine, the changing nature of Russian monarchical power and its path to the absolutism). The history of Russia and Ukraine is viewed as a history of a multicultural and multiethnic unit for which reason we shall also address the problematic of conquered nations in Russia (Jews, Tartars, peoples in Caucasus etc.)
Students will obtain a basic outline of the key problems in the history of the Eastern Slavic countries, which will be useful for a more detailed study of the history of culture and literature in the following courses.
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Prerequisites
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Basic knowledge of the history of European Middle Ages and the New Age (on a high school level).
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Written exam
Passing the colloquium on Russian history. There will be three attempts only.
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Recommended literature
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Jan Rychlík, Bohdan Zilynskyj, Paul Robert Magocsi. (2015). Dějiny Ukrajiny. Praha.
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Masaryk, T.G. (1996). Rusko a Evropa I.-III..
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Pipes, R. (2004). Rusko za starého režimu.. Praha.
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Vydra Z., Řoutil M., Komendová J., Hloušková K., Téra M. (2017). Dějiny Ruska. Praha.
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