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| Semester | fall semester 2021 |
| Course frequency | Once only |
| Lecturers | Mikhail Akulov (mikhail.akulov@unibas.ch, Assessor) |
| Content | Often reduced to a side show of the 1917 “Russian” Revolution, the national movements triggered by it form the content of the course. Three broad objectives lie at the heart of our investigation. First, the course aims to assess the importance of the movements, arrogating the voice of various peoples of the polyglot empire, in the struggle habitually described as a confrontation between the “Reds” and the “Whites.” Secondly, it aims to explore the insights to be gained when situating individual “wars of liberation” within a comparative framework – that is, as part of a much larger nation-building, decolonial phenomenon. Finally, it strives to demonstrate the role that those movements – the patterns established by them and the memory thereof – continued to play in the processes of the late 1980s and early 1990s, which brought about the end of the Soviet “Empire/State of nations.” In our pursuit of these and other objectives, we will focus mostly on three regions: Ukraine, Central Asia and, if at times only implicitly so, the “Russian” core. This approach will help us see how decolonization, mass mobilization, overlapping and conflicting social, national and conservative agendas, violence and dislocation had colored specific, regional stages as much as they did the entire continent during the short twentieth century. |
| Bibliography | Dornik, Wolfram et al. (Hg.): Die Ukraine zwischen Selbstbestimmung und Fremdherrschaft 1917-1922. Graz 2011 (or the 2015 English translation). Kappeler, Andreas: The Russian Empire. A Multi-Ethnic History. New York, London 2001. Lindheim, R. and Luckyj, G. (Hg.): Towards Intellectual History of Ukraine. Toronto 1996. Lohr, Eric et al. (Hg.): The Empire and Nationalism at War. Bloomington 2014. Malikov, Yu. (Hg.): Modern Central Asia. A Primary Source Reader. New York, London 2019. Suny, Ronald G.: The Revenge of the Past. Stanford 1993. Suny, Ronald G. and Martin, Terry (Hg.): A State of Nations. Oxford, UK 2001. |
| Comments | Teilnehmerzahl ist begrenzt. Verfügbarkeit je nach Betriebskonzept und Bestuhlung im Herbst 2021. |
| Admission requirements | Studierende der Geschichte aller Studienstufen sowie Studierende anderer Studienfächer, in deren Module die Übung verknüpft ist. Bei Überbelegung wird die Teilnehmerzahl beschränkt. In diesem Fall werden Studierende der Geschichte bevorzugt zugelassen. |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Use of digital media | No specific media used |
| Interval | Weekday | Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
| wöchentlich | Thursday | 10.15-12.00 | Departement Geschichte, Seminarraum 4 |
| Date | Time | Room |
|---|---|---|
| Thursday 23.09.2021 | 10.15-12.00 | Departement Geschichte, Seminarraum 4 |
| Thursday 30.09.2021 | 10.15-12.00 | Departement Geschichte, Seminarraum 4 |
| Thursday 07.10.2021 | 10.15-12.00 | Departement Geschichte, Seminarraum 4 |
| Thursday 14.10.2021 | 10.15-12.00 | Departement Geschichte, Seminarraum 4 |
| Thursday 21.10.2021 | 10.15-12.00 | Departement Geschichte, Seminarraum 4 |
| Thursday 28.10.2021 | 10.15-12.00 | Departement Geschichte, Seminarraum 4 |
| Thursday 04.11.2021 | 10.15-12.00 | Departement Geschichte, Seminarraum 4 |
| Thursday 11.11.2021 | 10.15-12.00 | Departement Geschichte, Seminarraum 4 |
| Thursday 18.11.2021 | 10.15-12.00 | Departement Geschichte, Seminarraum 4 |
| Thursday 25.11.2021 | 10.15-12.00 | Departement Geschichte, Seminarraum 4 |
| Thursday 02.12.2021 | 10.15-12.00 | Departement Geschichte, Seminarraum 4 |
| Thursday 09.12.2021 | 10.15-12.00 | Departement Geschichte, Seminarraum 4 |
| Thursday 16.12.2021 | 10.15-12.00 | Departement Geschichte, Seminarraum 4 |
| Thursday 23.12.2021 | 10.15-12.00 | Departement Geschichte, Seminarraum 4 |
| Modules |
Electives Bachelor History: Recommendations (Bachelor's degree subject: History) Modul: Areas: Osteuropa (Master's degree program: European History in Global Perspective) Modul: Basis Geschichte: Ostmitteleuropa (Bachelor's degree program: Eastern European Studies) Modul: Basis Geschichte: Russland / Sowjetunion (Bachelor's degree program: Eastern European Studies) Modul: Europäisierung und Globalisierung (Master's Studies: European Global Studies) Modul: Geschichte Ostmitteleuropas (Master's degree subject: East European History) Modul: Geschichte Russlands und der Sowjetunion (Master's degree subject: East European History) Modul: Geschichte Südosteuropas (Master's degree subject: East European History) Vertiefungsmodul Global Europe: Friedens- und Konfliktforschung (Master's Studies: European Global Studies) Vertiefungsmodul Global Europe: Staatlichkeit, Entwicklung und Globalisierung (Master's Studies: European Global Studies) Wahlbereich Master Geschichte: Empfehlungen (Master's degree subject: History) |
| Assessment format | continuous assessment |
| Assessment details | Aktive Teilnahme. |
| Assessment registration/deregistration | Reg.: course registration; dereg.: not required |
| Repeat examination | no repeat examination |
| Scale | Pass / Fail |
| Repeated registration | no repetition |
| Responsible faculty | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch |
| Offered by | Departement Geschichte |