Russia as a Multinational Polity 3620-RMP-SP-OG

The course will address the follwong topics:
1. The emergence of a multinational Muscovite polity as a result of conquest of Kazan
2. The pre-modern paradigm: the case of Baltic Provinces and the Cossack Hetmanate
3. The appearance of a modern national idea and its consequences for the Empire
4. The incorporation of the Rzeczpospolita - the birth of “the Polish Question"
5. The Empire's attempts to meet the challenge of modern nationalism.
6. The Polish Question, 1831-1905
7. The Rise of the Ukrainian National Idea and Movement.
8. The "Eastern" Nationalities - The Kazan Tartars
9. The Volga nationalitis and the “Ilminskii System”
10. The Conquest and the administration of Transcaucasia
11. Imperial policy towards Jews and its evolution
12. The National Question(s) during the Revolution and the Civil War (1917-1921)
13. The Bolshevik attempt to solve “the national question” – the policy of “korenizatsiia”
14. Stalin’s revision of “korenizatsiia” policy 1928-1953
15. The nationality fator in the collapse of the USSR, 1986-1991

Type of course

general courses

Course coordinators

Witold Rodkiewicz

Learning outcomes

According to the student's choice and the course description

Assessment criteria

Written exam. Attendance of lectures is obligatory.

Bibliography

Russification in the Baltic Provinces and Finland 1855-1914, ed. Edward C. Thaden ; coaut. Michael H. Haltzel [et al.]. (Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1981)
Alexei Miller, The Ukrainian question : the Russian Empire and nationalism in the nineteenth century
Theodore R. Weeks, Nation and state in late imperial Russia : nationalism and Russification on the western frontier, 1863-1914
Andreas Kappeler, The Russian empire : a multiethnic history (Harlow [etc.] : Longman, 2001)
Richard Pipes. The formation of the Soviet Union : communism and nationalism 1917-1923
Theodore R. Weeks, Vilnius between nations, 1795-2000 (DeKalb : Northern Illinois University Press, 2015) [relevant chapters]
Alexey Miller, Natsiia, Narod, Narodnost' in Russia in the 19th Century: Some Introductory Remarks to the History of Concepts, Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas, Neue Folge, Bd. 56, H. 3 (2008)
David B. Saunders, Historians and Concepts of Nationality in Early Nineteenth-Century Russia, The Slavonic and East European Review, Vol. 60, No. 1 (Jan., 1982)
T. Martin, The German Question in Russia, 1848-1896, Russian History, Vol. 18, No. 4 (WINTER 1991 / HIVER 1991),
D. Staliūnas, Between Russification and Divide and Rule: Russian Nationality Policy in the Western Borderlands in mid-19th Century, Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas, Neue Folge, Bd. 55, H. 3 (2007)
Pogroms : anti-Jewish violence in modern Russian history, ed. by John D. Klier and Shlomo Lambroza
Russia's Orient : imperial borderlands and peoples, 1700-1917, Daniel R. Brower and Edward J. Lazzerini, eds.
Frank T. McCarthy, The Kazan' Missionary Congress, Source: Cahiers du Monde russe et soviétique, Vol. 14, No. 3 (Jul. - Sep., 1973)
J.L. Black, Interpretations of Poland in Nineteenth Century Russian Nationalist-Oriented Historiography The Polidh Review Vol. 17, No. 4 (Autumn, 1972),
Paul W. Werth, The Qazaq Steppe and Islamic Administrative Exceptionalism: A Comparisonwith Buddhism Among Buriats

Additional information

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