Modern History of the Caucasus - JTB241

• Anglický název: Modern History of the Caucasus
• Zajišťuje: Katedra ruských a východoevropských studií (23-KRVS)
• Fakulta: Fakulta sociálních věd
• Platnost: od 2021 do 2021
• Semestr: letní
• E-Kredity: 6
• Způsob provedení zkoušky: letní s.:kombinovaná
• Rozsah, examinace: letní s.:1/1, Zk [HT]
• Počet míst: 15 / neurčen (15)
• Minimální obsazenost: neomezen
• 4EU+: ne
• Virtuální mobilita / počet míst pro virtuální mobilitu: ne
• Stav předmětu: vyučován
• Jazyk výuky: angličtina
• Způsob výuky: prezenční
• Způsob výuky: prezenční
• Poznámka: předmět je možno zapsat mimo plán; povolen pro zápis po webu; při zápisu přednost, je-li ve stud. plánu
• Garant: doc. Adrian Brisku, Ph.D.
• Vyučující: doc. Adrian Brisku, Ph.D.; Lamiya Panahova
• Třída: Courses for incoming students
• Neslučitelnost : JMB038

Anotace

Poslední úprava: doc. Adrian Brisku, Ph.D. (20.02.2024)

Particularly since the ‘long nineteenth century’, the peoples, nationalities, and nations in the Caucasus region – comprised of the North Caucasus, small republics at the southern border of the Russian Federation and of the South Caucasus, the nation-states of Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia adjacent to it – have had a shared history in terms of tsarist and Soviet Russian occupation, control and co-option, interethnic conflict and cooperation as well as social (under)development. Starting with a conceptual discussion of the region, its linguistic, ethnic, and cultural diversity as well as its pre-Tsarist political history, this course traces political, economic, and cultural processes that the North and South Caucasus have undergone during the Tsarist, Soviet and post-Soviet periods, underscoring factors, discourses and legacies that have shaped its past, still impact its present and potentially orient its future.

Cíl předmětu

Poslední úprava: doc. Adrian Brisku, Ph.D. (20.02.2024)

This course traces the modern emergence of this region in this context of shared history especially from the ninetheenth-century Tsarist rule, its place in the Soviet Union, as well as the post-Soviet oscillations, underscoring factors, discourses and legacies that have shaped its past, impacted its present and potentially will orient its future. 

Podmínky zakončení předmětu

Poslední úprava: doc. Adrian Brisku, Ph.D. (20.02.2024)

A.   COURSE REQUIREMENTS

1)     Attendance is mandatory as the course is designed as a seminar where substantial student participation is needed.

2)     Every four weeks, a position paper of around 300 words should be prepared and uploaded on our course’s Moodle page. Position papers should address a reading for the particular class. They should be done individually not as a group effort.

3)     Three weeks from the end of the class, a final paper of around 2500 words should be uploaded on Moodle.

4)     Active class participation – 20% position papers – 40% and final paper - 40%. 

 

B.    COURSE EVALUATION

A - "výborně - A" - "excellent - A"
B - "výborně - B" - "excellent - B"
C - "velmi dobře - C" - "very good - C"
D - "velmi dobře - D" - "very good - D"
E - "dobře - E" - "good - E"
F - "neprospěl/a - F" - "fail - F"

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Last Updated

24 Jan. 24

Literatura

Poslední úprava: doc. Adrian Brisku, Ph.D. (24.01.2024)

A.    READING ASSIGNMENTS    

1.     Conceptualizing the Caucasus, Discussing its Peoples, Languages and Lore (Brisku)

·       Muhlfried, Florian, “Caucasus Paradigms Revisited,” in Routledge Handbook of the Caucasus, G. M. Yemelianova & L. Broers, eds, (Routledge, 2020), 19-31

·       Colarusso, J., “Peoples, Langauges, Lore,” in Routledge Handbook of the Caucasus, G. M. Yemelianova & L. Broers, eds, (Routledge, 2020), 32-51

 

2.     The Early Christian and Muslim Caucasus (Brisku)

·       Rapp, Jr, S.., “The Early Christian Caucasus”, in Routledge Handbook of the Caucasus, G. M. Yemelianova & L. Broers, eds, (Routledge, 2020), 52-67

·       Yemelianova, G.M, Akkieva, S. I, “The Muslim Caucasus: The Role of ‘Adats and Shari’ah”, in Routledge Handbook of the Caucasus, G. M. Yemelianova & L. Broers, eds, (Routledge, 2020), 68-84

 

3.     The Political History of Caucasus from the Medieval to Early Modern Periods (Brisku)

·       Broers, L., Yemelianova, G. M., “The ‘Long Millennium’: The Caucasus from the Medieval to the Early Modern Periods”, in Routledge Handbook of the Caucasus, G. M. Yemelianova & L. Broers, eds, (Routledge, 2020), 87-106

 

4.     The Caucasus under Tsarist Rule in the “Long Nineteenth-Century” (Brisku)

·       Blauvelt, T. K., “The Caucasus in the Russian Empire”, in Routledge Handbook of the Caucasus, G. M. Yemelianova & L. Broers, eds, (Routledge, 2020), 107-120

 

5.     The First Transcaucasian Political Union, April-May 1918 (Brisku)

·       Brisku, Adrian & Timothy K. Blauvelt, “Who Wanted the TDFR: The Making and the Breaking of Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic”, in Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic, 1918: Federal Aspirations, Geopolitics and National Projects, Adrian Brisku and Timothy K. Blauvelt (Guest Editors), Caucasus Survey (2020), DOI: 10.1080/23761199.2020.1712897

·       Brisku, Adrian “The Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic as a ‘Georgian’ Responsibility”, in Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic, 1918: Federal Aspirations, Geopolitics and National Projects, Adrian Brisku and Timothy K. Blauvelt (Guest Editors), Caucasus Survey (2020), DOI: 10.1080/23761199.2020.1712902

·       Mamoulia, Georges, “Azerbaijan and the Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic: Historical Reality and Possibility”, in Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic, 1918: Federal Aspirations, Geopolitics and National Projects, Adrian Brisku and Timothy K. Blauvelt (Guest Editors)

·       Zolyan, Mikayel, “Between Empire and Independence: Armenia and the Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic” in Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic, 1918: Federal Aspirations, Geopolitics and National Projects, Adrian Brisku and Timothy K. Blauvelt (Guest Editors)

·       Slye, Sarah, “Turning Towards Unity: A North Caucasian Perspective on the Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic” in Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic, 1918: Federal Aspirations, Geopolitics and National Projects, Adrian Brisku and Timothy K. Blauvelt (Guest Editors)

6.     Three Independent South Caucasus Republics, 1918-1920/1 (Brisku)

·       Saparov, A., “Between the Russian Empire and the USSR: the Independence of Transcaucasia as a Socio-political Transformation”, in Routledge Handbook of the Caucasus, G. M. Yemelianova & L. Broers, eds, (Routledge, 2020), 121-135

 

7.     The Caucasus in the Soviet Union, 1921-1991 (Panahova)

·       Smith, J., “The Soviet Caucasus”, in Routledge Handbook of the Caucasus, G. M. Yemelianova & L. Broers, eds, (Routledge, 2020), 136-154

 

8.     Post-Soviet Azerbaijan (Panahova)

·       Alststadt, A. L., “Azerbaijan: Politics, Society and Economy since Independence”, in Routledge Handbook of the Caucasus, G. M. Yemelianova & L. Broers, eds, (Routledge, 2020), 157-173

 

9.     Post-Soviet Georgia (Panahova)

·       Nodia, G., “The New Georgia: Politics, Economy and Society”, in Routledge Handbook of the Caucasus, G. M. Yemelianova & L. Broers, eds, (Routledge, 2020), 174-188

 

10.  Post-Soviet Armenia (Panahova)

·       Iskandaryan, A., “Armenia: From Revolution to Revolution”, in Routledge Handbook of the Caucasus, G. M. Yemelianova & L. Broers, eds, (Routledge, 2020), 189-202

11.  The North-Eastern Caucasus: Dagestan, Chechnya and Ingushetia (Panahova)

·       Yemelianova, G. M., “The North-Eastern Caucasus: Dagestan, Chechnya and Ingushetia”, in Routledge Handbook of the Caucasus, G. M. Yemelianova & L. Broers, eds, (Routledge, 2020), 203-218

 

12.  The Post-Soviet North-Western Caucasus: Kabardino-Balkaria, Karachaevo-Cherkessia and Adygea (Panahova)

·       Yemelianova, G.M, Akkieva, S. I, “Post-Soviet North-Western Caucasus: Kabardino-Balkaria, Karachaevo-Cherkessia and Adygea”, in Routledge Handbook of the Caucasus, G. M. Yemelianova & L. Broers, eds, (Routledge, 2020), 219-238.

Metody výuky

Poslední úprava: doc. Adrian Brisku, Ph.D. (24.01.2024)

The course is seminar-based which means that the lecturers will open up the discussion on week's reading material by laying out the main concepts and questions which will be followed by students' interventions and analytical discussions.  

 

Sylabus

Poslední úprava: doc. Adrian Brisku, Ph.D. (20.02.2024)

Modern History of the Caucasus

(JTB 241)

Associate Professor Adrian Brisku, PhD

Doctoral Student, Lamiya Panahova

Department of Russian & East European Studies, Charles University

https://cuni.academia.edu/adrianBrisku

[e-mail]; [e-mail]

Annotation

Particularly since the ‘long nineteenth century’, the peoples, nationalities, and nations in the Caucasus region – comprised of the North Caucasus, small republics at the southern border of the Russian Federation and of the South Caucasus, the nation-states of Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia adjacent to it – have had a shared history in terms of tsarist and Soviet Russian occupation, control and co-option, interethnic conflict and cooperation as well as social (under)development. Starting with a conceptual discussion of the region, its linguistic, ethnic, and cultural diversity as well as its pre-Tsarist political history, this course traces political, economic, and cultural processes that the North and South Caucasus have undergone during the tsarist, Soviet and post-Soviet periods, underscoring factors, discourses and legacies that have shaped its past, still impact its present and potentially orient its future.  

 

A.    COURSE DESIGN  

1.     Conceptualising the Caucasus, Discussing its Peoples, Languages and Lore (Brisku)

2.     The Early Christian and Muslim Caucasus (Brisku)

3.     The Political History of Caucasus from the Medieval to Early Modern Periods (Brisku)

4.     The Caucasus under Tsarist Rule in the Long Nineteenth-Century (Brisku)

5.     The First Transcaucasian Political Union, April-May 1918 (Brisku)

6.     Three Independent South Caucasus Republics, 1918-1920(1) (Brisku)

7.     The Caucasus in the Soviet Union, 1921-1991 (Panahova)

8.     Post-Soviet Azerbaijan (Panahova)

9.     Post-Soviet Georgia (Panahova)

10.  Post-Soviet Armenia (Panahova)

11.  Post-Soviet North-Eastern Caucasus: Dagestan, Chechnya, and Ingushetia (Panahova)

12.  The Post-Soviet North-Western Caucasus: Kabardino-Balkaria, Karachaevo-Cherkessia and Adygea (Panahova)