Russia: Nationalism, National Minorities and National Problems (since the Late 1980s) - JTM518

• Anglický název: Russia: Nationalism, National Minorities and National Problems (since the Late 1980s)
• Český název: Rusko: nacionalismus, národnostní menšiny a národnostní problémy (od pozdních 80. let 20. století)
• Zajišťuje: Katedra ruských a východoevropských studií (23-KRVS)
• Fakulta: Fakulta sociálních věd
• Platnost: od 2022 do 2022
• Semestr: letní
• E-Kredity: 6
• Způsob provedení zkoušky: letní s.:
• Rozsah, examinace: letní s.:1/1, Zk [HT]
• Počet míst: 12 / neurčen (20)
• Minimální obsazenost: neomezen
• 4EU+: ne
• Virtuální mobilita / počet míst pro virtuální mobilitu: ne
• Stav předmětu: vyučován
• Jazyk výuky: angličtina
• Způsob výuky: prezenční
• Poznámka: předmět je možno zapsat mimo plán; povolen pro zápis po webu; při zápisu přednost, je-li ve stud. plánu
• Garant: Dr. Dmitry Dubrovskiy
• Vyučující: Dr. Dmitry Dubrovskiy
• Třída: Courses for incoming students

Anotace

This course explores various issues of nationalism in post-Soviet Russia/Eurasia from the collapse of the Soviet Union up to recent developments. The objective of the course is to provide a broad understanding of the importance of nationalism in late Soviet and Russian political history.
Students will familiarize themselves with the late Soviet and post-Soviet nationalities policies as well as with ethnic problems and conflicts in the USSR/ Eurasia. Students will be also able to analyze the logic of decision-making in the Soviet nationalities policy and realize political potential and prospects of nationalism in present Eurasia. The course will enable students to evaluate policies, problems and conflicts both from normative and non-normative (pragmatic) perspectives.
The course consists of three parts: the first part presents theoretical introduction to nationalism, the second part covers the Soviet period and the third part focuses on the post-Soviet nationalism. Among the topics covered are the collapse of the USSR, Russian compatriots’ policy, ethnic reasons of the collapse of the USSR, ethnic mobilization in the late Soviet period, conflict in Chechnya, radical Russian nationalism and many others.

Poslední úprava: Dubrovskiy Dmitry, Dr. (14.02.2024)

Cíl předmětu

Students will familiarize themselves with the late Soviet and post-Soviet nationalities policies as well as with ethnic problems and conflicts in the USSR/ Eurasia. Students will be also able to analyze the logic of decision-making in the Soviet nationalities policy and realize political potential and prospects of nationalism in present Russia. The course will enable students to evaluate policies, problems and conflicts both from normative and non-normative (pragmatic) perspectives.

Poslední úprava: Dubrovskiy Dmitry, Dr. (14.02.2024)

Podmínky zakončení předmětu

The course is designed as a series of lectures and seminars to discuss selected issues related to theory and history of nationalism in Russia. First, as the course is grounded on discussion of problems with no sole optimal solution, each student must take part in the discussions during seminars. The assessment of students` work is based on individual participation and individual oral presentations on the issues raised in the compulsory readings. Grading is based on answers to the instructor’s questions addressed to the audience and particular students; students’ questions to the instructor; discussions among students in smaller groups. Students are assessed for the quality of their arguments and ability to analyze critically the problem, engage with the arguments of the book, peers and the instructor, ability to find links between different parts of the course and its readings.  Second, the attendance is obligatory. Students must not skip classes without valid reason. If a student misses more than one class without a valid reason, he/she will be punished by reduction of his/her assessment by 5 % for each class sh/e has missed. Finally, to pass the exam each student has to submit an essay on one of the books that were discussed during the course. The topic of an essay should be approved by the instructor and submitted by the student no later than three weeks before the deadline.    Grading rules Gfinal  = 0,20 active participation and presence in the class + 0.20 Case Portfolio   + 0.20 Presentation + 0.40 Written essay   1/ Oral presentations: One presentation is introductory to the chosen case, based on generally available data and material. The criteria of assessment include the ability to present and interpret data: clarity, logic, and responsiveness (when questioned). 2/ Portfolio: Each student, after picking up a particular case, starts working on a portfolio that he/she continues to develop until the end of class. The portfolio includes different sources for analyses - from the mass media reports and primary source material, including mass media, analytical reporting, blogs and forums, statistical data, qualitative studies of narratives, to a review of academic literature and analytical literature; finally, the elements of independent analysis of the case under study. Here the criteria are: completeness of various “layers” of the portfolio, and interconnections between them. At least 30 sources have to be collected in the portfolio – with the explanation, why it important for the case under investigation (should be done till mid-term”) 3/ Written essay: The written essay is assigned by the end of the class; it must basically include a review of the academic literature on the chosen case. The criteria of assessment are: clarity of writing style, thorough documentation/reference style, creating logical structure of the essay

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Poslední úprava: Dubrovskiy Dmitry, Dr. (14.02.2024)

Literatura

 

Beissinger, M.R. (2009). Nationalism and the Collapse of Soviet Communism. Contemporary European History, [online] 18(3), pp.331–347

Brubaker, Rogers. "Nationalizing states revisited: projects and processes of nationalization in post-Soviet states." In Nationalism, ethnicity and boundaries, pp. 177-203. Routledge, 2014.

Du Quenoy, Irina, and Dmitry Dubrovskiy. "Violence and the Defense of ‘Traditional Values’ in the Russian Federation." Religion and Violence in Russia: Context, Manifestations, and Policy (2018): 93-116

Fenghi, Fabrizio, 2017. Making post-Soviet counterpublics: the aesthetics of Limonka and the National-Bolshevik Party. Nationalities Papers, 45(2), pp.182-205.

Knox, Zoe 2005. Russian Orthodoxy, Russian Nationalism, and Patriarch Aleksii II. Nationalities Papers, 33(4), pp.533-545.

Koposov, Nikolay. Memory laws, memory wars: the politics of the past in Europe and Russia. Cambridge, Cambridge UP. Chapter 1.

Laruelle, Marlene. "Rethinking Russian nationalism: Historical continuity, political diversity, and doctrinal fragmentation." In Russian nationalism and the national reassertion of Russia, pp. 13-48. 2010.

Laruelle, Marlene. "Russia as a “Divided nation,” from compatriots to Crimea: A contribution to the discussion on nationalism and foreign policy." Problems of Post-Communism 62, no. 2 (2015): 88-97.

Laruelle, Marlene. Russian nationalism: Imaginaries, doctrines, and political battlefields. Taylor & Francis, 2019. Parts I-II

Mitrofanova, Anastasia. "Russian ethnic nationalism and religion today." The New Russian Nationalism: Imperialism, Ethnicity and Authoritarianism 2015 (2000): 104-131.

Mitrokhin, Nikolai. "Ethno-nationalist Mythology in the Soviet Party-State Apparatus." (2004): 20-29.  https://academiccommons.columbia.edu/doi/10.7916/d8-n52q-jb90/download

Ryazanova-Clarke, Lara. "From commodification to weaponization: The Russian language as ‘pride’and ‘profit’in Russia's transnational discourses." International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 20, no. 4 (2017): 443-456.

Shcherbak, Andrey, and Kristina Sych. "Trends in Russian nationalities policy: a structural perspective." Problems of Post-Communism 64, no. 6 (2017): 311-328.

Sukhankin, Sergey. "Anti-Semitism in the late Soviet Union: The rise and fall of Pamyat movement." Tiempo devorado 4, no. 1 (2017): 0039-60

Suny, R.G. (1993). Chapter 3. State-Building and Nation-Making: The Soviet Experience. In: The Revenge of the Past: Nationalism, Revolution, and the Collapse of the Soviet Union. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.

Suny, R.G. (1993). Chapter 3. State-Building and Nation-Making: The Soviet Experience. In: The Revenge of the Past: Nationalism, Revolution, and the Collapse of the Soviet Union. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.

Verkhovsky, Alexander. "Radical nationalists from the start of Medvedev’s presidency to the war in Donbas: True till death?." The new Russian nationalism. imperialism, ethnicity and authoritarianism 2015 (2000): 75-103.

Poslední úprava: Dubrovskiy Dmitry, Dr. (14.02.2024)

Sylabus

1. Introduction. Soviet and Russian Nationalism: uncertain relations

 

Reading

 

 

Suny, R.G. (1993). Chapter 3. State-Building and Nation-Making: The Soviet Experience. In: The Revenge of the Past: Nationalism, Revolution, and the Collapse of the Soviet Union. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.

Laruelle, Marlene. "Rethinking Russian nationalism: Historical continuity, political diversity, and doctrinal fragmentation." In Russian nationalism and the national reassertion of Russia, pp. 13-48. 2010.

 

2. Ideological foundation of Russian nationalism

 

Laruelle, Marlene. Russian nationalism: Imaginaries, doctrines, and political battlefields. Taylor & Francis, 2019. Parts I-II

 

 

3. Late Soviet Union and Russian Nationalism in Russia: “Russian Party” and “Pamyat”. Russian nationalism and the collapse of the USSR.

 

Reading

 

Sukhankin, Sergey. "Anti-Semitism in the late Soviet Union: The rise and fall of Pamyat movement." Tiempo devorado 4, no. 1 (2017): 0039-60

Mitrokhin, Nikolai. "Ethno-nationalist Mythology in the Soviet Party-State Apparatus." (2004): 20-29.  https://academiccommons.columbia.edu/doi/10.7916/d8-n52q-jb90/download

Beissinger, M.R. (2009). Nationalism and the Collapse of Soviet Communism. Contemporary European History, [online] 18(3), pp.331–347

Suny, R.G. (1993). Chapter 3. State-Building and Nation-Making: The Soviet Experience. In: The Revenge of the Past: Nationalism, Revolution, and the Collapse of the Soviet Union. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.

 

4. Russian policy of nationalities and Russian nationalism

 

Shcherbak, Andrey, and Kristina Sych. "Trends in Russian nationalities policy: a structural perspective." Problems of Post-Communism 64, no. 6 (2017): 311-328.

Brubaker, Rogers. "Nationalizing states revisited: projects and processes of nationalization in post-Soviet states." In Nationalism, ethnicity and boundaries, pp. 177-203. Routledge, 2014.

 

5. Russian compatriots’ abroad – between “common past” and “ethnic unity”

 

Reading

Laruelle, Marlene. "Russia as a “Divided nation,” from compatriots to Crimea: A contribution to the discussion on nationalism and foreign policy." Problems of Post-Communism 62, no. 2 (2015): 88-97.

 

6. Russian Orthodox Church and Russian Nationalism

 

Reading

 

Knox, Zoe 2005. Russian Orthodoxy, Russian Nationalism, and Patriarch Aleksii II. Nationalities Papers, 33(4), pp.533-545.

Mitrofanova, Anastasia. "Russian ethnic nationalism and religion today." The New Russian Nationalism: Imperialism, Ethnicity and Authoritarianism 2015 (2000): 104-131.

 

7.  Russian radical nationalism

 

Reading

 

Verkhovsky, Alexander. "Radical nationalists from the start of Medvedev’s presidency to the war in Donbas: True till death?." The new Russian nationalism. imperialism, ethnicity and authoritarianism 2015 (2000): 75-103.

Du Quenoy, Irina, and Dmitry Dubrovskiy. "Violence and the Defense of ‘Traditional Values’ in the Russian Federation." Religion and Violence in Russia: Context, Manifestations, and Policy (2018): 93-116

 

8. National-Bolsheviks party

 

Reading

 

Fenghi, Fabrizio, 2017. Making post-Soviet counterpublics: the aesthetics of Limonka and the National-Bolshevik Party. Nationalities Papers, 45(2), pp.182-205.

 

9. Russia: Nationalizing country, weaponizing memory and language

 

Reading

 

Koposov, Nikolay. Memory laws, memory wars: the politics of the past in Europe and Russia. Cambridge, Cambridge UP. Chapter 1.

Ryazanova-Clarke, Lara. "From commodification to weaponization: The Russian language as ‘pride’and ‘profit’in Russia's transnational discourses." International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 20, no. 4 (2017): 443-456.

 

 

10. Russian nationalism and Ukranian War

 

Reading

 

Kuzio, Taras. Russian Nationalism and the Russian-Ukrainian War: Autocracy-Orthodoxy-Nationality. Routledge, 2022.

 

Poslední úprava: Bartůšek Jaroslav, Bc. (23.09.2024)