Soviet Culture as a Social Phenomenon - JTM553

• Anglický název: Soviet Culture as a Social Phenomenon
• Český název: Sovětská kultura jako společenský fenomén
• Zajišťuje: Katedra ruských a východoevropských studií (23-KRVS)
• Fakulta: Fakulta sociálních věd
• Platnost: od 2022
• Semestr: zimní
• E-Kredity: 6
• Způsob provedení zkoušky: zimní s.:
• Rozsah, examinace: zimní s.:1/1, Zk [HT]
• Počet míst: neurčen / neurčen (25)
• Minimální obsazenost: neomezen
• 4EU+: ne
• Virtuální mobilita / počet míst pro virtuální mobilitu: ne
• Stav předmětu: nevyučován
• Jazyk výuky: angličtina
• Způsob výuky: prezenční
• Způsob výuky: prezenční
• Poznámka: předmět je možno zapsat mimo plán; povolen pro zápis po webu
• Garant: Dr. Razia Sultanova; PhDr. Jiří Kocián, Ph.D.
• Třída: Courses for incoming students

Anotace

Poslední úprava: PhDr. Jiří Kocián, Ph.D. (18.10.2021)

This course aims to explore and expand on the relationship between culture and society in the USSR and its satellites countries. Specifically, this course will explore how culture was employed as an ideo-logical tool by the Soviet state - through the lenses of education and propaganda of Socialism inherent to the Soviet aesthetic. Drawing on a rich range of insider-outsider recollections this course seeks to analyse a comprehensive view of culture in the USSR. Anchored in qualitative research the course will advance the knowledge about both how culture can be altered ideologically, as well as about culture’s potential to act as a cohesions factor in revisiting authority and cultural hegemony.

Lecturer contact: [e-mail]

Cíl předmětu

Poslední úprava: PhDr. Jiří Kocián, Ph.D. (20.09.2021)

The course aims at presenting interdisciplinary perspective of the culture and politics entanglement in the Soviet Union and its satellites, while demonstrating various methodological approaches.

Podmínky zakončení předmětu

Poslední úprava: PhDr. Jiří Kocián, Ph.D. (20.09.2021)

Presence at the lectures/seminars, student presentation during the classes and a seminar paper (3000 words).

Literatura

Poslední úprava: PhDr. Jiří Kocián, Ph.D. (20.09.2021)

1) Etkind Alexander, B Beumers , O, Gurova and S Turoma.
Cultural forms of protest in Russia, New York, Routledge, 2017
2) Etkind Alexander: Post-Soviet Russia: the land of the Oil Curse, Pussy Riot, and Magical Histori-cism”, Boundary 2, Vol 41, No 1; 2014, pp152-170
3) Etkind Alexander, How Russia colonised itself., International Journal for History,Culture and Mo-dernity, Vol 3, No 2, 2015, pp159-172
4)Fitzpatrick, S.1993: 745-770, Ascribing Class: The Construction of Social Identity in Soviet Rus-sia.The Journal of Modern History,Vol. 65, No. 4 (Dec., 1993). the University of Chicago Press
5) Jowett, G. and O'Donnell, V. 2011. Propaganda & Persuasion. SAGE Publications.
6) Olkhovsky, A.1975. Music under the Soviets: the Agony of an Art. Greenwood Press.
7) Sultanova R. & Rancier M. 2019. (Eds) Turkic soundscapes: From Shamanic Voices to Hip-Hop, Routledge, London - New York
8) Sultanova R. 1993, “Politics and Music after the October revolution" in The Situation in the Years after 1930, ACASIA, USA, pp7
9) Tomoff, K. 2006. Creative Union: The Professional Organisation of Soviet Composers, 1939–1953. Ithaca.
10) Post-Soviet Migration nd Diasporas, Nikolko, Milana, Carment, David (Eds). Palgrave Macmil-lan, 2017.
11) Abashin, Sergei, Migration from Central Asia to Russia in the New Model of World Order. Rus-sian Politics & Law, Vol. 52, No. 6 (2014), pp. 8-23.

12) The Russian Conquest of Central Asia, A Study in Imperial Expansion, 1814–1914, Cambridge University Press, 2020.

13) Сергей Абашин, Советский кишлак: Между колониализмом и модернизацией (Библио-тека журнала «Неприкосновенный запас»), Новое литературное обозрение, Москва, 2015
14) Валерий Тишков, Российский народ, пространство и культура. Санкт Петербург, 2018
15) Эткинд, Александр. Природа зла. Сырье и государство. — М.: НЛО, 2020.

Metody výuky

Poslední úprava: PhDr. Jiří Kocián, Ph.D. (01.10.2021)

The course is a combination of lectures and seminars in a present form.

Požadavky ke zkoušce

Poslední úprava: PhDr. Jiří Kocián, Ph.D. (20.09.2021)

Students have to present on the topic agreed on with the lecturer and course leader (40%).

To successfuly complete a course, they have to submit a term paper, 3000 words in length, which corresponds with the general standards of academic writing. (60%).

The students are graded A-F as total result for both parts in accordance with the Dean`s provision no. 20/2019, as follows:

91% and more => A
81-90% => B
71-80% => C
61-70% => D
51-60% => E
0-50% => F

Sylabus

Poslední úprava: PhDr. Jiří Kocián, Ph.D. (03.11.2021)

The teaching will begin with a third week of the semester, from October 11, 2021.

 

1)    11.10. Lecture - Introduction (syllabus of the course)

2)    18.10. Soviet Identity as ethnonational coexistence: Slavs versus Turkic speaking people of the USSR 

3)    25.10. Arts and culture as mediums of propaganda and a political tool

4)    1.11. Soviet powerhouses in political practises and promotion:  centre - periphery in the USSR

5)    8.11. Soviet influence on the satellite countries (with Maria Asavei as Guest Lecturer)

6)    15.11. Post-Soviet Migration and diasporas in transition: the pop music case

7)    22.11. Musical dissent alternatives to the state cultural policies in the East European transnational perspectives (Jiri Kocian as Guest lecturer)

8)    29.11. The Soviet-Afghani war and its impact on culture (Slavomir Horak as Guest lecturer) 

9)    6.12. Religion and secularism: the Soviet Union’s experience (Guest Lecturer Zilia Imamutdinova , Moscow, Arts Study Institute)

10)  13.12. Music and media as a tool of political propaganda in the Soviet and post-Soviet Turkmenistan (with Jamal Yazliyeva as a Guest lecturer)

11)  20.12. Gender and religions in the USSR: Central Asian case