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Nation and Memory in Russia, Poland and Ukraine, 1800 to the present

Schedule 2021/22

LECTURES

SEMINARS

 

Autumn Term

There will be no (live) lecture and no seminar session in week 1, but you will listen to two introductory videocasts. The first videocast will be an introduction to the module (PPT), the second videocast is on the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. The videocasts will be available on Moodle.

1. History and the Present: the conflict in Ukraine PPT

Some reading: A) The annexation of Crimea and the war in Ukraine  

Week 1

2. Nation and Memory PPT

B) Theoretical Approaches

Week 2

3. Russia's Mission PPT

C) The Disputed Past

Week 3

4. Poland's Misfortune PPT

D) The Glorified Past

Week 4

5. Ukraine's Struggle PPT

E) The Contested Past

Week 5

READING WEEK

Week 6

 

6. Peasants into ... (Russians, Ukrainians, Poles) PPT

F) Empires, Nationalists and the Peasantry

Week 7

7. Nation and Literature PPT

G) Reading Clubs and National Poets

Week 8

8. Nation and Art PPT

H) History Painting and National Styles 

Week 9

9. Nation and Music PPT (20/21)
I) National Operas, Anthems and Folk Songs Week 10

 

Spring Term

10. And what about the Jews? PPT

J) Assimilation, Zionism and Anti-Semitism

Week 1

11. The Great War PPT

K) Going to War

Week 2

12. The Russian Civil War PPT

L) Nationalism vs. Socialism

Week 3

13. The Polish-Ukrainian War PPT

M) War and Nation Building

Week 4

14. War Remembrance PPT

N) The Political Cult of the Dead

Week 5

READING WEEK

 

Week 6

15. Soviet nationality policy PPT

O) The Ukrainian Famine

Week 7

16. Poland between the wars PPT

P) Minority Policy and Anti-Semitism

Week 8

17. Bloodlands: Atrocities and mass murder in the Second World War PPT

Q) Survivor Testimonies

Week 9

18. Memory conflicts PPT
R) Giving National Meaning to War Week 10

 

Summer Term

19. Post-Memory PPT

S) The Next Generation: (Re-) Visiting Lviv and Czernowitz

Week 1

20) Russian, Polish and Ukrainian self-images today 2021/22 PPT

T ) How Russians, Poles and Ukrainians see themselves

Week 2

Revision ppt     Week 3 or 4

 


Motherland Monument, Kiev

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