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Russia's Political Culture in Transformation
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:4.00
Study Course Accepted:09.02.2024 10:16:45
Study Course Information | |||||||||
Course Code: | PZK_203 | LQF level: | Level 7 | ||||||
Credit Points: | 3.00 | ECTS: | 4.50 | ||||||
Branch of Science: | Politics | Target Audience: | Political Science | ||||||
Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
Course Supervisor: | Deniss Hanovs | ||||||||
Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
Structural Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences | ||||||||
The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
Contacts: | Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szfrsu[pnkts]lv | ||||||||
Study Course Planning | |||||||||
Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
Lectures (count) | 8 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 16 | ||||
Classes (count) | 6 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 12 | ||||
Total Contact Hours | 28 | ||||||||
Part-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
Lectures (count) | 8 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 16 | ||||
Classes (count) | 6 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 12 | ||||
Total Contact Hours | 28 | ||||||||
Study course description | |||||||||
Preliminary Knowledge: | Knowledge of Russian culture and history. | ||||||||
Objective: | To provide students with the knowledge of the transformation of political culture in Russia within last 300 years, to foster common debates on elements of political culture, to provide insight into the definition of political culture within the paradigm of cultural studies, which imply that Russian political culture is shaped by various elements of culture, such as arts, literature, religion. During the course students will be offered a chance to combine their knowledge of politics with new theoretical views and methods from cultural studies. The course consists of three parts: 1. General theoretical paradigms of cultural studies and political culture; 2. The development of Russia`s political culture and history, since the beginning of the 17th century; 3. The framing of political culture – the influence of various sectors of political culture. | ||||||||
Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
1 | The notion of political culture and its place in the theory of culture | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
2 | The notion of transformation in the concept of fluid modernity (Z. Bauman) | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
3 | How to analyze culture? The theoretical results of the cultural turns | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
4 | Postcolonial turn and performative turn in the analysis of political transformations | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
5 | Collective memory and history politics in the concept of transformation | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
6 | Analysis of Russia`s political processes in the media: phenomena chosen by students to analyse: democracy, state, minorities, pluralism, state leader, geopolitical priorities, construction of memories | Classes | 0.50 | auditorium | |||||
7 | East or West? The third space? Russian history and its factors | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
8 | Feudalism and rising absolutism in the 17th century. Muscovy state in the 17th century. Analysis of the image of Ivan the Terrible in the Soviet modernism movie by Serge Eisenstein | Classes | 0.50 | auditorium | |||||
9 | Westernization politics of Russian rulers in the early phase of the 18th century. Politics of Peter I in Europe | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
10 | Imperial discourse in Russian political culture. Bysanthinian state symbols and Western Roman Empire as political imagery. The “Greek project” of Catherine II | Classes | 0.50 | auditorium | |||||
11 | Enlightenment politics in Russia. Views and concepts of Western Enlightenment on Russia and civilization discourse. Larry Wolf`s concept will be applied and critically examined | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
12 | Nationalism in Russia. Empire and the nation in the nationalism discourse. Ethnic minorities | Lectures | 0.50 | auditorium | |||||
13 | Liberalism in Russia in the 19th century. Westerners and slavophils | Classes | 0.50 | auditorium | |||||
14 | The factor of religious culture. Orthodoxy and caesars imagery in the politics | Lectures | 0.50 | auditorium | |||||
15 | Russian religious philosophy and geopolitics. The concept of Leontyev. Postcolonial paradigm | Classes | 0.50 | auditorium | |||||
16 | Russian literature and dissidents` culture. From Radishev till Dovlatov | Lectures | 0.50 | auditorium | |||||
17 | The concept of monarchy in the political culture. The Romanovs and images of Soviet leaders. Putin and iconography of a ruler | Classes | 0.50 | auditorium | |||||
18 | Revolution and terror. 1917. Bolsheviks universalism and Stalin`s national bolshevism in the imperial discourse | Lectures | 0.50 | ||||||
19 | Traumatic collective experience and the politics of memory in contemporary Russia. War, catastrophy and victory | Classes | 0.50 | auditorium | |||||
20 | Democracy, Western politics and neo national movement. Entertainment culture and geopolitics | Classes | 0.50 | auditorium | |||||
Topic Layout (Part-Time) | |||||||||
No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
1 | The notion of political culture and its place in the theory of culture | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
2 | The notion of transformation in the concept of fluid modernity (Z. Bauman) | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
3 | How to analyze culture? The theoretical results of the cultural turns | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
4 | Postcolonial turn and performative turn in the analysis of political transformations | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
5 | Collective memory and history politics in the concept of transformation | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
6 | Analysis of Russia`s political processes in the media: phenomena chosen by students to analyse: democracy, state, minorities, pluralism, state leader, geopolitical priorities, construction of memories | Classes | 0.50 | auditorium | |||||
7 | East or West? The third space? Russian history and its factors | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
8 | Feudalism and rising absolutism in the 17th century. Muscovy state in the 17th century. Analysis of the image of Ivan the Terrible in the Soviet modernism movie by Serge Eisenstein | Classes | 0.50 | auditorium | |||||
9 | Westernization politics of Russian rulers in the early phase of the 18th century. Politics of Peter I in Europe | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
10 | Imperial discourse in Russian political culture. Bysanthinian state symbols and Western Roman Empire as political imagery. The “Greek project” of Catherine II | Classes | 0.50 | auditorium | |||||
11 | Enlightenment politics in Russia. Views and concepts of Western Enlightenment on Russia and civilization discourse. Larry Wolf`s concept will be applied and critically examined | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
12 | Nationalism in Russia. Empire and the nation in the nationalism discourse. Ethnic minorities | Lectures | 0.50 | auditorium | |||||
13 | Liberalism in Russia in the 19th century. Westerners and slavophils | Classes | 0.50 | auditorium | |||||
14 | The factor of religious culture. Orthodoxy and caesars imagery in the politics | Lectures | 0.50 | auditorium | |||||
15 | Russian religious philosophy and geopolitics. The concept of Leontyev. Postcolonial paradigm | Classes | 0.50 | auditorium | |||||
16 | Russian literature and dissidents` culture. From Radishev till Dovlatov | Lectures | 0.50 | auditorium | |||||
17 | The concept of monarchy in the political culture. The Romanovs and images of Soviet leaders. Putin and iconography of a ruler | Classes | 0.50 | auditorium | |||||
18 | Revolution and terror. 1917. Bolsheviks universalism and Stalin`s national bolshevism in the imperial discourse | Lectures | 0.50 | auditorium | |||||
19 | Traumatic collective experience and the politics of memory in contemporary Russia. War, catastrophy and victory | Classes | 0.50 | auditorium | |||||
20 | Democracy, Western politics and neo national movement. Entertainment culture and geopolitics | Classes | 0.50 | auditorium | |||||
Assessment | |||||||||
Unaided Work: | The knowledge acquired in the course is tested during seminars, discussions on selected texts. Skills are acquired and evaluated by creating reports on course topics, submitting reports in e-studies. In the final examination, the student presents his / her report and participates in a discussion with colleagues on the problem issue analyzed in the report. | ||||||||
Assessment Criteria: | • Participation in the seminar on the selected course literature (min. 50 pages from the e-learning catalog) makes up 40% of the final course evaluation. • Execution of independent work tasks in the form of a report – 40% of the final assessment. • The exam assesses the student's ability to participate in a discussion of the results of the report – 20% of the final assessment of the course. | ||||||||
Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam (Written) | ||||||||
Final Examination (Part-Time): | Exam (Written) | ||||||||
Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
Knowledge: | Students will explain the stages of the development of Russian political culture. Students will describe the most important stages of the transformation of Russian political culture and the dynamics of their development over the last 300 years. Students will distinguish the concepts of cultural theories from the concepts and principles of political culture, as well as compare them. | ||||||||
Skills: | Students will independently analyze texts on the development of Russian political culture over the past 300 years, critically selecting sources of information, presenting their conclusions and answering questions during seminars. Students will explain the dynamics of Russian political culture transformation in an argumentative and in-depth way and anticipate the development trends of Russian political culture in the perspective. | ||||||||
Competencies: | Students will develop research based on interdisciplinary scientific literature, combining theoretical concepts of cultural and political science and applying them in the study of empirical elements. Students will interpret the assumptions made in theoretical knowledge in the context of Russia's current transformation processes. | ||||||||
Bibliography | |||||||||
No. | Reference | ||||||||
Required Reading | |||||||||
1 | Stephen Welch. (2013). The Theory of Political Culture. Oxford University Press: Oxford. | ||||||||
2 | Stephanie Lawson. (2011). Cosmopolitan Pluralism: Beyond the Cultural Turn. In: Cosmopolitan Civil Societies Journal, Vol.3, No.3. pp. 27-46. | ||||||||
3 | Erika Rappaport. (2008). Imperial Possessions, Cultural Histories, and the Material Turn: Response. In: Victorian Studies / Volume 50, no. 2, pp. 289-296. | ||||||||
4 | Gubenko I., Hanovs D., Malahovskis V. (eds.). (2016). The New Heroes. The Old Victims. Politics of memory in Russia and the Baltics. Riga: Zinatne. | ||||||||
5 | Neil Robinson. (2017). Russian Neo-patrimonialism and Putin’s ‘Cultural Turn’ In: EUROPE-ASIA STUDIES, 2017 Vol. 69, No. 2, March, pp. 348–366 | ||||||||
6 | Jarmo Kotilaine and Marshall Poe (eds.) (2004.) Modernizing Muscovy. Reform and social change in seventeenth-century Russia. RoutledgeCurzon: London. | ||||||||
7 | Paul Bushkovitsch. (2004). Peter the Great. The Struggle for Power, 1671-1725. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. | ||||||||
8 | Kelly O` Neill. (2017). Claiming Crimea: A History of Catherine the Great`s Southern Empire. Yale University Press: London. | ||||||||
9 | Gubenko I., Hanovs D., Malahovskis V. (eds.). (2016). The New Heroes. The Old Victims. Politics of memory in Russia and the Baltics. Riga: Zinatne. The article by Deniss Hanovs | ||||||||
10 | Eric Lohr (2003). Nationalizing the Russian empire. The campaign against enemy Alien during World War I. Harvard University Press: London. | ||||||||
11 | Alexei Miller. (2008). The Romanov Empire and Nationalism. Essays in the methodology of historical research. CEU Press: New York. | ||||||||
12 | Candida Yates. (2015). The Play of Political Culture, Emotion and Identity. Palgrave Macmillan: London. | ||||||||
13 | Robert A. Segal. (2012). Clifford Geertz’s Interpretive Approach to Religion. In: Religion Compass 6/12 (2012): pp. 511–524. | ||||||||
14 | Ben White. (2007) Clifford Geertz: Singular Genius of Interpretive Anthropology. In: Development and Change 38(6), (2007), pp. 1187–1208 | ||||||||
15 | Robert van Voren. (2009). On Dissidents and Madness. From The Soviet Union of Leonid Brezhnev to the “Soviet Union” of Vladimir Putin. Rodopi: New York. | ||||||||
16 | Anandam Kavoori and Kalyani Chadha. (2009). The Cultural Turn in International Communication. In:Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media/June, pp. 336-346. | ||||||||
17 | Hanovs D., Gubenko I. (eds.). (2018) Memory – access denied? Political landscapes of memory and inclusion in contemporary Europe. Versions, tendencies and analytical novelties. Riga: Zinatne, 2018. – pp. 95-115 | ||||||||
Additional Reading | |||||||||
1 | Michael Haynes and Rumy Husan. (2003). A Century of State Murder? Death and Policy in Twentieth-Century Russia. Pluto Press: London. | ||||||||
2 | Sheila Fitzpatrick. (2000). Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s. Oxford University Press: Oxford. | ||||||||
3 | Robert Horvath. (2005.) The Legacy of Soviet Dissent. Dissidents, democratisation and radical nationalism in Russia. Routledge: London. | ||||||||
4 | Dvora Yanow and Peregrine Schwartz-Shea (eds.) (2006). Interpretation and Method Empirical Research Methods and the Interpretive Turn. M.E.Sharpe: Armonk, New York | ||||||||
5 | Alexander Polunov. (2005). Russia in the Nineteenth century: Autocracy, Reform, and Social Change, 1814-1914. M.E.Sharpe: Armonk, New York | ||||||||
6 | Nicholas V. Riasavovsky. (1985) The Image of Peter the Great in Russian History and Thought. Oxford University Press: Oxford | ||||||||
7 | David R. Marples. (2002). Motherland Russia in the 20th Century. Pearson Education Limited: London. | ||||||||
8 | Victoria E. Bonnell, Lynn Hunt. (eds.) (1999). Beyond the Cultural Turn. New Directions in the Study of Society and Culture.University of California Press: Berkeley and Los Angeles. | ||||||||
9 | Patrick Brantlinger. (2002). A Response to Beyond the Cultural Turn. In: American Historical Review, pp. 1500-1511. | ||||||||
10 | Richard Handler. (2002). Cultural Theory in History Today. In: American Historical Review December, pp. 1512-1520. | ||||||||
11 | Zygmunt Bauman. Liquid modernity. (2000). Polity: London. | ||||||||
Other Information Sources | |||||||||
1 | Journal of Cultural studies. Available from: https://journals.sagepub.com/home/ics v | ||||||||
2 | Journal of Political Culture. Available from: https://www.springer.com/journal/10767 |