This course is available on the BA in History, BSc in Government and History, BSc in International Relations and History and BSc in Politics and History. This course is available as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students. May be taken by 3rd years, General Course students and as an outside option where regulations, timetabling constraints and teaching capacity permit.
This course is available on the BA in History, BSc in Government and History, BSc in International Relations and History and BSc in Politics and History. This course is available as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students. May be taken by 3rd years, General Course students and as an outside option where regulations, timetabling constraints and teaching capacity permit.
Students will engage with lecture content through asynchronous recorded lectures and synchronous live Q&A sessions each week. Students will be asked to work together to prepare in small groups in advance of each week?s class, focussing on primary sources, then discuss their findings and their relation to the week?s readings in the synchronous classes. The recorded presentations will provide another resource for students in advance of the class and will help students to develop the requisite set of skills (which are similar but not the same as a regular presentation); it will also help to mitigate the challenges of presentations for students with, for example, social anxiety considerations. There will be a reading week in the Michaelmas and the Lent terms.
Students will be required to write three essays, one of which will be done under examination conditions.
A full reading list will be provided at the start of the course. Useful introductory works include: E. Kimerling-Wirtschafter, Russia's Age of Serfdom; N. S. Kollman, The Russian Empire, 1450-1801; J. Hartley, A Social History of the Russian Empire 1650-1825; S. Dixon, The Modernization of Russia: 1676-1825; M. Raeff, Understanding Imperial Russia: State and Society in the Old Regime; J. Billington, The Icon and the Axe; An Interpretive History of Russian Culture; A. Kahan, The Plow, the Hammer and the Knout: An Economic History of 18th-Century Russia; P. Dukes, The Making of Russian Absolutism, 1613-1801; D. Saunders, Russia in the Age of Reaction and Reform, 1801-1881.
Presentation (20%) and class participation (15%) in the MT and LT. Take-home assessment (65%) in the ST.