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PLEASE NOTE: This module will not be available in 2018-19
UCL Credits: 15 | Total Learning Hours: 188 | ECTS: 7.5 |
Level: Advanced | Course Unit: 0.5 | Term 1 |
Module Coordinator: Dr Thomas Marsden Taught By: Dr Thomas Marsden To find out more about this module, please contact the Module Coordinator |
| Weekly Contact Hours: 2.0 (1 hour lecture and 1 hour tutorial per week) |
| Prerequisites: None |
| Compulsory Module for: N/A |
Summative Assessment
Coursework Essay 2500 words (50%)
Coursework Essay 2500 words (50%)
Formative Assessment
Seminar presentation summarising an article or document
Module Outline
The decades between the reform era of the 1860s and the overthrow of the monarchy in 1917 mark one of the most vibrant and interesting periods in Russian history, a time of social change, cultural creativity, and political conflict. This course combines a chronological and thematic survey of these decades, exploring social, cultural, and political transformations across key spheres, from the autocracy to the revolutionary underground, the landed estate to the family, the novel to the university. While it considers how this period ultimately set the stage for the revolutions of 1917, it also seeks to challenge a linear narrative that subsumes this period into its revolutionary finale.
Indicative Texts
- C. Evtuhov, D. Goldfrank, L. Hughes, and R. Stites, A History of Russia: Peoples, Legends, Events, Forces (2004).
- D. Saunders, Russia in the Age of Reaction and Reform, 1801-1881 (1992)
- H. Rogger, Russia in the Age of Modernisation and Revolution, 1881-1917 (1983)
- G. A. Hosking, Russia: People and Empire, 1552-1917 (1997)
AFFILIATES |
Affiliates | Course Code | Assessment | ECTS |
| Full Year Affiliates | Register for SEHI7011 | As Above | 7.5 |
| Affiliates here for Term 1 only | Register for SEHI7011 | As Above | 7.5 |
Please note: This outline is accurate at the time of publication. Minor amendments may be made prior to the start of the academic year.