HIST 3000 is also offered in Spring 2024
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Spring 2024 | HIST 3000 Section 001: New Topics in History -- Russia versus Ukraine: Past and Present (67565)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 6 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
Topics Course
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Tue,
Thu 09:45AM - 11:00AM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 240
- Enrollment Status:
Open (33 of 40 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Courses on new topics in history, historical topics related to current events, and other special subjects. Contact the History department for current listings.
- Class Notes:
- The goal of this course is to build an understanding of century-long and twisted relations between two East-Slavic people - the Russians and the Ukrainians. In this course we will learn in details about the controversial coexistence of two neighboring people beginning from the prehistory and the creation of the 1st united East-Slavic statehood named Kievan Rus, and ending with a full-scale ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine. Knowledge and understanding of the ups and downs in Russian-Ukrainian relations for more than a thousand years, their challenges, labyrinths and often paradoxes will make it possible to explain the historical non-coincidence of the current bloodiest and largest conflict in the Post-Soviet space, which has already led to a global catastrophe and complete breakdown the world order that existed after the end of the World War II. Instead of providing an all-encompassing overview of both Russian and Ukrainian history from early Middle Ages up to this day, this course is focused through a detailed examination of a series of the key topics and events. Topics include: prehistory; the rise and decline of Kievan Rus; separate history of Ukrainians and Russians in the 14th - mid 17th centuries; the Ukrainian national liberation revolution and the beginning of Moscow expansion to the west; Russia and Ukraine in 18th century; Ukraine between the two empires at the end of 18th to the beginning of 20th centuries; the World War 1 and its consequences for Russia and Ukraine; Ukraine between the Soviet Union and Poland in the 1920s - 1930s; the Russians and the Ukrainians through the prism of the World War II; Russian and Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republics since 1945 till the collapse of the USSR; Russian Federation and independent Ukraine on the way to the full-scale war: events, stages, perspectives.
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/67565/1243
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