All courses numbered 500 and above are graduate courses.
Undergraduates need to submit a course permit to enroll.
HIST 620 Historiography of Imperial and Soviet Russia
Platt
Taught as schedule allows (consult the Course Directory)
The course is designed for graduate students with at least advanced reading knowledge of Russian: seminar discussion will be conducted in English, but a fair amount of reading will be assigned in Russian. We will cover the development of Russian historical research and writing from the start of the eighteenth century to the present, focusing on major texts, schools and figures. Alongside this traditional historiographical architecture, segments of the course will be devoted as well to a variety of theoretical models and approaches to research, including: institutional history, cultural history, poetics of history, philosophy of history, "invention of tradition," trauma studies, and others.
