MO5610
Themes in Russian Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Intellectual History
2016-2017
40
20
SCQF level 11
2
Academic year(s): 2016-2017
SCOTCAT credits : 40
ECTS credits : 20
Level : SCQF level 11
Semester: 2
Planned timetable:
This module serves as an introduction to Russian intellectual culture for postgraduate students taking a taught M.Litt. in Central and East European Studies. Based on a close reading of sources (in translation and/or in Russian), it analyses a number of key themes in Russian thought with reference to the socio-political contexts in which they first arose as well as their subsequent transformation in the Soviet era. The module also explores the ways in which some of the leit-motifs of pre-Revolutionary intellectual culture have more recently been recovered as a 'resource' by intellectuals and public figures in endeavors to re-articulate the 'authentic' nature of Russian culture in the aftermath of communism.