HISTORY 1290 THE HISTORY OF THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE

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DRAFT SYLLABUS 1/5 HISTORY 1290 THE HISTORY OF THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE Harvard University, Spring 2015 MWF, 10am CGIS South 354 Prof. Kelly O Neill koneill@fas.harvard.

1 DRAFT SYLLABUS 1/5 HISTORY 1290 THE HISTORY OF THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE Harvard University, Spring 2015 MWF, 10am CGIS South 354 Prof. Kelly O Neill koneill@fas.harvard.edu CGIS S-329 Office hours: TBD Megan Duncan-Smith (TF) duncansmith@fas.harvard.edu Course Description This course will explore the history of Russia from the early days of imperial expansion in the sixteenth century to Topics include the nature of autocratic authority, Russian Orthodoxy, and the integration of non-russian peoples and territories. We will explore a wide variety of technologies of imperial rule (mapmaking, censorship, religious policy, ethnographic description), as well as the relationship between subjects of the empire (elites, peasants, and everyone in between) and the built and natural environments they inhabited. No prior knowledge of Russian history is required. *Please note* that while there will be a lecture component, many of our class meetings will be devoted to discussing and analyzing the readings and/or workshopping research projects. You will have the opportunity not only to write, both with frequency and at length, but also to explore multimedia approaches to analyzing the past. (Undergraduate) Requirements Attendance and participation (15%) Blog posts (20%, brief weekly responses to readings and other prompts) Quizzes (15%, lowest score to be dropped) Individual research project (50%). The project portfolio will include 1) formal writing, 2) choice of annotation/visualization component, and 3) presentation and peer review. Occasional blog assignments and course meetings will be devoted to project development. Important Notes Laptops are not allowed in lecture. Exceptions only with instructor s consent. Section attendance: You may miss one regular class meeting and one section meeting without incurring a penalty. Additional absences must be cleared with Megan ahead of time and will require a brief response paper or comparable assignment. Office hours: You are required to meet with both Prof. O Neill and Megan at least once prior to Week 6.

2 DRAFT SYLLABUS 2/5 Passing the course: Failure to complete any of the course requirements will automatically result in a failing grade. Submitting your work: Blog posts are due on Mondays at 10pm. Responses are due Thursdays at 10pm. Late work will drop 1/3 of a grade automatically and 1/3 each subsequent day. Late work will not be accepted after 3 days. Though I take no pleasure enforcing it, this rule is hard and fast. Please plan ahead! Extensions will be granted in appropriate circumstances and when approval is sought in advance of the deadline. Accommodation: Students wishing to arrange special facilities or consideration are welcome to present the appropriate documentation from the Accessible Education Office to Prof. O Neill within three weeks of the beginning of class. Academic Integrity: Any instance of cheating or plagiarism will be handled in accordance with Harvard policy. On collaboration see the Academic Integrity statement on the isite. Finding the Readings All readings are on reserve at Lamont, via online reserves, or on the course site. You are required to purchase a new (available at the COOP) or used copy of the following: Evtuhov et al (eds.), A History of Russia: Peoples, Legends, Events, Forces (2004) Kivelson & Neuberger (eds.), Picturing Russia: Explorations in Visual Culture (2008) Gary Marker (ed.), Days of a Russian Noblewoman: The Memories of Anna Labzina, (2001) Leo Tolstoy, Great Short Works of Leo Tolstoy (Perennial Classics, 2004) SCHEDULE Week 1: Beginnings Monday, Jan 26: Origins, Myths, and Legacies Wednesday, Jan 28: The Landscape of Russian History Friday, Jan 30: no section Richard Pipes, Russia under the Old Regime, The Environment and its Consequences, 1-26 Chappe d'auteroche, A journey into Siberia, made by order of the King of France (1770): Week 2: The Birth of an Empire Monday, Feb 2: Conquest and Terror under Ivan IV Wednesday, Feb 4: Into the Land of Darkness Friday, Feb 6: Daily Life in Muscovy Evtuhov/Stites, chapters 5-8 A. M. Kurbskii, Prince A. M. Kurbskii s History of Ivan IV: Picturing Russia, chapters 5-8 Carolyn Pouncy (trans.), The Domostroi: rules for Russian households in the time of Ivan the Terrible: Week 3: Hierarchies, Networks, and Autocratic Authority Monday, Feb 9: Orthodox Politics and Piety Wednesday, Feb 11: Bloodlines and Pecking Orders

3 DRAFT SYLLABUS 3/5 Friday, Feb 13: Slaves and Serfs Picturing Russia, chapter 9 Evtuhov/Stites, chapters 9-10 Eve Levin, From Corpse to Cult in Early Modern Russia, in Valerie Kivelson and Robert Greene (eds.), Orthodox Russia: belief and practice under the tsars: Valerie Kivelson, Cartography, Autocracy, and State Powerlessness: The Uses of Maps in Early Modern Russia, Imago Mundi 51 (1999): Richard Hellie (trans., ed.), The Muscovite Law Code (Ulozhenie) of 1649: Week 4: The Petrine Revolution? Monday, Feb 16: Presidents Day (university holiday) Wednesday, Feb 18: The Great Northern War Friday, Feb 20: Sturgeon, Vodka, and Cultural Revolution Picturing Russia, chapters Evtuhuv/Stites, chapters Darra Goldstein, Gastronomic Reforms under Peter the Great: Toward a Cultural History of Russian Food, Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas 48, no.4 (2000): Proclamation on the Introduction of the New Calendar Basil Dmytryshyn, Modernization of Russia under Peter I and Catherine II: Week 5: The Golden Century Monday, Feb 23: Science, Espionage, and Sea Cows Wednesday, Feb 25: Noble Culture and the Imperial Court Friday, Feb 27: Mapping the life of Anna Labzina Picturing Russia, chapter 13 Evtuhov/Stites, chapter Days of a Russian Noblewoman: The Memories of Anna Labzina, : Week 6: Taming the Steppe Monday, March 2: Russia in the Age of Catherine II Wednesday, March 4: The Russian-Ottoman Wars Friday, March 6: The Annexation of Crimea Douglas Smith, Love and Conquest: Gavrila Derzhavin, Ode to the Wise Princess Felitsa Week 7: Empire of Peasants Monday, March 9: Life in the izba Wednesday, March 11: The Great Debate Friday, March 13: Picturing Russia, chapter 14 Alexander N. Radishchev, Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow: 40-43, , Ivan Turgenev, A Sportsman s Sketches. [Any edition will do, but the full text of Constance Garnett s 1895 translation is available via Google Books.] Read Khor and Kalinich, Raspberry Spring, The District Doctor

4 DRAFT SYLLABUS 4/5 [Spring Break] Week 8: Russia on the European Stage Monday, March 23: Cossacks on the Streets of Paris Wednesday, March 25: Decembrists & the Birth of the Russian Idea Friday, March 27: Petersburg as imperial city Evtuhov/Stites, chapters 16 & 17 Marquis de Custine, Letters from Russia: & Alexander Pushkin, The Bronze Horseman Souvenirs de Saint-Petersbourg Film Screening: Kavkazskii plennik (Prisoner of the Caucasus) (Sergei Bodrov, 1996) Week 9: Nicholas I and the Defense of Order Monday, March 30: Cholera and the Rise of Tsarist Bureaucracy Wednesday, April 1: Conquest of the Caucasus Friday, April 3: Evtuhov/Stites, chapter 20 Nikolai Gogol, The Overcoat Leo Tolstoy, Hadji Murad Week 10: A New Society Monday, April 6: The Tsar-Liberator and his Great Reforms Wednesday, April 8: The Rise of the Province Friday, April 10: Eating, Drinking, and Making Merry Picturing Russia, chapters 17-19, 21, Evtuhov/Stites, chapters Joan Neuberger, Stories of the Street: Hooliganism in the St. Petersburg Popular Press, Slavic Review 48, no.2 (1989): Varvara Kashevarova-Rudneva, M.D., An Autobiography in Clyman & Vowles (eds.), Russia Through Women s Eyes: James von Geldern, Louise McReynolds (eds.), Entertaining Tsarist Russia: tales, songs, plays, movies, jokes, ads, and images from Russian urban life: Alexander II, Emancipation Manifesto Week 11: Nation, Religion, and the Multiethnic Empire Monday, April 13: The Trouble with Little Russians Wednesday, April 15: Central Asia and the Muslim Question Friday, April 17: The Census of 1897 Picturing Russia, chapters 15, 16, 20, 22 Evtuhov/Stites, chapters V. G. Belinsky, Letter to Nikolai Gogol, 1847 Juliette Cadiot, Searching for Nationality: Statistics and National Categories at the end of the Russian Empire, Russian Review 64, no.3 (2005): James Cracraft (ed.), Major Problems:

5 DRAFT SYLLABUS 5/5 Jeff Sahadeo, "Epidemic and Empire: Ethnicity, Class, and "Civilization" in the 1892 Tashkent Cholera Riot," Slavic Review 64, no.1 (2005): Mixed Marriage in the Russian Empire Week 12: Railroads, Reactionaries and Revolutionaries Monday, April 20: The Trans-Siberian Railroad and the Trouble in Manchuria Wednesday, April: 22: 1905 Friday, April 24: Picturing Russia, chapters Evtuhov/Stites, chapters Konstantin Pobedonostsev, The Ideologist of Russian Reaction V. I. Lenin, What is to be Done? (1902) Workers Petition, 1905 Manifesto of October 17, 1905 Week 13: End of Empire Monday, April 27: Russia in the First World War Wednesday, April 29: 1917 Evtuhov/Stites, chapters 29 & 30 Peter Holquist, What's so Revolutionary about the Russian Revolution? in Russian Modernity: Politics, Knowledge, Practices, ed. David L. Hoffman and Yanni Kotsonis (2000): Richard Pipes, Did the Russian Revolution Have to Happen? American Scholar 63, no.2 (1994):

History 048: The Rise and Fall of the Russian Empire: Imperial Russia, Spring 2016

1 History 048: The Rise and Fall of the Russian Empire: Imperial Russia, 1689-1917 Spring 2016 Professor Peter Holquist (holquist@sas.upenn.edu) Office: College Hall 208-D Office hours: Mondays, 12-1:30PM;