1-3:Dr. 2-  vera kaplan- 

The course will be devoted to an examination of the historical process and events that took place in Russia in the “long” nineteenth century. Our initial aims are to explore the impact of the French revolution on Russia and what happened to the ideas of liberalism when they were appropriated by the Russian intellectual elite; to reveal what was the nature of Tsarism as an autocratic monarchy which constantly initiated reforms but rejected any changes in its own structure; to analyze the main characteristics of the Russian society; to look at Russia as an empire;  and to explain why the intense debate on Russian national identity and Russia’s place in Europe so deeply engaged Russia’s nineteenth-century intelligentsia.

The course sources will include literary of the nineteenth century  -  the “golden age” of the Russian culture.

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2- Prof.Bili Melman

The “Introduction to the Long Nineteenth Century”, covering the era between the Industrial and French Revolutions and the outbreak of WW1,  may serve as a useful basis for further studies in  modern history. The course focuses on key issues in modern European history, such as the rise of modern states and nations, the spread of modern technologies, industrialization, urbanization, the emergence of modern political world-views and politics, the rise of the modern empires, modern patterns of work and leisure, modern notions of gender and the modern family. The course introduces you to a variety of sources—written (diplomatic, journalistic, literary and persona) and visual—as well as to different approaches to the history of the modern century and its analyses.