Putin´s Russia - JTM320

• Title: Putin´s Russia
• Guaranteed by: Department of Russian and East European Studies (23-KRVS)
• Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
• Actual: from 2022
• Semester: winter
• E-Credits: 6
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:1/1, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: 26 / unknown (24)
• Min. number of students: 10
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment; priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
• Guarantor: Mgr. Luboš Veselý
• Teacher(s): Mgr. Luboš Veselý
• Class: Courses for incoming students
• Incompatibility : JMM025

Annotation

Last update: Mgr. Jiřina Tomečková (26.09.2023)

The course focus is on the main topics of domestic and foreign development of Russia under president Putin including the current war against Ukraine.

Aim of the course

Last update: Mgr. Jiřina Tomečková (26.09.2023)

Students will become familiar with key topics related to developments in Russia under president Putin (e. g. internal dynamics of the regime, structures of governance, situation of civil society, foreign policy).

Course completion requirements

Last update: Bc. Sára Lochmanová (05.10.2023)

The final grade will be awarded in accordance with Dean’s Provision on using A-F grading scale at UK FSV (https://www.fsv.cuni.cz/opatreni-dekanky-c-172018aj).

Course requirements:

1. Active participation  – 15 %

2. Weekly reading summary – 20 %

3. Oral presentation – 20 - 25 mins – 30 %

4. Final paper/Essay – 10 pgs – 35 %

The final grade will be awarded in accordance with  Dean’s Provision on using A-F grading scale at UK FSV (https://www.fsv.cuni.cz/opatreni-dekanky-c-172018aj).

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Literature

Last update: Mgr. Jiřina Tomečková (26.09.2023)

Anderson, John. "Putin and the Russian Orthodox Church: Asymmetric Symphonia?" Journal of International Affairs, Fall/Winter 2007, vol. 61, no. 1.

Arutunyan, Anna. The Media in Russia. Open University Press, 2009. Introduction, chpt. 1.

Dannreuther, Roland. "Islamic radicalization in Russia: an assesment." International Affairs, 86: 1, 2010.

Gessen, Masha. The Man without a face: the unlikely rise of Vladimir Putin. Chpt. 1. pp 11-22 (Slovanská knihovna)

Giles, Keir. "Can Russia switch off the net?" The World Today. October, November 2014.

Goscilo, Helena. Putin as a celebrity and cultural icon. New York: Routledge, 2013. Chapter 1. pp. 6 - 37.

Hill, Fiona. Mr. Putin. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2013. Chpt. 1+2. pp 1-34. (JINONICE, ebrary)

Hiski Haukkala and Nicu Popescu (eds). Russian futures: Horizon 2025. Institute for Security Studies. REPORT Nº 26 — March 2016.

Kagarlitsky, Boris. Russia under Yeltsin and Putin : Neo-Liberal Autocracy. London: Pluto Press, 2002. Chp. 9. pp 223 - 250. (JINONICE, ebrary)

Kramer, Mark. The Clampdown on Internet Activities in Russia and the Implications for Western Policy. PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo No. 350. September 2014

Monaghan, Andrew. The vertikal: power and authority in Russia.International Affairs, 2012.

Oates, Sarah. Television, Democracy and Elections in Russia. Routledge, 2006. Chpt. 8

Orttung, Robert. Putin´s federal reform package.

Petrov, Nikolay. From a Normal Country to Normal Authoritarianism. PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo No. 275, 2013.

Petrov, Nikolay. From Managed Democracy to Sovereign Democracy. PONARS Policy Memo No. 396, 2005.

Pirani, Simon. Change in Putin’s Russia: power, money and people. London: Pluto Press, 2010. Chpt. 8 (Ebrary)

Shekhovtsov, Anton. “Aleksandr Dugin’s Neo-Eurasianism and the Russian-Ukrainian War”, in Mark Bassin, Gonzalo Pozo-Martin (eds), The Politics of Eurasianism: Identity, Popular Culture and Russia’s Foreign Policy (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2017), pp. 185-204.

Shevtsova, Lilia. Putin's Russia (Revised and Expanded Edition). Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2005. Chpt. 1. pp 7 – 43. (JINONICE, ebrary)

Umland, Andreas. "Alexander Dugin and Moscow´s New Right Radical Intellectual Circles“, in: Europolity, vol. 10, no. 2, 2016

Warhola, James W. "Religion and Politics under Putin Administration" Journal of Church and State. 2005

Weiss, Michael. Rights in Russia. Navalny and the Opposition. World Affairs. November/December, 2013.

White, Stephen; Hale, Henry E.; Sakwa, Richard. Developments in Russian Politics 7. Duke University Press, 2009. Chpts. 1 - 6.

Yatsyk Alexandra. Promoting Islam within the “Russian World”. PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo No. 383. August 2015.

Zygar, Mikhail. All the Kremlin´s Men. New York: Public Affairs, 2016. Conclusion

 

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