The melting pot of Eastern Slavic cultures: history - mentality - social policy

general courses

Basic knowledge of the Slavic (Eastern) area and suggested (but not obligatory) knowledge of the basics of the Russian language.

Classroom

The subject of analysis is the countries of the Eastern Slavic area (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus), whose historical heritage was shaped in different ways. This has also resulted in differences in mentality in each of the above-mentioned countries and in different regions of the Russian Federation.

When did Stalin allow Orthodox processions? Who was the Tsar of Moscow? Which nation is the most patient? How many secret cities are there in Russia? When did Zelenski perform in front of Putin? Is it worth singing about power? Is Russia in for a social revolution? Is Lukashenko needed by European politicians? Why is 'Special Operation' a cultural schism? What do people laugh at in cabarets? When is a national bond formed? What are overt and covert social needs?

Answering these questions and understanding the contemporary implications for Eastern Slavic culture by analysing the causal connections arising from history, politics and the shaping communities is the subject of this course.

The subject of the analysis is the Eastern Slavic countries (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus), whose historical heritage was shaped in different ways. This has also resulted in differences in mentality in each of the above-mentioned countries or even in the regions of the Russian Federation, which have been preserved despite functioning for many decades as part of the Soviet Union. Border changes numbering in the hundreds of kilometres, resettlements, purges, atheisation, political revolutions and other experiments on societies have clashed for centuries with tradition, faith, ethnic values, aspirations and national liberation movements, producing a huge historical-social-political baggage for the contemporary situation in this region of Europe.

When did Stalin allow Orthodox processions? Who was the Tsar of Moscow?Which nation is the most patient? How many secret cities are there in Russia? When did Zelenski perform in front of Putin? Is it worth singing about power? Is Russia in for a social revolution? Is Lukashenko needed by European politicians? Why is 'Special Operation' a cultural schism? What do people laugh at in cabarets? When is a national bond formed? What are overt and covert social needs?

Answering these questions and understanding the contemporary implications for Eastern Slavic culture by analysing the causal links arising from history, politics and the shaping communities is the subject of this course.

Outline of thematic schedule:

1. historical-social block (from the history of Rus, Muscovites, "locals" and major historical milestones)

2. armed geopolitics on the bottom of Russia in the XIX-XXI centuries

3. Black humour, creativity and patience - toughness of character or social marasm of the area of the b. USSR

4 Imperial pride

5. the "Lichen 1990s" and the formation of new social structures

6. modern oligarchy and the market economy

7. the activities of A. Navalny and his Foundation, the problem of "inoagents" in contemporary legislation (who among celebrities has been recognised as a foreign intelligence agent)

8. stereotypes of Eastern Slavs (about themselves)

9. the first day of Poles in Moscow/Petersburg/Minsk/Kiev

10. Rusek, Rusin, Radzianin and homo sowietikus. What is the "Russkij Mir"?

11. "couch forces" from 2014 to the present day

12. what about this Moldova/Transnistria? LNR and DNR and the socio-propaganda image of fascists from Ukraine and orcs from Russia

13. media and propaganda in Russia and Belarus and Ukraine (do you have to have your own TV to become president?)

14. cabaret organisations KWN (Klub vesolykh i nahodchivykh, Russia) and LS (Liga smikha, Ukraine) - talent forge or tool of media expansion?

15. discussion of the credit project