Riot on the Ark: civil war and national outskirts of the former Russian Empire 1916-1924

general courses

In the years 1916-1924, many nations of Russia gained the experience of sovereignization, which contributed to the growth of national self-awareness.

Remote learning

At the beginning of the 20th century, the Russian Empire remained a multinational state in which only a small part of national movements had a mass character. The topic of the classes is the analysis of ethnic conflicts during the fall of the Empire, which became an arena of sharp military-political confrontation and civil war. During the classes, we will try to show the specificity of national movements in various regions of Russia, their place in the all-Russian balance of political forces, similarities and differences between various trends within national movements, as well as relations with various groups of the anti-Bolshevik camp.

I. The national and state structure of Russia at the beginning of the 20th century.

II. Anti-imperial revolution. Ethnic conflicts and the fall of the Russian Empire

III.Germany and the problem of independence of the nations of the former Russian Empire during World War I.

IV. The Russian question at the Paris Peace Conference.

V. Sovereignization processes of the nations of the former Russian Empire during the civil war

VI. Bolshevik national policy

Bohler J. Wojna domowa. Nowe spojrzenie na odrodzenie Polski. Kraków, 2018.

Borodziej Wł., Górny M. Nasza wojna. T. II. Narody 1917-1923. Warszawa, 2018.

Gierowska-Kałłaur J. Stanisław Bułak-Bałachowicz. Postać, która mogła połączyć narody byłego Wielkiego Księstwa Litewskiego, a jednak ich nie połączyła // Acta Baltico-Slavica. 2017. Vol. 41. Str. 77-155.

Karpus Z. Wschodni sojusznicy Polski w wojnie 1920 roku: Oddziały wojskowe ukraińskie, rosyjskie, kozackie i białoruskie w Polsce w latach 1919–1920. Torun, 1999.

Lewandowski J. Federalizm. Litwa i Białoruś w polityce obozu belwederskiego. Warszawa, 1962.

Liulevicius V.G. War Land on the Eastern Front. Culture, National Identity and German Occupation in World War I. Cambridge, 2004.

Łatyszonek O. Bialoruskie formacje wojskowe 1917-1923. Balystok, 1995.

Hroch M. Social Precondition of National Revival in Europe. A Comparative Analysis of the Social Composition of Patriotic Groups among the Smaller European Nations. Cambridge; London; New York, 1985

Nowak A. Polska i trzy Rosje: studium polityki wschodniej Józefa Piłsudskiego (do kwietnia 1920 roku ). Wydawnictwo Arcana. Kraków. 2001.

Pipes R. The Formation of Soviet Union. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997.

Sanborn J. Imperial Apocalypse: The Great War and the Destruction of the Russian Empire. New York; Oxford, 2014.

Snyder T. The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569—1999. New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2004. Reynolds M.A. Shattering Empires: The Clash and Collapse of the Ottoman and Russian Empires 1908—1918. Cambridge, 2011.

Булдаков В.П. Хаос и этнос. Этнические конфликты в России, 1917—1918 гг. Условия возникновения, хроника, комментарий, анализ. М., 2010.

Буттино М. Революция наоборот. Средняя Азия между падением царской империи и образованием СССР. М., 2007.

Верстюк В.Ф., Горобець В.М., Толочко О.П. Украiнськi проекти в Росiйськiй iмперii. Киïв, 2004. Каппелер А. Россия — многонациональная империя. Возникновение, история, распад. М., 2000.

Национальные окраины Российской империи. Становление и развитие системы управления. М., 1997.

Новая имперская история Северной Евразии. Казань, 2017. Ч. 1, 2.

Ціхаміраў А.В. Беларусь у сістэме міжнародных адносін перыяду пасляваеннага ўладкавання Еўропы і польска-савецкай вайны (1918—1921 гг.). Минск, 2003.

As a result of the lectures:

listeners get the opportunity to learn how almost a decade of interconnected fratricidal conflicts not only led to the fall of one Empire, but also influenced the rise of another in its place.

The acquired subject knowledge will help you understand the influence of external and internal factors on the formation of contemporary nationalisms.

written exam

Skills:

- has own view on the consciousness of national political elites

- be able to present national movements in the context of Eastern European nationalisms and mutual relations between them

- be able to justify his own opinion (positive or critical) regarding today's symbolic space of the former Russian Empire

Competencies:

- The student understands the influence of external and internal factors on the sovereignization of the nations of the former Russian Empire in the discussed period

- The acquired subject knowledge helps students analyze the contemporary area of ​​the former USSR and the social changes currently taking place there.