Faculty of History

Faculty of History is one of Russia's major centres for History teaching and research. The Faculty's academic traditions have taken shape over centuries. As such, it exerts a significant influence on the nation's historical sensibility and culture.

Departments

History of Russia to 1800
History of Russia in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries
History of the Soviet Union and Contemporary Russian History
Source Study in Russian and Soviet History
History of Social Movements and Political Parties in Russia
History of the Ancient World
History of the Middle Ages
Modern and Contemporary History of Europe and America
History of the Southern and Western Slavs
Archaeology
Ethnology
History of World Art
History of Russian and Soviet Art
Laboratories and Centres

History of Russian Culture
History of Interethnic Relations and Nationality Policy in Russia
History of the USA
History of Byzantium and the Black Sea Area
Archaeography
Information Studies in History
Metallorgaphic and Spectral Analysis
Center for Theoretical Problems in History
Center for Research and Training in Applied Ethnology
The Faculty maintains the research museum of Archaeology and Ethnography.
Bachelour and Master Degrees

5 years full time

Directions

History of Russia
World History
History of Social Movements and Political Parties in Russia
Archaeology, Ethnology, History of Art
Russian Historiography and Source Study
General Courses

Fundamentals of Archaeology
Fundamentals of Ethnology
History of Primitive Society
Ancient History of the Oriental Civilizations
History of Ancient Greece
History of Ancient Rome
History of Russia to 1800
History of West European Art
History of Russian Art
Philosophy
History of the Middle Ages
History of Russia in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries
History of Asia and Africa in the Middle Ages
History of Philosophy
Economic Theory
Quantitative Methods in Historical Research
Information Science and Mathematics
History of Russia and the Soviet Union in the 20th Century
Modern History of Europe and America
Modern History of Asia and Africa
Source Study
Modern History of Europe and America
History of the Southern and Western Slavs
Modern History of Asia and Africa
Historiography
Problems of Method in Historical Research
Courses in Speciality

History of Russia

History of Russian Culture
Historical Geography
Archive Science
Paleography
Old-Russian Language (for students of Russia prior to 1800)
Reference Facilities for the Study of Russian and Soviet History
Elective Courses

The State of Genghis Khan and His Descendents: The Golden Horde and Its Successors
St. Vladimir and His Era
Old Russian Book Culture
Old Russian Painting: Methods of Analysis and Interpretation
The Manuscript and the Printed Book
Historical Events as Reflected in the Architectural Relics of the 11th through the 18th Century
Church and State in the 17th Century
The Oprichnina of Ivan IV
The Russian Nobility in the Reign of Mikhail Romanov
The Image of Man in Russian Culture of the 18th Century
Absolutism and the Russian Merchant Estate in the Second Quarter of the 18th Century
The Age of Enlightenment: 18th Century Russia
Problems of the Genesis of Capitalism in the 17th and 18th Centuries
Russian Government Policy in the Caucasus and Central Asia in the 19th Century
Russia in the Context of International Relations from the Napoleonic Wars to the European Revolutions of 1830-31
The Balkans and the Straits in Late 19th Century Russian Foreign Policy
The Formation of the Territory of the Russian Empire
The Orthodox Church in Russia in the Late 19th Century and Early 20th Absolutism in Russia
Liberalism in Russia, 1762-1861
Government Policy towards the Press in the Late 19th Century and Early 20th
Autocracy in Struggle with the Revolutionary Movement in the Late 19th Century and Early 20th
The Eastern Question in Russian Foreign Policy in the First Half of the 19th Century
The Socialist Revolutionaries: Myths and Realities
The Agrarian and Peasant Questions in the Programs of Russian Political Parties in the Period of the Revolution of 1905-07
Foreign Capital in Russia: Russian and Foreign Research, Methods of Study, and Contemporary Implications Entrepreneurship in Russia: Contemporary Practice and Historical Tradition
The Russian Socio-Economic Tradition in the Light of Social Psychology
Idols and Leaders in 1917 in the Mirror of the Contemporary Press
How the Village Has Managed Its Affairs for the Last Hundred Years
Interethnic Relations in the USSR
Nationality Problems of the USSR in Emigre and Dissident Writings
The War of 1941-1945
The History of Russian and Soviet Constitutions
Moscow in the 20th Century
Soviet and Foreign Historiography of the October Revolution
An Introduction to Foreign Historiography on the Soviet Period
The Russian Emigration
Russia and the Independent Soviet Republics in Foreign Policy, 1918-1922
The USSR, Russia and the UN
The Political History of Russia, 1990-1995
World History

Source Study
Historiography
Historical Geography
Cultural History (various periods)
Auxillary Historical Disciplines
Greek Epigraphy
Roman Epigraphy
Akkadian
Old Egyptian
Ancient Chinese
Sanscrit
Mayan Inscriptions
Latin
Ancient Greek
Latin and Greek Paleography
History and Theory of International Relations
The Rise and Development of the System of International Relations
Fundamentals of Political Science
History of Political Theory
Slavic Paleography
Economic Geography
Slavic and Other Foreign Languages
Area Studies
History of the Ancient World

Introduction to Egyptology
Fundamental Problems of Ancient Chinese Civilization
Literature of the Ancient Orient
Aristotle's Theory of the Coup de Etat of States
The Mode of Life of a Greek Citizen According to Aristotle and Xenophon
Fundamental Problems of Ancient Indian History
The Class, Status and Political Structure of Roman Citizenship the Late Republican Period
Classical Roman Slavery as a Socio-Economic System
The History of Ancient Culture
Fundamentals of Roman Private Law
Sources of Roman Law
The Rome of the First Tsars
The Ancient Roman as Man and Citizen
Christianity in the First Three Centuries of the Common Era
Roman Land Law in the First Three Centuries of the Common Era
Medieval History

An Introduction to Byzantine Studies
The Crusader States in the East
The System of Estates and Monarchy in France
Political and State Institutions of Medieval Europe: Comparison of Western Europe and Russia
Problems of the Socio-economic History of Southern France
The History of the Reformation and Absolutism in France
The Habsburg Monarchy in the Context of International Relations
Italian Colonization of the Black Sea Area in the 13th Century through the 15th
Italian Humanism in the Era of the Renaissance
Problems in the History of Medieval Scandinavia
The Civilization of the Pyrennees: Symbiosis or Synthesis?
The English Parliament of the Tudor Era
Problems of Socio-economic Development in England in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods
Modern and Contemporary History of Europe and America

Pending Problems of the French Revolution
The Foreign Policy of France, 1815-1848
The Political System of the Fifth Republic
Ideology in England in the Age of Enlightenment
The First International in England
British Economic Policy in the 1820s and 1830s
Problems of Colonialism in English History
The Enlightenment in Italy
Problems in the History of Revolutionary Marxism
The Ostpolitik of the Federal Republic of Germany
The Genesis and Ideology of German Fascism
Ethnic and Regional Problems in Spain, 1940-1990
Spanish Culture of the 16th and 17th Centuries
American Policy in Central America and the Caribbean
The Revolutionary Process in Latin America
The History of International Relations in the Modern Era
Crisis and Conflict in the History of International Relations
The State and the Economy in the Twentieth Century
History of the Southern and Western Slavs

International Relations in the Balkans
The Bulgarian National Revival
The History of Social and Political Thought in Serbia in the Second Half of the 19th Century
History of the Slavic Baroque: Humanism and the Counter-reformation
Serbian-Russian Relations in the Late 19th Century and Early 20th
The Yugoslavian Crisis of the 1980s-1990s
Catholicism and Orthodoxy in the Polish State and the Slavic World in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
The Culture and National Self-consciousness of the Slavic Peoples of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the End of the 19th Century and the Beginning of 20th
The Ideological Development of the Polish Peasant Movement in the Interwar Period
The History of Slavic Studies in Russia and the USSR
History of Social Movements and Political Parties in Russia

The Historiography of Political Parties
Sources of the History of Political Parties in Russia
An Introduction to Comparative Historical Political Science
Public Opinion and Political Culture in Russia in the 19th and 20th Centuries
The History of the Development of Science and Technology in Russia and the USSR (Socio-political and Economic Aspects)
The History of the Programme of the Russian Social-Democratic Workers Party
The History of Russian Social and Political Thought, 1917-1945
Parties and Organizations in Society's Political System: History and Contemporary Aspects
The History of the "Comintern"
The Political Doctrines of Russian Liberalism
Ethnic Issues in the Political Life of Russia
Youth Movements in Russia
Economic Problems in the Programs of Political Parties in Contemporary Russia
Archaeology

Field Archaeology
Scientific Methods in Archaeology
History of Archaeology
Methods of Archaeological Typology
The Stone Age
The Neolithic and Bronze Ages
The Iron Age
Archaeology of the Ancient World
Archaeology of Ancient Rus
Elective Courses

Archaeology of Ancient Russian Towns
The Archaeology of Siberia
Stone-age Tombs
Habitations of the Upper Paleolithic Period
Ancient Scandinavia and the Wider World in the 9th - 11th Centuries
Burial Mounds of Ancient Rus
The Neolithic and Early Bronze Ages in the Southwest of the CIS
Metallorgaphy in Archaeology
The Application of Statistical Methods to Archaeology
Muslim Archaeology
Ancient Glass
The History of Production in Antiquity
Russian Sphragistics
Specialized courses on Scythian themes
Archaeology of Moscow
Ancient Cultures of the South-Russian Steppe
History of Primitive Ceramic Production
Medieval Finno-Ugric Archaeology
The departmental research and teaching seminars: Novgorod, Smolensk, Scythian-Sarmatian, the History of Antiquity Production, and the Morphology of Ancient Arteifacts.

Ethnology

Methods of Ethnology
Problems of Ethnology
Peoples of Russia and Neighbouring Nations Ethnodemographics
Economic and Cultural Types and Historico-ethnographic Regions
History of Social Organization in Pre-class Societies
Culture and Social Structure of Traditional Societies
Problems of Cultural Anthropology
Ethnography of Foreign Peoples: Asia, Europe, America, Africa, Australia and Oceania
Theoretical Ethnology
Religions of the Peoples of the World
Main Elective Courses

The Contemporary Family Among the Peoples of Russia and Neighbouring Nations
Ethnocultural Processes in Modern Times and Today
Everyday Islam
Cossacks Past and Present
Ethnic Self-consciousness and Culture of the Peoples of the World
The Department maintains the Centre for research and training in Applied Ethnology.Undergraduates study Methods of Sociological Investigation, Methods of Estimation (as applied to Ethnological Prediction), Problems of Applied Ethnology, Fundamentals of Ethnosociology and Political Science Aspects of Ethnology, among others subjects.

Art History

Ancient Russian Art
Russian Art of the 18th Century
Russian Art in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries
20th Century Russian and Soviet Art
Russian Art Criticism
Techniques of Restoration
Elective Courses

Russian Architecture between the Medieval and the Modern
Novgorodian Architecture of the 14th and 15th Centuries
Russian Architecture at the Turn of the 20th Century
The Gothic in Russian Architecture of the 18th and 19th Centuries
Modern and Eclectic Architecture
Restoration of Tempera Paintings
Interactions between Russian and West European Art in the 18th Century
Fundamentals of Attribution and Iconographics with Respect to Russian Art of the 18th Century
Art and Culture of the Russian Feudal Estate in the 18th and 19th Centuries
Landscape Architecture of Russian Parks of the 18th Century
Paintings of the Russian Avant-garde
Artistic Life in Russia in the Late 19th Century and Early 20th
The Creations of Contemporary Moscow Artists
Problems of Succession in Contemporary Soviet Art
Unofficial Art in Russia, 1950-1990
Russian and Soviet Stage Design
Costume in Russian Painting of the 18th and 19th Centuries
Neoclassicism in Russian Art at the Beginning of the 20th Century
Problems of Research on Russian Buildings
History of World Art

Methods in the Art Studies
Art Theory
Restoration of Paintings
Description and Analysis of Art and Architecture
In addition, the Department offers a series of courses on the History of Foreign Art embracing all phases of world culture from primitive art to the present day, for example: "Art of the Ancient Orient, Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome"; "Early Christian Art"; "Byzantine Art"; "Art of India and the Far East"; "Renaissance Art"; "West European Art of the Baroque and Classical Periods".

Specialised Courses

Culture and Art of the Ancient World
Restoration of Paintings
West European and Russian Applied and Decorative Arts from the Late 17th Century to the 20th European Ceramics and Glass from the Renaissance to the Modern Age
Collection and Formation of European Painting in Russia, 18th to 20th Centuries
History and Theory of Architectural Restoration
Conception of the Mosque: Sources and Evolution of an Architectural Form
Typology and Iconographics in the Architecture of the Mediterranean and Transcaucasia in the Early Middle Ages
The Art of Ancient Khersonesos and Its Area
The Comparative Study of Buddhist Art of India and the Far East
The World of the Artist in the Italian Renaissance
Foreign Art of the 19th and 20th Centuries
Problems of Kitsch and Mass Culture in 20th Century Art
Master Degree

2 years full time

Directions

History of Russia
World History
History of Social Movements and Political Parties in Russia
Archaeology
Ethnology
Art History
Russian and Soviet Historiography and Source Study
Individual curriculum for each student

PhD Degree

3 years full time

Specialities

History of Russia
World History
Source Study and Historiography
Archeology
Ethnography
Art History
History and Theory of Political Science
Ideology and Political Culture