European History|Modern History|Russian and East European Languages and Cultural Studies

RUSSIAN HISTORY|IMPERIAL RUSSIA|EUROPEAN HISTORY|MODERN HISTORY|SOCIETY AND POLITICS

The decades between the reform era of the 1860s and the overthrow of the monarchy in 1917 mark one of the most vibrant and interesting periods in Russian...

Society and Politics in Late Imperial Russia (HIST0500)

The decades between the reform era of the 1860s and the overthrow of the monarchy in 1917 mark one of the most vibrant and interesting periods in Russian history, a time of social change, cultural creativity, and political conflict. This advanced seminar course combines a chronological and thematic survey of these decades, exploring social, cultural, and political transformations across key spheres, from the autocracy to the revolutionary underground, the landed estate to the family, the church to the university. While it considers how this period ultimately set the stage for the revolutions of 1917, it also seeks to challenge a linear narrative that subsumes this period into its revolutionary finale.

This module places a particular emphasis on understanding late imperial Russia through the literature, art and music of the period, and the recommended reading includes a number of novels from Dostoevsky's The Devils to Andrey Bely's Petersburg. Specific topics covered include Russian populism, revolutionary terrorism, civil society and the state, Russian imperialism in Central Asia and the Caucasus, industrialisation, religious decline and revival, and the Russian intelligentsia.

Research Project: MSc Brain and Mind Sciences (CLNE0035)

The ‘Modern Economics and Finance for Real Estate’ module will set out the modern principles of both economics and finance as they relate to the...

Modern Economics and Finance for Real Estate (BREI0008)

The ‘Modern Economics and Finance for Real Estate’ module will set out the modern principles of both economics and finance as they relate to the world of real estate. The disruption caused by the Global Financial Crisis of 2008 now in conjunction with the implications of the climate crisis and most recently the Covid-19 pandemic have all impacted on the thinking, theories and concepts used that relate to modern real estate. This is highly relevant to the closely associated world of finance and this has transitioned into new views on the economics and finance of real estate.