Iğdır University Lifelong Learning Programme

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code	Course Unit Title	Type of Course Unit	Year of Study	Semester	Number of ECTS Credits
130300104100	RUSSIAN HISTORY	Elective	2	4	3

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle

Objectives of the Course

The aim of the course is to explain major events in the history of Russia and its political, social and cultural history to ensure understanding.

Name of Lecturer(s)

Learning Outcomes

1	The individuals who are major in their field and experienced are being grown as dependent on main principles of Republic of Turkey and convenient for the main aims of Turkish national education system.
2	They will achieve some behaviour such as being open-minded while doing scientific investigations, being suspicious and delaying decisions in the situation of having no complete proof, and they can maintain their studies with patience and care.
3	They will apply the modern methods writing and investigating history by being loyal to scientific ethical rules.
4	By learning other disciplines which can be an assist to science of history, they will benefit from the branches which will help them in their investigations and studies.
5	Comprehension of the conditions of Russian State and a review of the similarities between Ottoman and Russian State.
6	Specifying the sources of political and military struggles between Ottoman State and Russia.
7	Specifying the reflections of Ottoman-Russian relations on today.
8	Comprehension of Russian world and imperialism policies.

Mode of Delivery

Daytime Class

Prerequisites and co-requisities

None

Recommended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Lesson 18 and 19 century Russian history will be discussed. Tsarist Russia historical political fiction, political structures, state ideology, and the social and political modernization process will focus on the issues of the Russian-Ottoman relations.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Theoretical	Practice	Laboratory
1	Some points in chronology and terminology of Russia	Reading, criticizing
2	Russian geography: Meaning and origins of the word Russian	Reading, criticizing
3	Russian history from the beginning until Christianity	Reading, criticizing
4	Turkish-Russian struggle in steppes	Reading, criticizing
5	Novgorod Republic, Suzdal Period in Russia, struggle with Tatars	Reading, criticizing
6	Foundation and rise of Great Moscow Princeship	Reading, criticizing
7	Russia in the period of Ivan the Terrible and his successors	Reading, criticizing
8	Midterm Exam
9	Romanovs and the first period of Russian Empire	Reading, criticizing
10	Great Petro: His sultanate, successors and relations with Ottoman Empire	Reading, criticizing
11	Period of Katarina II, her foreign policy and expansion of Russia; Europe and Russia, relations with Ottomans	Reading, criticizing
12	Developments in the periods Aleksander I, Nikola II, Aleksander III, Aleksander, reforms and responses to them	Reading, criticizing
13	Russia in 1905 and 1917 revolutions, foundation of Soviet Russia, relations with Ottomans	Reading, criticizing
14	Soviet Russia until Second World War, Soviet Russia from Cold War until Detente	Reading, criticizing

Recommended or Required Reading

Akdes Nimet Kurat, Rusya Tarihi, Başlangıcından 1917’ye Kadar, Ankara, 1987. Akdes Nimet Kurat, Türkiye ve Rusya, Ankara, 1990. Kâmuran Gürün, Türk-Sovyet İlişkileri 1920-1953, Ankara, 1991. Rusya ve Ruslar: Erken Dönemden 21. Yüzyıla, Geoffrey Hosking (Çev. Kezban Acar), İstanbul 2011.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods and Criteria

Term (or Year) Learning Activities	Quantity	Weight
Midterm Examination	1	100
SUM		100
End Of Term (or Year) Learning Activities	Quantity	Weight
Final Examination	1	100
SUM		100
Term (or Year) Learning Activities		40
End Of Term (or Year) Learning Activities		60
SUM		100

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities	Number	Time (hours)	Total Work Load (hours)
Midterm Examination	1	1	1
Final Examination	1	2	2
Attending Lectures	13	3	39
Field Work	8	2	16
Self Study	14	1	14
Individual Study for Homework Problems	2	2	4
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)			76

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