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Russian History – (M.A.)

University of Bristol

Faculty of Arts
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Application Deadline: August 01
Location: Bristol / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴
Duration: 12 months Start Date: October
Educational Form:
  • Taught
Education Variants:
  • Parttime
  • Fulltime
Languages: English 
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Location of University of Bristol

This programme is designed to deepen understanding of a major power and the mentality of its people through study of its intellectual, political and cultural history and by offering the possibility of approaching source material in the original. The programme has a taught component (120 credit points) and a dissertation component (60 credit points).


Contents

Compulsory Units

* Dostoevsky and Native-Soil Conservatism
* Russian Revolutionary Populism, 1870-90
* Approaches to History
* Research methods

Optional Units

* Introduction to Russian for Graduate students
* Advanced language (Russian)
* European Literature of Ideas
* European Society
* Soviet Cultural Politics
* Politics, Poetics and Places of Memory; Remembering the Holocaust, 1945 to the present
* Themes in Cultural and Intellectual History
* Concepts of Europe
* The Rise of the Novel in 19th-century Europe
* Constructing Identities
* Culture and Conflict: Theoretical Approaches
* War on screen
* Goodbye Lenin: Culture, Society and Dissent in the later Soviet Union
* Theories of Visual Culture: Text and Image
* Tradition and Experimentation in 20th-century European Fiction
* European Cinema, National and Transnational
* Reception: History, Time and the Archive

Dissertation

You will be required to research and write a dissertation of up to 15,000 words on a project of your choice, advised by a member of the academic staff. The project accounts for 60 credit points. You begin work in June and must submit the dissertation in mid-September.

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Requirements

Entry requirements

An upper second-class honours degree (or equivalent). We do welcome non-traditional qualifications.

Language requirements

An IELTS score of 6.5 in all bands.

Language Proficiency

IELTS Band: 6.5

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