Universität Wien

070021 SE BA-Seminar - Russia and the Balkans in the 19th century (2019S)

8.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 7 - Geschichte
Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung

An/Abmeldung

Hinweis: Ihr Anmeldezeitpunkt innerhalb der Frist hat keine Auswirkungen auf die Platzvergabe (kein "first come, first served").

Details

max. 25 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch

Lehrende

Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert

The class will be held in English together with Prof. Dr. Rinna Kullaa.

Donnerstag 07.03. 11:00 - 12:30 Seminarraum des Instituts für Osteuropäische Geschichte UniCampus Hof 3 2Q-EG-27
Donnerstag 14.03. 11:00 - 12:30 Seminarraum des Instituts für Osteuropäische Geschichte UniCampus Hof 3 2Q-EG-27
Donnerstag 21.03. 11:00 - 12:30 Seminarraum des Instituts für Osteuropäische Geschichte UniCampus Hof 3 2Q-EG-27
Donnerstag 28.03. 11:00 - 12:30 Seminarraum des Instituts für Osteuropäische Geschichte UniCampus Hof 3 2Q-EG-27
Donnerstag 11.04. 11:00 - 12:30 Seminarraum des Instituts für Osteuropäische Geschichte UniCampus Hof 3 2Q-EG-27
Donnerstag 02.05. 11:00 - 12:30 Seminarraum des Instituts für Osteuropäische Geschichte UniCampus Hof 3 2Q-EG-27
Donnerstag 09.05. 11:00 - 12:30 Seminarraum des Instituts für Osteuropäische Geschichte UniCampus Hof 3 2Q-EG-27
Donnerstag 16.05. 11:00 - 12:30 Seminarraum des Instituts für Osteuropäische Geschichte UniCampus Hof 3 2Q-EG-27
Donnerstag 23.05. 11:00 - 12:30 Seminarraum des Instituts für Osteuropäische Geschichte UniCampus Hof 3 2Q-EG-27
Donnerstag 06.06. 11:00 - 12:30 Seminarraum des Instituts für Osteuropäische Geschichte UniCampus Hof 3 2Q-EG-27
Donnerstag 13.06. 11:00 - 12:30 Seminarraum des Instituts für Osteuropäische Geschichte UniCampus Hof 3 2Q-EG-27
Donnerstag 27.06. 11:00 - 12:30 Seminarraum des Instituts für Osteuropäische Geschichte UniCampus Hof 3 2Q-EG-27

Information

Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

This seminar will deal with Russia’s policy in the Balkans from the Crimean War until World War I. Despite the Paris Peace Treaty of 1856 creating a setback for Russia’s position in the Black Sea and for its aim to create a Russian protectorate over the Balkan Slavs, the latter ever more strongly demanded independence from Ottoman rule. When Serbs and Bulgarians rose against the Sultan in 1875–77, Russian volunteers induced tsar Alexander II to declare war against the Sultan. While this war was victorious, the Russian-Ottoman Treaty of San Stefano was ultimately revised by the powers at the Berlin Congress. However, as the Bulgarian Crisis of 1885–87 demonstrated, the situation remained volatile. In reaction to Russian heavy-handed interference, Bulgaria turned from a Russian client to an Austrian one; whereas the pro-Austrian Obrenović dynasty of Serbia fell victim of a pro-Russian putsch in 1903. While Ottoman power was in decline, the Balkan people’s ever increasing demands remained unfulfilled as Russia, the Habsburg Monarchy and Britain were not able to agree on more than slight revisions of the status quo. When the Young Turk movement aimed a reinstating Turkish control in the Balkans, Austria-Hungary, with Russian knowledge, moved to annex Bosnia and Hercegovina, thus provoking another major international crisis. What is more, the Balkan crises contributed to the ruin of Russian-Austrian relations. In 1912 the Russian diplomacy had crafted an anti-Ottoman alliance which in two Balkan Wars moved to expel Ottoman rule from the Balkans. When a Serb assassin killed the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne on 28 June 1914, Russian diplomacy backed Serbia against Austrian demands, thus leading into World War I.

It is the aim of this research seminar to enable participants (a) to get a better understanding of the Balkan issue and Russian foreign policy in the 19th century, and (b) to develop their research practice on the basis of published documents in various languages (German, English, French, Russian).

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

assigned reading, oral presentation of 20 min. (25%), paper outline (1-2 pp., topic, question, structure, bibliogr.), seminar essay of 60,000 characters (50%), oral commentary, participation in discussions.

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

Positive (Grade 4) with 50%.

Absence will require make-up assignments.

Prüfungsstoff

Students are expected to write a research paper on a theme of mutual interest to student and instructor relating to one of the issues raised by the seminar. The deadline for the submission of papers is 2 weeks after the last course session.

Literatur

Beyrau, Dietrich, Russische Orientpolitik und die Entstehung des Deutschen Kaiserreiches : 1866 - 1870/71, Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz ; 1974
Dostjan, Irina S., Rossija i Balkanskij vopros : iz istorii Russko-Balkanskich političeskich svjazej v pervoj treti XIX v. Moskva : Izdat. Nauka ; 1972
Frary, Lucien J., Russian-Ottoman borderlands : the Eastern question reconsidered, Madison, Wis. [u.a.] : Univ. of Wisconsin Press ; 2014
Hünigen, Gisela, Nikolaj Pavlovič Ignat'ev und die russische Balkanpolitik : 1875 – 1878, Göttingen: Musterschmidt ; 1968
Jelavich, Barbara, Russia and the formation of the Romanian national state : 1821 – 1878, Cambridge: Univ. Press ; 1984
Jelavich, Barbara, Russia's Balkan entanglements : 1806 – 1914, Cambridge: Univ. Press ; 1991
Jelavich, Charles, Tsarist Russia and Balkan nationalism : Russian influence in the internal affairs of Bulgaria and Serbia, 1879 – 1886, Berkeley, Calif. [u.a.] : Univ. of California Press ; 1962
Lampe, John; Jackson, Marvin, Balkan Economic History, 1550-1950: From Imperial Borderlands to Developing Nations, Bloomington: Indiana University Press 1982.
MacKenzie, David, Serbs and Russians, Boulder, Colo. [u.a.] : East European Monographs; 1996.
Palairet, Michael, The Balkan Economies c. 1800–1914: Evolution without Development, New York: Cambridge University Press 1997.
Palotás, Emil, Machtpolitik und Wirtschaftsinteressen : der Balkan und Rußland in der österreichisch-ungarischen Außenpolitik 1878–1895, Budapest : Akad. Kiadó ; 1995.
Russko-tureckaja vojna 1877–1878 gg. i Balkany, Moskva : Izdat. Nauka ; 1978
Rossos, Andrew, Russia and the Balkans : Inter-Balkan rivalries and Russian foreign policy 1908 – 1914, Toronto [u.a.] : Univ. of Toronto Press ; 1981
Siupiur, Elena ; Pippidi, Andrei, Les relations de la Russie avec les Roumains et avec le Sud-Est de l'Europe du XVIII-e au XX-e siècle : actes du colloque international, Bucarest le 14 septembre 2010, Bucureşti : Ed. Biblioteca Bucureştilor ; 2011
Sumner, Benedict Humphrey, Russia and the Balkans 1870-1880, Oxford : Clarendon Pr. ; 1937
Thaden, Edward C., Russia and the Balkan Alliance of 1912, University Park, Penn. : Pennsylvania State Univ. Press ; 1965.
Uebersberger, Hans, Russlands Orientpolitik in den letzten zwei Jahrhunderten, Stuttgart: DVA, 1913
Vovchenko, Denis, Containing Balkan nationalism : imperial Russia and Ottoman Christians, 1856-1914, New York, NY : Oxford University Press ; 2016

Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

BA: 9 ECTS
BEd: 8 ECTS

Letzte Änderung: Mo 07.09.2020 15:30