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Root number
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520660 |
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Semester
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HS2026 |
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Type of course
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Proseminar |
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Allocation to subject
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History |
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Type of exam
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not defined |
| Title |
Travel to the Enemies? Recreation, Exchange and Diplomacy in Tsarist Russia and in the Soviet Union 1900-1990 |
| Description |
What images and visions of the “other” were generated through travel in the Tsarist Empire and the Soviet Union, and what do they reveal about the worldviews and identities of their populations? What did the tourism practices of the Soviet Union have in common with the repressive organs of the party state, and what consequences did this have for the experience of travel? This course looks back at roughly 90 years of tourism history and aims to take students into the “borderland” between the conquest of nature, recreation, political recruitment, and international exchange. On the one hand, the focus is on turizm as a phenomenon; on the other, on acquiring methodological foundations for working with source materials that illustrate the changing agendas and conditions of both travelers and those being visited. Beginning with intellectual journeys within and beyond the Tsarist Russia—often serving ethnographic purposes and processes of self-discovery—the proseminar examines early trips to the Soviet Union, which were frequently accompanied by utopian visions of communism. The greatest attention, however, is devoted to the period of the Cold War, which by the 1960s at the latest was marked by the development of mass tourism and, alongside exchanges with the socialist bloc and the West, implicitly involved the entanglement of these travels with the Second World War.
Please note that attendance at the accompanying tutorial is mandatory for participation in the proseminar. |
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ILIAS-Link (Learning resource for course)
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Registrations are transmitted from CTS to ILIAS (no admission in ILIAS possible).
ILIAS
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| Lecturers |
Prof. Dr.
Julia Richers, Institute of History, Modern, Contemporary and Eastern European History ✉
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Dr.
Odeta Rudling, Institute of History, Modern, Contemporary and Eastern European History ✉
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Franziska Michel, Institute of History, Eastern European History ✉
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ECTS
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6 |
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Recognition as optional course possible
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No |
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Grading
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1 to 6 |
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| Dates |
Wednesday 14:15-16:00 Weekly
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Rooms
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