Teaching Responsibility
LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
Humanities and Social Science
Learning Methods
Lecture
Online
Seminar
Module Offerings
6108HIST-JAN-MTP
Aims
1. Introduce students to Bolshevik concepts of the body, and how these related to wider social, political, economic and cultural issues.
2. Provide students with an in-depth understanding of the early Soviet state and society, developing their analytical, critical, and communication skills.
3. Equip students with the knowledge and skills to understand, identify and critically assess different kinds of source material.
Learning Outcomes
1.
Discuss and clearly articulate important concepts with reference to examples studied in class.
2.
Demonstrate a nuanced and sophisticated understanding of historiographical themes and context pertaining to the Soviet Union, 1917-1945.
3.
Engage in historical debate about early Soviet approaches to building a new society and be able to contextualize these within the larger modernity project.
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:The human body was a key part of the Bolshevik project and this module explores how the Soviet body was deconstructed, constructed, and reified during the interwar period. In this module we will examine body politics and the larger effort to organize and reshape society through sport, leisure and health. This process will highlight the different processes of change over time and how these might be assessed in terms of interpreting the Soviet experience. Drawing on diaries, photographs, archive material and film, this module will deal with the social, cultural, and political changes occurring the Soviet Union in the 1920s and 1930
Module Overview:
The aim of this module is to introduce you to Bolshevik concepts of the body, and how these related to wider social, political, economic and cultural issues. You will be provided with an in-depth understanding of the early Soviet state and society, developing their analytical, critical, and communication skills.
The aim of this module is to introduce you to Bolshevik concepts of the body, and how these related to wider social, political, economic and cultural issues. You will be provided with an in-depth understanding of the early Soviet state and society, developing their analytical, critical, and communication skills.
Additional Information:1. Broken Bodies: War, Revolutions, & Famine, 2. Health, Hygiene and Physical Culture. 3. Making Women Soviet. 4. Youth Culture 5. Brave New World: Soviet Science and the New Man 6. Affirmative Action Empire, 7. The Right to Rest, 8. Looking West: Totalitarian Bodies, 9. Displaying Bodies: Sport and Parades 10. Shadow of War. 11. Revisions/Consultation