Bachelor 2025/2026

Global Political and Economic History

Type: Compulsory course (Political Science and World Politics)

Delivered by: Department of Political Science and International Affairs

When: 1 year, 1, 2 module

Open to: students of all HSE University campuses

Instructors: Паникар Марина Михайловна, Stanislav Mazhinskiy, Maria Starun

Language: English

Course Syllabus

Abstract

This is a general course introducing fundamental political processes in the world from the early modern time to 1991. The course will outline historical contexts of such issues as formation of modern state and governmental practices; emergence of nation-states; social and political revolutions; mass politics and new forms of political movements. The course is aimed at developing comparative thinking and deepening the understanding of any political phenomenon in its historical dimension.