National History

The postgraduate program is aimed at training of highly qualified scientific and scientific-pedagogical staff with the skills of independent scientific analytical thinking, based on a deep understanding of theoretical and methodological basics for addressing professional issues in universities, specialized academic institutes and other research institutes; archives, museums; other cultural institutions; expert analytical centers, public and government organizations focused on information and analytics.

Advantages:

Postgraduates prepare to:

• independently carry out research in the relevant professional field using modern research methods and information and communication technologies
• teach in degree educational programs in universities
• independently identify and address current scientific issues of economic, political, social and cultural development of Russia in the 9th-21st centuries

Main courses:

• History and philosophy of science
• Foreign language
• National history
• Methodology of historical science
• 18-20^th Century records and methods of research
• State-society relations: historical analysis

Research:

1. Research subjects: historical processes and phenomena in their sociocultural, political, economic dimensions and their reflection in historical sources
2. Research objects: Russia’s past in all its diversity of concrete historical, comparative, interdisciplinary and theoretical aspects throughout the chronological span of Russian history, the activities of the state and society, nations in all spheres of life at various stages of historical development