Revolution of 1917 and the Civil War in Russia - rate 3100 rubles. from Synchronization, training 12 hours, Date: December 4, 2023.
Miscellaneous / / December 07, 2023
Synchronization is one of the largest lecture halls in Russia. We provide online courses on psychology, history, cinema, painting and more.
"Synchronization" is a Russian educational platform launched by Maria Borodetskaya and Andrey Lobanov. They offer online courses in a popular science format (psychology, art, cinema, economics, architecture, fashion and design, literature, philosophy, religion, music, etc.)
The cultural platform “Synchronization” is an educational project whose goal is to talk interestingly about striking phenomena, trends, personalities in culture and science. “Synchronization” lectures attract more than 2.5 thousand people every month. a person, offering listeners new and new topics and directions, talking simply about complex things.
Currently, Synchronization conducts more than 200 lectures per month in 19 main areas (painting, architecture, history, philosophy, cinema, fashion, etc.). According to the founders of the project, the most popular area is lectures on painting, which occupy about 30% of the entire lecture program.
During the courses, lecturers—there are 45 of them in Synchronization—try to give students the opportunity to build their own system, which will allow them to add new knowledge to what they have already acquired and broaden their horizons. Therefore, Synchronization offers not only individual lectures, but also special courses, for example “History of architectural styles”, “The language of cinema”, “Guide to the history of art”, lasting two or three weeks.
In 2018, Synchronization launched an online direction.
The team is also developing a corporate direction, offering companies to conduct training lectures for their employees. Clients include McKinsey, Ernst & Young, KPMG, Sberbank Insurance, Swarovski, etc.
She has developed more than 20 lectures on the history of Russia and Europe for Synchronization, several offline and online courses on history.
Russian-speaking consultant for the international online project The Great War.
Graduated from the Institute of History and Archives of the Russian State University for the Humanities and master's degree from Uniwersytet Mikolaja Kopiernika (Poland).
She gave lectures and seminars at the Russian State University for the Humanities, and worked as a history teacher at school.
The first stage of the Civil War. 1918-1919
Let's figure out how the Bolsheviks' rise to power provoked the outbreak of the Civil War
The seizure of power by the Bolsheviks and the defeat of Russia in the First World War caused a new wave of indignation among the population. We will find out how the Civil War began, who fought against the Bolsheviks, and also find out:
The second stage of the Civil War. 1919-1920
Let's find out how the anti-Bolshevik forces almost won the Civil War and why they were ultimately defeated
The opponents of the Bolsheviks successfully started the confrontation and attacked them from different sides. Let's figure out how, despite this, the Bolsheviks managed to win, and also find out:
- How revolutionary Leon Trotsky created a powerful army from scratch in a few months
- Why did officers of the imperial army join the Red Army?
- Why did red supporters appear in territories controlled by whites?
- What internal conflicts and contradictions did not allow the white armies to come to an agreement with each other?
- What is terror and why the Civil War was so brutal
The third stage of the Civil War. 1920-1921
The Bolsheviks managed to break the resistance of the whites, but the political actions of the reds continued to cause protests among the population of the country. Let's figure out how the Bolsheviks retained power, and also find out:
- Why did the Bolsheviks consider the third stage of the Civil War to be the most dangerous for themselves?
- Why did many Volga region residents have a portrait of US Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover hanging in their huts in the 20s and 30s?
- How the Bolsheviks managed to suppress all the uprisings that broke out in the early 20s
- What political system did the Bolsheviks create at the end of the Civil War?
Seminar. Historical sources from the Civil War
Let's figure out how to form the most objective and impartial view of complex historical events
As we know, history is written by the winners. But if we want to understand the essence of what happened, we need to look at the events from the points of view of all participants. Working with sources will help us with this. At the seminar we will learn how to work with them, and also learn:
- How historians study the Revolution and Civil War
- What historical sources exist
- How to perceive historical documents and form your opinion with their help
- How to debate on a given historical topic
- What is collective trauma from the Civil War and how is it conveyed by eyewitness accounts?
Let's go on a journey to the real Japan with a historian who fell in love with this country so much that he decided to move there. Over the course of 7 weeks, we will consistently analyze the history, culture and way of life of the Japanese, discard stereotypes and find out what the people of the country believe in, how they live and what they eat. Let's learn to understand their mentality and become imbued with the atmosphere of Japan, which is so different from the rest of the world.
What Louis XVI and Napoleon wore and how the fashion of the past influences the present.
Department: Faculty of History. Advanced training programs.