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History of Europe - course 2800 rub. from Synchronization, training 14 hours, Date: December 4, 2023.
Miscellaneous / / December 08, 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.
They will be called “middle” much later, but for now it is an era of separate kingdoms, feudalism and religiosity. But that's not all. At the lecture we will figure out what the man of the Middle Ages lived and how he saw the world. Let's talk about the most important events, from the Crusades to the plague, and also learn:
- How Charlemagne united the scattered barbarian kingdoms and became Emperor of the West;
- What is the Carolingian Renaissance and what was the situation with education and literacy;
- What were the Crusades really intended for and what did they lead to?
- Why the Hundred Years' War is a “classic” example of a medieval war and how it influenced the formation of modern states;
- Why the fall of Constantinople marks the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Renaissance.
Lecture 3.
New time
lecturer: Sofia Shirogorova
“European miracle” is what this period is sometimes called. The world suddenly becomes Eurocentric and European civilization penetrates into other regions. At the lecture we will talk about the three pillars on which this era is based: Protestantism, capitalism and absolutism. We will also find out:
- How the ideas of humanism gave impetus to the Renaissance;
- How Protestantism began in the north and capitalism in the south;
- How the Great Geographical Discoveries changed the world and human consciousness;
- How the military revolution and the emergence of firearms are related to the formation of the modern state;
- How religious wars captured Europe in the 16th-17th centuries;
- How the two most important revolutions in European history happened: English and French.
Lecture 4.
19th century
lecturer: Sofia Shirogorova
Strictly speaking, the main processes of the 19th century began immediately after the French Revolution and ended during the First World War. Between these events there was a whole series of changes and development, which we call modernization. What is it, at what point did different states enter into this process, and was it completed? Let's find out:
• Why Napoleon still lost the European war;
• What is the Vienna political system and how did the concept of a great power appear;
• How national movements arose in Germany, Italy, France;
• What is the “spring of nations”;
• What was the atmosphere like in Victorian England?
Lecture 5.
The end of the century era
lecturer: Sofia Shirogorova
The end of the 19th century prepared society for the event that reshaped old Europe - the First World War. At the lecture we will talk about how scientific progress and public sentiment influenced the course of history. We will also find out:
• How industrialization and railroads changed the world in the 19th century;
• How colonialism developed and Orientalism appeared;
• Why did a war break out for the first time and involve the whole world;
• How the First World War led to the death of the old world.
Lecture 6.
At the turn of the century: seminar
lecturer: Sofia Shirogorova
This lesson will be held in the format of a seminar: we will try to analyze how the world was rebuilt at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. We will send you the task in advance, and the lecturer will go over it at the webinar.
Let’s practice working like historians: not just learning ready-made facts, but forming our opinions based on authentic historical documents.
We will learn to correctly pose a problem, ask the right questions, draw our own conclusions and discuss a given historical topic.
Lecture 7.
Short 20th century
lecturer: Sofia Shirogorova
The 20th century saw a lot: the death of empires, the end of colonialism, many wars and scientific and technological progress. All this has brought a colossal shift in the worldview and life of society. At the lecture we will try to understand the events that created the world as we see it now. Let's find out:
- What revolutions in lifestyle awaited society between the two world wars;
- How Europe found itself on the verge of a new world war in just 20 years;
- What is the “European Civil War”?
- How the events of 1939-1945 unfolded on a global scale;
- What social movements arise in the second half of the 20th century;
- What is neoliberalism of the 70s and why the British are afraid of the name Margaret Thatcher;
- How the Cold War proceeded;
- What led to the creation of the European Union.
Department: Faculty of History. Advanced training program. Form of study: Correspondence using distance learning technologies
Understand the major conflicts of the 20th century and discover how they shaped our modernity.
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