At the end of this course, the students; 1) have the knowledge about the Central Asian societies and cultures. 2) understand the social, cultural and political changes caused by the transition to a market economy. 3) discuss the socio-political conflicts in the region.
MODE OF DELIVERY
Face to face
PRE-REQUISITES OF THE COURSE
No
RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL PROGRAMME COMPONENT
There is no recommended optional programme component for this course.
COURSE DEFINITION
The course will focus on the former Soviet geography in a broad sense and on Central Asia in a narrow sense. The course aims to examine the independence processes of four former Soviet republics in the Central Asia since 1991 within the frame of certain themes. The course will firstly examine the history of Central Asia and then the political, social, cultural, economic changes and transformations that have taken place in the Central Asia during the Soviet Union period and the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union will be explained. Within this framework, the nations policy of the Soviet Union, collapse of the Soviet Union, post-Soviet nation and state building, language policies followed during nation and state building process, demography, migration, minorities and Islam in post-Soviet Central Asia are among the topics that will be examined in the course.
COURSE CONTENTS
WEEK
TOPICS
1st Week
Informing students about the course, exams, evaluation, and introduction to the course
2nd Week
Central Asia and the Caucasus: Historical Background
3rd Week
Bolshevik Revolution in Central Asia and the Caucasus
4th Week
Ethnic and Political Structure and Nationalities Policy in the Soviet Union I
5th Week
Ethnic and Political Structure and Nationalities Policy in the Soviet Union II
6th Week
The Collapse of the Soviet Union: From Nationalism to Independence
7th Week
The Collapse of the Soviet Union: From Independence to Nationalism
8th Week
MIDTERM EXAM
9th Week
Turkey-South Caucasus States Relations
10th Week
Turkey-Central Asian States Relations
11th Week
Regional Disputes in Central Asia and the Caucasus
12th Week
Color Revolutions in Post-Soviet Geography
13th Week
Analysis of the Russia-Ukraine War in the Context of Regional and International Relations
14th Week
General Evaluation
RECOMENDED OR REQUIRED READING
Beatrice F. Manz, Central Asia in Historical Perspective, 4-27.
Olivier Roy, Yeni Orta Asya ya da Ulusların İmal Edilişi, 7-58.
Olivier Roy, Yeni Orta Asya ya da Ulusların İmal Edilişi, 58-87.
Richard Pipes, The Formation of the Soviet Union, 155-192.
Olivier Roy, Yeni Orta Asya ya da Ulusların İmal Edilişi, 87-129.
Zvi Gitelman, "Development of Ethnicity in the Soviet Union", The Post-Soviet Nations, 220-239.
Francine Hirsch, "The Soviet Union as Work-in-Progress: Ethnographers and the Category Nationality in the 1926, 1937, and 1939 Censuses", 251-279.
Yuri Slezkine, "The USSR as a Communal Apartment, or How a Socialist State Promoted Ethnic Particularism", 414-452.
Serap Toprak, "Sovyet Rusya'nın Milliyetler Politikası: Stalin Dönemi", 119-126.
İbrahim Hasanoğlu, "Homo Sovieticus: SSCB'de Sovyet Halkı İnşası Çabaları", 311-340.
Pal Kolsto, "Nation-Building in the Former Soviet Union", 1-14.
Olivier Roy, Yeni Orta Asya ya da Ulusların İmal Edilişi, 177-197; 219-252.
Robert Lowe, "Nation building and identity in the Kyrgyz Republic", 106-131.
Tom Everett-Heath, "Instability and identity in a post-Soviet World: Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, 181-204.
Ayşegül Aydıngün-Hayati Tüfekçioğlu, "Avrasya'nın Merkezinden Dünyaya Açılan Ülke: Kazakistan", 63-131.
Y. Emre Gürbüz, "Demokrasi ve Otoriterlik Sarkacında: Kırgızistan", 133-219.
Ayşe Kaya, "SSCB Sonrası Coğrafyada Ulus İnşa Süreci: Kazakistan Örneği", 354-378.
Yunus Emre Gürbüz, "Kazakistan'da Bir Ulus-Devlet Kurmak", 191-220.
Andrew Segars, "Nation building in Turkey and Uzbekistan: the use of language and history in the creation of national identity", 80-105.
Çiğdem Balım-Y. Emre Gürbüz, "O'zbekiston Respublikasi: 'Özbek Modeli'", 221-311.
Erdoğan Yıldırım, "Türkmenistan: Aşiretten Ulusa", 397-481.
Shireen Akiner, "The Politicisation of Islam in Postsoviet Central Asia", 97-122.
Olivier Roy, Yeni Orta Asya ya da Ulusların İmal Edilişi, 197-219.
Theodor Tudoroiu, "Rose, Orange, and Tulip: The Failed Post-Soviet Revolutions," 315-342.
Anton Shekhovtsov (2013), "The "Orange revolution" and the "Sacred" Birth of a Civic-republican Ukrainian Nation," 730-743.
PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODS
Lecture,Discussion,Presentation,Project
ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA
Quantity
Percentage(%)
Mid-term
1
30
Presentation of Article
1
20
Total(%)
50
Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%)
50
Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%)
50
Total(%)
100
ECTS WORKLOAD
Activities
Number
Hours
Workload
Midterm exam
1
1
1
Preparation for Quiz
Individual or group work
14
4
56
Preparation for Final exam
1
25
25
Course hours
14
3
42
Preparation for Midterm exam
1
20
20
Laboratory (including preparation)
Final exam
1
1
1
Homework
Presentation (including preperation)
1
10
10
Total Workload
155
Total Workload / 30
5,16
ECTS Credits of the Course
5
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION
Turkish
WORK PLACEMENT(S)
No
KEY LEARNING OUTCOMES (KLO) / MATRIX OF LEARNING OUTCOMES (LO)
