Courses

Americanist Pavel Dubravsky analyzes the phenomenon of Donald Trump: from his first steps in big business to his return to the White House despite defeat, criminal cases, and two assassination attempts. What principles and strategies transformed a man with no political experience into a figure who rewrote the rules of American politics? A course on the character, mistakes, and decisions that made Trump who he is, and on which of these lessons work far beyond politics.

Misty autumnal Petersburg. A well-fed artist, enamored with the beauty of the city, encounters a homeless boy—hungry, proud, bristling like a wolf cub. The boy asks, "Take me with you." Out of whim and curiosity, the artist takes him—partly as a servant, partly as a picturesque "model." Behind the anecdote of the meeting of two worlds, the well-fed and the impoverished, lies a bitter question: is it possible to tame a wolf cub, and what will this endeavor cost both of them?

The specialist in Roman history of Antiquity, Nikita Tsybikov, suggests tracing the political history of Rome from the first symptoms of the crisis of the republican model in the second half of the 2nd century BC to the decline of the rule of the first dynasty of emperors from the Julio-Claudian family in the second half of the 1st century AD.

The history of the Weimar Republic is inextricably linked with the history of political parties. Like the republic itself, these parties did not appear out of nowhere and did not disappear into oblivion. The roots of most of them lay in the Kaiserreich, and after a 12-year Nazi hiatus, most were reestablished or served as the foundation for the creation of new parties that defined the political life of both German states in the second half of the 20th century.