Master in Global and Regional History
DURATION
2 Years
LANGUAGES
English, Russian
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
03 Aug 2025*
EARLIEST START DATE
01 Sep 2025
TUITION FEES
RUB 330,000 / per year **
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* online applications are accepted for preliminary selection; online candidate interviews will be held with programmes; you have to upload your portfolio to the personal online account before August 10
** per year
Introduction
The course grounds students in the vibrant field of global history through a regional focus on Russian, former Soviet, and Eurasian spaces. It draws on the proximity and wealth of archives and museum collections of St Petersburg and its rich environs, and on our academic strength in history and anthropology. Students benefit from the ease of travel to Moscow, Finland, the Baltics, and multiple regional locations within Russia. Recent graduates are enrolled in Ph.D. programs at Princeton, Oxford, and European University Institute in Florence.
Program Summary
This two-year course grounds students in the vibrant field of global history through a regional focus on Russian, former Soviet, and Eurasian spaces. How do these area studies benefit from the global history paradigm and its key current debates?
How does in turn its classic problem of modern empires and critiques of Eurocentrism benefit from Eurasian regional material and the emerging engagement with the questions of the Anthropocene, histories of gender and economy, studies of science and technology, and religion and secularism? How does global history balance historians’ fundamental commitment to exploring history from below and the emphasis on trans-local and global interconnections and hierarchies?
These questions underpin this program’s core seminars in theory and methodology as well as a broad array of regional courses. These range from the history of St Petersburg to that of personality cults of the 20th century, the Cold War, imperial crossroads in northern Eurasia, the Caucasus, Central, and Eastern Europe, the Arctic as well as Russian/Soviet links with Arica, Asia, Latin America.
The program draws on the proximity and wealth of archives and museum collections of St Petersburg and the diversity of its rich environs. Its students benefit from the ease of travel to Moscow, Finland, the Baltics, and multiple regional locations within Russia. The teaching is culling-edge international research-led and based in HSE St Petersburg excellence in history and anthropology.
Admissions
Curriculum
What You Will Study
Over the course of two years, students are expected to
- take 12 courses comprising 5 core compulsory courses and 7 electives (plus additional 2 courses on academic skills and background, if necessary)
- do research resulting in the first-year paper (aka thesis proposal) and the MA thesis
- do research and museum practicals (as needed for research & training) and additional project work
- take part in the research seminar where theses are discussed
Credits: 120 in total
Program Outcome
Why Us?
History is one of the most exciting subjects to study at university today, and HSE St Petersburg is unmatched as a place to study just as somewhere to be. We are a vibrant and friendly programme, innovative and intellectually inspiring, and proud of making everyone part of a community that extends well beyond the department of history.
We make an excellent bridge to further postgraduate study. Students significantly improve their Russian. Our recent graduates are enrolled in PhD programmes at Princeton, Oxford, and European University Institute, Florence.