On November 1 through 13, 2010, St.Petersburg arranged a cultural and educational program on history and culture of St.Petersburg and Russia for the teachers of history and Russian language among the compatriots living abroad, within the framework of the Program of St.Petersburg Government on the implementation of Russian Federation state policy concerning the compatriots living abroad.
On November 1 through 13, 2010, St.Petersburg arranged a cultural and educational program on history and culture of St.Petersburg and Russia for the teachers of history and Russian language among the compatriots living abroad, within the framework of the Program of St.Petersburg Government on the implementation of Russian Federation state policy concerning the compatriots living abroad.
The delegations, invited to attend the event, were formed in cooperation with the diplomatic missions of Russian Federation abroad. Participants of the programs became 20 Russians from Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, and Ukraine.
The purpose of the program was making the compatriots familiar with the history and culture of Russia and St.Petersburg, as well as the establishing the stable international relations with the historical motherland.
The participants listened to the lectures on the history of Russia devoted to the turning-point events of Russian history of the XX century. The lectures were given by the leading specialists from St.Petersburg State Hermitage Museum, St.Petersburg Institute of History at Russian Academy of Sciences, St.Petersburg State University, St.Petersburg State University of Culture and Arts, St.Petersburg University of Telecommunications named after Professor Bonch-Bruevich.
The program of lectures:
• Russia in the early XX century.: 1900 – February 1917: “Images of the royal family during the First World War”
• The First World War and the Civil War: “The Revolution of 1917 and the Russian Civil War: Myths and the Real History”.
• The economy under the dictatorship of the RCP (b)–VKP (b): From Military Communism to the Stalin’s five-year periods. Nation-building: “Military Communism in Russia: Socio-economic Policy of Building Socialism in the Early Years of Soviet Rule."
• One-party dictatorship. Gulag. Attempt to create a new culture. Church: from the attempt to destroy it to becoming a part of the state system: “Russian Orthodox Church in the Soviet Union – the Controversial and Problematic Issues of History”.
• Soviet Union during World War II: Causes of participation, national and international consequences: “Controversial Aspects and Problems of the Great Patriotic War”.
• From Khrushchev Thaw to an irreversible crisis of the system. The Cold War: “The Time of Missed Opportunities”.
• Russian emigration and Soviet Russia in the XX century.: "Controversial Problems of the History of Russian Emigration in the XX century – the Situation, Speculations, and Falsifications”.
• Russia Post-perestroika: "Russia’s Foreign Policy in the Late XX – Early XXI Century”.
• Discussion questions the history of Russia of XX century. The problems of falsification of history: Problems of Falsifying the History of Russia: Confirmation and Denial of the Historical Events and Phenomena”.
As part of the program, the compatriots visited the sites and museums most significant for the history of St.Petersburg: Peter and Paul Fortress, Hermitage, Smolny Institut, The State Museum of Russian Political History, Apartment-museum of S.M. Kirov, Apartment-museum of A.S. Pushkin, Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House), and Mikhaylovskiy Theatre, got acquainted with the foundations of the Presidential Library named after B.N. Yeltsin, and had the opportunity to work in Russian National Library and the Memorial Library named after G.V. Golitsyn.
Source: Committee for External Relations of St.Petersburg