Department of Southern and Western Slavic History

Detailed information

Department Head: Professor G.F.Matveev.

The main fields of research and specialization for students of the department cover the period from the Seventh to the Twentieth Centuries. They include the history of:

• State Systems and State Institutions

• Political Processes, Relations, Parties and Organizations; Political Thought

• Economic Processes, the Reformation and Counter-Reformation

• Churches, the Interaction of World Religions in Slavic Regions, Heresies

• Social Thought

• Traditional and Modern Cultures, Education, International Relations and the Place of the Slavic States in International Relations

• Relations of Slavic Peoples with their Neighbors

• Interslavic Relations

• History of Slavic Studies

• Slavic and Russian Emigration in Slavic Countries

• Methodology of Ethno-Historical Studies