Department of Southern and Western Slavic History
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