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Week 1. Eastern European nationalism and the postwar
settlements.
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Reading:
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Rothschild,
East Central Europe , pp. 3-26;
137-51; |
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Raymond Pearson, chap. 6, "A New Europe?" (course packet);
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maps in Magocsi, pp. 125-51 (on reserve at Knight; pay especial attention to
the map on p. 150). |
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Mon., Mar. 29 Introduction |
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Wed., Mar. 31 Civil wars after the Great War: Poland, Hungary (Rothschild). |
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Fri., Apr. 2 Fragile new order: the creation of Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia and the politics of
ethnicity (discussion of Pearson) |
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Week 2. Eastern European
economy and politics.
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Reading:
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East
Central Europe , 27-72, 151-201. |
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Mon., Apr. 5 Land reform
and the peasant question ( map quiz ) |
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Wed., Apr. 7 Economy and society, cont. The Great Depression; peasant politics;
peasants and nation. |
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Fri., Apr. 9 Politics and culture in east-central
Europe: Poland, Hungary |
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Week 3. Politics in
interwar Eastern Europe: from
parliamentarism to authoritarianism.
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Reading:
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East Central Europe ,
73-136, 281-322 (graduate students:
73-136, 201-366); |
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Ezra
Mendelsohn, "Relations Between Jews and
Non-Jews in Eastern Europe Between the Two World Wars," (course packet). |
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Mon., Apr. 12 Politics in
the Balkans: Royal dictatorships and
radical conspiracies |
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Wed., Apr. 14 Fascism in Eastern Europe: native movements, German minorities,
anti-Semitism (discussion of Mendelsohn). |
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Fri., Apr. 16 At the crossroads of Europe: Czechoslovakia |
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Week 4. World War
II.
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Readings:
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Rothschild,
Return to Diversity , chap. 2; |
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Pearson, chap. 7, "War and the
Minorities" (course packet); |
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Kazimierz
Wyka, "The Excluded
Economy" (course packet); |
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maps in
Magocsi, 152-9 (on reserve). |
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Mon., Apr. 19 The
Hitler-Stalin treaty; German occupation of Poland and the policy of
"unlimited exploitation" (discussion of Wyka) |
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Wed., Apr. 21 Occupied Poland and the Jews: ghettoization, resistance, genocide
(discussion of Pearson). |
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Fri., Apr. 23 World War II as civil war in Yugoslavia |
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Week 5. The communist
takeovers.
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Readings:
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Return to Diversity , chap. 3. |
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Mon., Apr. 26 Midterm
exam |
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Wed., Apr. 28 Red Army "liberation" and the
origins of the Cold War. |
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Fri., Apr. 30 No class ; reschedule for 2-hour film All My Good Countrymen (Vojtech Jasny, 1968) |
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Week 6. Stalinism.
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Readings:
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Gross, "A Note on the Nature of Soviet Totalitarianism"
(course packet); |
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Skilling, "Stalinism and Czechoslovak Political
Culture" (course packet); |
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Return
to Diversity , chap. 4; From Stalinism
to Pluralism , 43-78; |
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Magocsi, 160-8 (on reserve). |
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Mon., May 3 Discussion of
film; discussion of Gross, "A Note." |
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Wed., May 5 Land reform, collectivization, social
welfare. |
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Fri., May 7 Stalinist political machinations: Stalin-Tito rift, purges (discussion of
Skilling,
Rothschild, documents). |
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Week 7.
Destalinization.
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Readings:
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Return to Diversity chaps.
5-6; |
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From Stalinism to Pluralism , 81-93, 100-105,
122-36. |
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Mon., May 10 Stalin's
death and the "New Course"; Hungary and Poland, 1956 (discussion of
documents pp. 81-93, 100-105). |
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Wed., May 12 Czechoslovakia, 1968; the Brezhnev doctrine;
army and society in Eastern Europe (discussion of documents pp. 122-36) |
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Fri., May 14 Women in communist Eastern Europe |
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Week 8. Society and
culture in communist Eastern Europe.
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Reading:
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Havel, "The Power
of the Powerless," in Open Letters
, 125-214; |
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From Stalinism to Pluralism
, 183-92; |
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independent reading for Havel papers. |
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Mon., May 17 Discussion of
Havel, "The Power of the Powerless." |
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Wed., May 19 Consumer society: the communist social contract and the culture of shortages
(discussion of documents) |
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Fri., May 21 Civil society, dissidents, and the Church
(discussion of documents pp. 193-203). |
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Week 9. The revolutions
of 1989.
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Readings:
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From Stalinism to Pluralism , 193-215; |
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Stokes,
The Walls Came Tumbling Down
(begin). |
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Mon., May 24
Solidarity. (discussion of
documents pp. 204-215, film clip from Wajda,
Man of Iron ) Paper due |
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Wed., May 26 The revolutions of 1989 (discussion of
Stokes) |
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Fri., May 28 The revolutions of 1989 (discussion of
Stokes) |
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Week 10. Brave new
world.
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Readings:
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The Walls Came Tumbling Down (finish); |
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Havel, "New Year's
Address," in Open Letters ,
390-96; |
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Magocsi, 140, 173-6. |
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Mon., May 31 Memorial
Day: No class |
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Wed., June 2 The breakup of Yugoslavia |
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Fri., June 4 Conclusion |
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Final exam (maps,
identification, short answer, and essay questions). |