CZS51 History of the Central Europe

Celouniverzitní studia
jaro 2012
Rozsah
2/0. 6 kr. Ukončení: zk.
Vyučující
Mgr. Jana Škerlová, Ph.D. (přednášející)
Garance
Mgr. Martin Vašek
Kontaktní osoba: Mgr. Martin Vašek
Dodavatelské pracoviště: Celouniverzitní studia
Rozvrh
Po 20. 2. až Pá 25. 5. Út 15:50–17:25 J22; a St 25. 4. 15:50–17:20 K33
Předpoklady
CZS51 History of Central Europe Lecturer: Jana Musilová Outline of the course Course structure Date Topic February 22 Introduction, general information about the course. „Phenomenon of Central Europe”. What does “Central Europe” mean? March 1 Franzis II. Napoleonic Wars. The Congress of Vienna. Holly Alliance. Revolution 1848 in Habsburg Monarchy. Austria – Hungry: Dual Monarchy. Emergency of German Empire. March 8 Habsburg Monarchy and German Empire before WWI. Assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand and the out break of WWI. WWI. Results of WWI. Paris Peace Conference. League of Nation. March 15 Central Europe before WWII. March 22 Central Europe and WWII. March 29 Mid term test. April 5 Central Europe after WWII (Iron Curtain, Cold War,…) April 12 Application of the Soviet political and economic model in Central Europe. April 19 Prague Spring, Occupation of Czechoslovakia, Lech Walese and Solidarity, Kadar´s Communism, 2nd Berlin Crisis, Berlin Wall. Normalization. April 26 Fall of the Iron Curtain. May 3 Central Europe after 1989. NATO, EU and Central Europe. May 10 Taboo in Czech History I. May 17 Taboo in Czech History II. May 24 Final test. Course Requirements: Active class participation – 60% class attendance Exam: Mid term test – 75% Exam: Final test – 75% Reading – part of the tests!!! Bibliography: Balwin, Richard E. (1997): The Costs and Benefits of Eastern Enlagrement: the Impact on the Eu and Central Europe. S. N., p. 69. Berend,T. Ivan (2003): History Derailed. Central and Eastern Europe in the Long Nineteenth Century. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London, pp. 258 – 264. Breska, Eric von (1998): Costs, Benefits and Chances of Eastren Enlargement for the European Union. Gutersloh. O´Brennan, John (2006): The Eastren Enlargement of the european Union. Routledge - New York. Congdon, Lee (2006): 1956: The Hungarian Revolution and the War for Indepedence. Edd.: Congdo, L. – Király, B. K. – Nagy, K. Boulder, pp. 95 -127. Emerson, Donald. E. (1968): Metternich and the Political Police: Security and Subversion in the Hapsburg Monarchy: 1815 – 1830. The Haque. Enderle – Burcel, Gertrude (2009): Gaps in the Iron Curtain: Economics Realtions between Neutral and Socialist Countries in Cold War. Krakow, Jagiellonian University, pp. 165 – 180. Friedman, Norman (2007): The Fifty Year War: Conflict and Strategy in the Cold War. Naval Institute Press, pp. 70 – 90. Gaddis, Lewis, J. (2005): The Cold War: a New History. Penguin Press, New York. Hrabal, Bohumil (2007): I served the King of England. New Directions Publishing Corporation. Kramer, Marek (1998): The Prague Spring 1968: a National Security Archive Documents Reader. Central European University Press - Budapest, pp. 98, 401 – 403. Lee, Stephan. J.: European Dictatorships 1918 – 1945. pp. 178 – 187. Mastný, Vojtěch: Helsinky, Human Rights and European Security.pp. 48, 143 – 152. Mastný, Vojtěch (1996): The Cold War and Soviet Insecurity: the Stalin Years. Oxford University Press, pp. 178 – 185. Nicolson, Harold (1961): The Congress of Vienna: a Study in Allied Unity 1812 - 1822. London, pp. 242 – 258. Poole, Peter, P. (2003): Europe Unites: the EU´s Eastren Enlagrement. Westport, pp. 31 – 52, 65 – 80. Rothschild, Joseph (2008): Return to Diversity: a Political History of East Central Europe since World War II. New York – Oxford University Press, pp. 75 – 124. Sperling, James (1999): Two Tiers or two Speeds?: The European Security Order and the Enlargement of the European Union and NATO. Ed. Sperling, J. Manchester University, pp. 121 – 138. Studia historica Brunensia, volume 54, 2007, p. 39. 1. Lecture: Introduction, General Information about the Course. „Phenomenon of Central Europe”. What does “Central Europe” mean? 2. Lecture: Franzis II. Napoleonic Wars. The Congress of Vienna. Holly Alliance. Revolution 1848 in Habsburg Monarchy. Habsburg Authoritarianism and Nationalism in Monarchy. Austria – Hungry: Dual Monarchy. Emergency of German Empire. 3. Lecture: Habsburg Monarchy and German Empire before WWI. Assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand and the Outbreak of WWI. Resistance. WWI. Results of WWI. Succession States. Paris Peace Conference. League of Nation. 4. Lecture: Central Europe before WWII. Pland: Restoraion of the Polish Stathood. Czech – Polish Territorial Disputes. J. Pilsudki, J. Beck. Nazi Invasion of Poland and the Outbreak of WWII. Germany: The Wiemar Republic, A. Hitler as the Chancellor, Night of the Long Knives, Occupation of demilitarized Rhineland, Crystal Night, Non – Aggression Pact. Hungary: Hungarian Soviet Republic, Hungarian Kingdom, Treaty of Trianon, Ecomonic Crisis, G. Gombos, Vienna Arbitration. Czechoslovakia: First Republic, Munich Agreement. 5. Lecture: Central Europe and WWII. Poland: Nazi Inavasion. Bohemia and Moravia: Annexation of Sudetenland, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, Assassination of R. Heydrich, National Uprising, Czechoslovak Government in the Exile. Hungary: Member of the Axis Powers. Slovak State: Satellite of Nazi Germany, Slovak State, National Uprising. 6. Lecture: Mid term test. 7. Lecture: Central Europe after WWII. Iron Curtain, Emergence of People´s Socialist Republics, Cold War. 8. Lecture: Application of the Soviet political and economic model in Central Europe. Planning Economy, Emphasis on Heavy Industry. 9. Lecture: Prague Spring, Occupation of Czechoslovakia, Lech Walese and Solidarity, Kadar´s Communism, 2nd Berlin Crisis, Berlin Wall. Normalization. 10. Lecture: Fall of the Iron Curtain. 11. Lecture: Central Europe after 1989. NATO, EU and Central Europe. 12. Lecture: Taboo in Czech History I. 13. Lecture: Taboo in Czech History II. 14. Lecture: Final test. Contact: Jana Musilová Department of History Faculty of Arts Arne Nováka 1, 602 00 Brno Email: 87562@mail.muni.cz
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  • The main aim of this course is to briefly intorduce the History of the Central Europe from 16th Century till today. The very important part of the course will be devoted to the events of 20th century – esp. World War I and II, Central Europe after World War II and the establishment of Socialism in the Central Europe, Socialisms, Fall of the Iron Curtain, Central Europe and EU.
Vyučovací jazyk
Angličtina
Informace učitele
1.Intoduction: Geopolitics of the Phnenomen of the Central Europe. What does it Central Europe mean? Renaissance of Cental Europe, accession of Hapsburgs to the Czech Throne. Hapsburgs and thein Empire in the Central Europe. Catholic church. Thirty Years War and Central Europe. Life: educations, life in the towns and the in the villages.
2.Baroque of the Central Europe, Wars of the Hapsburg´s monarchy, Enlightenment and reforms. Life: educations, life in the towns and the in the villages.
3.19th Century: French revolution, Napoleon, Vienna Congress and New Europe, National Renaissance, Saint Alliance, Revolution 1830 and 1848. Life: educations, life in the towns and the in the villages.
4.World War I and Cental Europe between Wars.
5.World War II.
6.Central Europe after World War II.
7.Socialismus in the Central Europe.
8.Fall of the Iron Curtain.
9.Central Europe and EU.
A midterm test and a final test will be announced in the course of the semester.
Literature: • Armstrong, Warwick - Anderson, James (2007): Geopolitics of European Union enlargement : the fortress empire. Routledge.
• Bátonyi, Gábor (1999): Britain and Central Europe 1918 – 1933.
• Berend, Iván, T. (2001): Decades of crisis: Central and Eastern Europe before World War II. University of California Press.
• Berend, Iván, T. (1996): Central and Eastern Europe, 1944 – 1993: Detour from the Periphery to the Periphery. Cambridge.
• Bideleux, Robert – Jeffries, Ian (2007): A History of Eastern Europe: Crisis and Change. Routledge.
• Chapman, Tim (1998): The Congress of Vienna: Origins, Processes and Results. Routledge.
• Davis, Norman (1998). Europe: a History. Harper, Perennial.
• Dawson, Andrew, H. – Fawn, Rick (2002): The Changing Geopolitics of Eastern Europe. Potrland, Oregon.
• Don, Yehuda – Karády, Viktor (1990): A Social and Economical History of the Central Europe Jewry. New Brunswick – New Jersey.
• Dukes, Paul (2004): Paths to a new Europe. Basingstoke: Palgrave.
• Flora, Peter (ed.) (1999): State Formation, Nation Building, and Mass Politics in Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Francis W. Carter, Peter Jordan, Violette Rey (1998): Central Europe after the Fall of the Iron Curtain: Geopolitical Perspectives, Spatial Patterns and Trends. Lang.
• Guthrie, William P. (2002): Battles of the Thirty Years War: from White Montain to Nordlingen 1618 – 1635.
• Johnson, Lonnie (1996): Central Europe: Enemies, Neighbors, Friends. Oxford University Press.
• LeCaine Agnew, Hugh (2004): The Czechs and the Lands of the Bohemian Crown. Stanford University.
• Lee, Stephan, J. (1982): Aspects of European History, 1789 – 1980. Routledge.
• Magosci, Paul, R. (2002): Historical Atlas of Central Europe. University of Washington Press.
• Nicolson, Harold (2000): The Congress of Vienna: A Study in Allied Unity: 1812 – 1822. New York.
• Ott, Andrea – Inglis, Kirstyn (ed.) (2002): Handbook on European Enlargement: A Contempory on the Enlargement Process. T. M.C. ASSER Press.
• Ross, Cameron (2002): Perspectives on the Enlargement of the European Union. Lieden, Boston, Koln, Brill.
• Pollack, Detlef – Wielgohs, Jan (2004): Dissent and Opposition in Communist Eastern Europe: Origin of Civil Society and Democratic Transition. ASHAGATE.
• Pollack, Detlef (2003): Political Culture in post – communist Europe: Attitudes in new Democracies. ASHAGATE.
• Pusca, Anca (2004): European Union: Challanges and Promises of a new Enlargement. New York.
• Stone, Daniel (2001): The Polish – Lithuanian State, 1386 – 1795. University of Washington Press.
• Wilson, Peter, H. (2000): Absolutism in Central Europe. Routledge.
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