SDEb1009 Central and Eastern Europe After 1989

Faculty of Social Studies
Autumn 2024

The course is not taught in Autumn 2024

Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Jan Holzer, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Jan Holzer, Ph.D.
Department of Political Science – Faculty of Social Studies
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The aim of the subject is to acquaint students with the development of the so-called post-communist countries after 1989. The political, economic and social realities of the countries of the four areas (Central Europe, post-Soviet Slavic republics, the Baltics, South-Eastern Europe) after 1989 will be described and analysed, with an emphasis on the characteristic and transnational tendencies, on the one hand, on anomalies within this set.
Learning outcomes
students will be able to after completing the course: - Explain the phenomenon of post-communism; - identify the main characteristics of the development of the so-called post-communist countries after 1989; - describe the main characteristic features of the development of the individual countries of the given areas.
Syllabus
  • 1. Introduction. 2. Notions communism and post-communism. 3. Central Europe as a historical phenomenon. 4. Slovakia. 5. Poland. 6. Hungary. 7. Post-Soviet Eastern Europe: Russia, Ukraine and Belarus – collapse of Soviet structures and transition. 8. Post-Soviet Eastern Europe: Russia, Ukraine and Belarus – 1990s. 9. Post-Soviet Eastern Europe: Russia, Ukraine and Belarus – 21 century. 10. Baltic states. 11. South-Eastern Europe: collapse of Yugoslavia, war conflicts, national problems. 12. Slovenia and Croatia. 13. Bulgaria and Rumenia.
Literature
    required literature
  • HOLZER, Jan, Miroslav MAREŠ, Pavel DUFEK, Vlastimil HAVLÍK, Michal MOCHŤAK, Aneta PINKOVÁ, Andrew Lawrence ROBERTS, Petra VEJVODOVÁ and Petr KUPKA. Challenges To Democracies in East Central Europe. London: Routledge, 2016, 145 pp. Routledge Advances in European Politics, sv. 127. ISBN 978-1-138-65596-6. URL info
  • TOMINI, Luca. Democratizing Central and Eastern Europe : successes and failures of the European Union. First published. London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015, xiv, 180. ISBN 9781138716643. info
  • Twenty years after communism : the politics of memory and commemoration. Edited by Michael H. Bernhard - Jan Kubik. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014, xviii, 362. ISBN 9780199375141. info
  • MAREŠ, Miroslav and Štěpán VÝBORNÝ. Militantní demokracie ve střední Evropě (Militant Democracy in Central Europe). 1st ed. Brno: Centrum pro studium demokracie a kultury, 2013, 249 pp. Politologická řada. ISBN 978-80-7325-326-4. info
  • Politics, history and collective memory in East Central Europe. Edited by Zdzisław Krasnodębski - Stefan Garsztecki - Rüdiger Ritter - John R. Hamburg: Krämer, 2012, 400 s. ISBN 9783896221100. info
  • East and West : history and contemporary state of eastern studies : conference Centre for East European Studies ; University of Warsaw, October 26-28, 2008. Edited by Jan Malicki - Leszek Zastowt. Wyd. 1. Warsaw: Centre for East European Studies, University of Warsaw, 2009, 335 s. ISBN 8361325099. info
  • East-Central Europe in European history : themes & debates. Edited by Jerzy Kłoczowski - Hubert Łaszkiewicz. Lublin: IESW, 2009, 499 p. ISBN 9788360695333. info
  • HOLZER, Jan and Stanislav BALÍK. Postkomunistické nedemokratické režimy (Post-Communist Non-Democratic Regimes). první. Brno: Centrum pro studium demokracie a kultury, 2007, 223 pp. Politologická řada - č. 25. ISBN 978-80-7325-128-4. info
  • ZIELONKA, Jan. Democratic consolidation in eastern Europe. 1st pub. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001, xii, 493. ISBN 0199244081. info
  • ANDERSON, Richard. Postcommunism and the theory of democracy. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2001, 201 p. ISBN 0691089175. URL info
  • Demokracje Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej w perspektywie porównawczej. Edited by Andrzej Antoszewski - Ryszard Herbut. Wrocław: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego, 1998, 255 s. ISBN 8322917163. info
  • ÁGH, Attila. The politics of central Europe. 1st pub. London: SAGE Publications, 1998, ix, 244 s. ISBN 0-7619-5032-X. info
  • Politics, power, and the struggle for democracy in south-east Europe. Edited by Karen Dawisha - Bruce Parrott. 1st pub. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997, xx, 472. ISBN 0521597331. info
  • The consolidation of democracy in East-Central Europe. Edited by Karen Dawisha - Bruce Parrott. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997, xx, 389. ISBN 0521599385. info
Teaching methods
lectures, seminaries
Assessment methods
graded participation in seminar discussions (10 %), test (30 %), oral exam (60 %).
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught every week.
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