CZS51 History of Central Europe The aim of the course is to describe the historical development of the Central Europe since Middle Age till 20^th Century. The main Focus of the course is to briefly describe the continuity of historical development of the Central Europe. The purpose of the course is to understand the historical continuity of the region (Central Europe) and implement it in the context of General History therefore a prerequisite of at least partial knowledge of the historical - political development of the region is mandatory. Lecturer: Ms. Jana Hrabcova, 104456@mail.muni.cz and Ms. Jana Musilová, 87562@mail.muni.cz Course structure Date Topic February 17 Geopolitics of the Phenomena of the Central Europe. What does it Central Europe mean and what does it consists of? Central Europe or East-Central Europe? The short outline of the history of Central Europe in the Middle Ages – The Great Moravia, The Kingdom of Bohemia, The Emperor Charles IV., the Hussites. February 24 Renaissance of Central Europe, accession of Habsburgs to the Czech Throne. Habsburgs and their Empire in the Central Europe. Catholic church. Thirty Years War and Central Europe. Life: educations, life in the towns and the in the villages. March 3 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. March 10 19th Century: French revolution, Napoleon, Vienna Congress and New Europe, National Renaissance, Saint Alliance, Revolution 1830 and 1848. Austria – Hungary: Dual Monarchy. Life: educations, life in the towns and the in the villages. March 17 Central Europe in the second half of 19th century March 24 Habsburg Monarchy and The German Empire before WWI. Assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand and the outbreak of WWI. World War I. Paris Peace Conference. The Results of the WWI – the new states in the Central Europe. The League of the Nations. March 31 Central Europe between Wars. The Republic of Czechoslovakia and its relations to the neighbors and to the Great Powers. The way towards the WWII. The Munich Agreement. April 7 Mid-term test. World War II. in the Central Europe. Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Czech Resistance to Nazi German Occupation. The Slovak National Uprising. The End of the War and the Liberation of Czechoslovakia. April 14 Central Europe after World War II. The Beneš Decrees. The expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia. Czechoslovakia between 1945 and 1948. February 1948. The Iron Curtain and the Central Europe. The Application of the Soviet political and economic model in Central Europe and its results. April 28 Socialisms in the Central Europe. The Prague Spring, Occupation of Czechoslovakia, Lech Walesa and Solidarity, Kadar´s Communism, 2nd Berlin Crisis, Berlin Wall. Normalization. May 5 Central Europe at the end of the 1980s. The Fall of the Iron Curtain. Dissolution of Czechoslovakia. May 12 A Final Test Course Requirements: Methods of evaluation: A Mid-term Test – 10 questions, 2 points per question, 20 points altogether A Final Test – 15 questions, 2 points per question, 30 points altogether Three absences are possible during the term. To finish the course succesfully and pass an exam, it is necessary to write both the tests. 50 – 46 points – A 45 – 41 points – B 40 – 36 points – C 35 – 31 points – D 30 – 26 points – E 25 – 0 points – F Literature: 1. Lecture Geopolitics of the Phenomena of the Central Europe. What does it Central Europe mean and what does it consists of? Central Europe or East-Central Europe? The short outline of the history of Central Europe in the Middle Ages – The Great Moravia, The Kingdom of Bohemia, The Emperor Charles IV., the Hussites. Readings: · Studia historica Brunensia, volume 54, 2007, p. 39. · Johnson, Lonnie (1996): Where is Central Europe. In.: Central Europe: Enemies, Neighbors, Friends. Oxford University Press, pp. 3 – 12. http://books.google.cz/books?id=e_m13Hk3AFEC&pg=PA302&dq=ivan+b%C3%A9rend+central+europe&hl=cs&ei=h j88TLitNMfdsgaqh6iWAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CDsQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q&f=false Accession of Hapbsburg´s to the Czech Throne, Hapsburg´s Monarchy in Central Europe, Rudolph II., The Thirty Years´War. Readings: · Casper, Max – Hellman, Clarisse, D. (1993): Kepler. New York, pp. 116 – 121. http://books.google.cz/books?id=0r68pggBSbgC&pg=PA149&dq=rudolf+II+emperor&hl=cs&ei=0Vo8TOrFGcuosQb bgunCDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CDgQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q&f=false · Parker, Geoffrey (1991): The Thirty Year ´s War. London – Routledge, pp. 47 – 61. Baroque, Prussia. Charles VI, Pragmatic Sanction and Maria Theresa. Enlightened absolutism, Reforms of Maria Theresa and Joseph II. War of the Austrian Succession, Seven Years' War. Polish–Lithuanian union, Partitions of Poland. Readings: · Abrams, Lynn (1995): Bismarck and the German Empire, 1871 – 1918. Routledge, pp. 1 – 8. http://books.google.cz/books?id=XcRDFrkk-CsC&pg=PA8&dq=germany+18+century+bismarck&hl=cs&ei=O2k8TJ2 zBorbsAb43-zCDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false · Blanning, T. C. W. (1994): Joseph II. Edinburg, pp. 92 – 112. 2. Lecture: Renaissance of Central Europe, accession of Habsburgs to the Czech Throne. Habsburgs and their Empire in the Central Europe. Catholic church. Thirty Years War and Central Europe. Life: educations, life in the towns and the in the villages. Readings: · Emerson, Donald. E. (1968): Metternich and the Political Police: Security and Subversion in the Hapsburg Monarchy: 1815 – 1830. The Haque. · Pradt, Dominique, G. F. M. de (1816): The Congress of Vienna. S. Leight, pp. 121 – 127. http://books.google.cz/books?id=eQAMAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=vienna+congress&hl=cs&ei=I248TP CZF9OhsQbf9fHCDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false · Forrest, Robert. F. (1999): Palacký František. Ed. Boyd K. In.: Encyklopedia of Historians and Historical Writing. Volume 2. Chicago, London, p. 904. http://books.google.cz/books?id=D-atVuWxij8C&pg=PA904&dq=boyd+kelly+palack%C3%BD&hl=cs&ei=pXs8TJbeJ NTgsAa5xf3CDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCwQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false · Berend,T. Ivan (2003): History Derailed. Central and Eastern Europe in the Long Nineteenth Century. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London, pp. 258 – 264. · Nicolson, Harold (1961): The Congress of Vienna: a Study in Allied Unity 1812 - 1822. London, pp. 242 – 258. 3. Lecture: 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. Readings: · Howard, Michael (2007): The First World War: a Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, pp. – maps. http://books.google.cz/books?id=HsjsqcDtgCoC&printsec=frontcover&dq=world+war+first&hl=cs&ei=pXk8TO jXEOelsQbswuXCDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false 4. Lecture: 19th Century: French revolution, Napoleon, Vienna Congress and New Europe, National Renaissance, Saint Alliance, Revolution 1830 and 1848. Austria – Hungary: Dual Monarchy. Life: educations, life in the towns and the in the villages. 5. Lecture Habsburg Monarchy and The German Empire before WWI. Assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand and the outbreak of WWI. World War I. Paris Peace Conference. The Results od the WWI – the new states in the Central Europe. The League of the Nations. Readings: · Mango, Anthony –Osmanczyk, Edmund J. (2003): Encyklopedia of the United Nations and International Agreements: G to M. Routledge, p. 1497. http://books.google.cz/books?id=fSIMXHMdfkkC&pg=PA1498&dq=munich+agreement&hl=cs&ei=YoU8TNmyNtO7jAe s3ci3AQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDUQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=munich%20agreement&f=fal se 6. Lecture Habsburg Monarchy and The German Empire before WWI. Assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand and the outbreak of WWI. World War I. Paris Peace Conference. The Results of the WWI – the new states in the Central Europe. The League of the Nations. 7. Lecture Central Europe between Wars. The Republic of Czechoslovakia and its relations to the neighbors and to the Great Powers. The way towards the WWII. The Munich Agreement. Readings: · Lee, Stephan. J.: European Dictatorships 1918 – 1945. pp. 178 – 187. · Lukes, Igor (1996): Czechoslovakia between Stalin and Hitler. The Diplomacy of Edvard Beneš in the 1930´s. Oxford University Press, pp. 67 – 91. http://books.google.com/books?id=7HPp4JRiZqEC&printsec=frontcover&dq=czechoslovakia+world+war+secon d&hl=cs&ei=UwxDTNG1G9iU4gal5P3PDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CEwQ6AEwBw#v=onepage& q=czechoslovakia%20world%20war%20second&f=false · Hrabal, Bohumil (2007): I served the King of England. New Directions Publishing Corporation. http://books.google.com/books?id=RxPTntt8t3kC&dq=world+war+second+czechoslovakia&hl=cs&ei=ARxDTMf5H pD14Aa4m6DJDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9&ved=0CFIQ6AEwCA 8. Lecture and Mid-term test World War II. in the Central Europe. Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Czech Resistance to Nazi German Occupation. The Slovak National Uprising. The End of the War and the Liberation of Czechoslovakia. 9. Lecture Central Europe after World War II. The Beneš Decrees. The expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia. Czechoslovakia between 1945 and 1948. February 1948. The Iron Curtain and the Central Europe. The Application of the Soviet political and economical model in Central Europe and its results. Readings: · 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. 10. Lecture Socialisms in the Central Europe. The Prague Spring, Occupation of Czechoslovakia, Lech Walesa and Solidarity, Kadar´s Communism, 2nd Berlin Crisis, Berlin Wall. Normalization. Readings: · Congdon, Lee (2006): 1956: the Hungarian Revolution and the War for Indepedence. Edd.: Congdo, L. – Király, B. K. – Nagy, K. Boulder, pp. 95 -127. · Mastný Vojtěch: Helsinky, Human Rights and European Security.pp. 48, 143 – 152. · Kramer, Marek (1998):The Prague Spring 1968: a National Security Archive Documents Reader. Central European University Press - Budapest, pp. 98, 401 – 403. 11. Lecture Central Europe at the end of the 1980s. The Fall of the Iron Curtain. Dissolution of Czechoslovakia. The Czech Republic in 1990s. The Central Europe in 1990s. Central Europe and EU. Readings: · 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. · Mastný, Vojtěch (1996): The Cold War and Soviet Insecurity: the Stalin Years. Oxford University Press, pp. 178 - 185 12. Lecture Revision. Controversies in the Czech History. Readings: · Balwin, Richard E. (1997): The Costs and Benefits of Eastern Enlagrement: the Impact on the Eu and Central Europe. S. N., p. 69. · 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. · Poole, Peter, P. (2003): Europe Unites: the EU´s Eastren Enlagrement. Westport, pp. 31 – 52, 65 – 80. · 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. 13. Lecture A final test Further literature and references Anneli, Albi. EU Enlargement and the Constitutions of Central and Eastern Europe. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Armstrong, Warwick - Anderson, James : Geopolitics of European Union Enlargement : the fortress empire. Routledge 2007. Baldwin, Richard E. The Costs and Benefits of Eastern Enlargement: the Impact on the EU and Central Europe. Sl: sn, 1997.Strachan, Hew. Financing the World War I. Oxford: Oxford University Press, c2004. Bátonyi, Gábor : Britain and Central Europe 1918 – 1933. Budapest 1999. Berend, Iván, T.: Decades of crisis: Central and Eastern Europe before World War II. University of California Press, 2001. Berend, Iván, T.: Central and Eastern Europe, 1944 – 1993: Detour from the Periphery to the Periphery. Cambridge 1996. Bideleux, Robert – Jeffries, Ian : A History of Eastern Europe: Crisis and Change. Routledge 2007. Clarke, David and Wölfel, Ute. Remembering the German Democratic Republic: Divided Memory in a United Germany. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. Cipkowski, Peter. Revolution in Eastern Europe: Understanding the Collapse of Communism in Poland, Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Romania, and the Soviet Union. New York: John Wiley & Sons, c1991. Chapman, Tim : The Congress of Vienna: Origins, Processes and Results. Routledge 1998. Chronowski, Nóra and Drinóczi, Tímea and Takács, Tamara. Governmental systems of Central and Eastern European states. Warszawa: Oficyna, 2011. Davis, Norman: Europe: a History. Harper, Perennial 1998. Dawson, Andrew, H. – Fawn, Rick : The Changing Geopolitics of Eastern Europe. Potrland, Oregon 2002. Doležalová, Eva and Pánek, Jaroslav. Confession and nation in the era of reformations: Central Europe in comparative perspective Prague: Institute of History, 2011. Don, Yehuda – Karády, Viktor (1990): A Social and Economical History of the Central Europe Jewry. New Brunswick – New Jersey. Dukes, Paul : Paths to a new Europe. Basingstoke: Palgrave 2004. Flora, Peter : State Formation, Nation Building, and Mass Politics in Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press 1999. Francis W. Carter, Peter Jordan, Violette Rey : Central Europe after the Fall of the Iron Curtain: Geopolitical Perspectives, Spatial Patterns and Trends. Lang 1998. Frommer, Benjamin. National Cleansing: Retribution against Nazi Collaborators in Postwar Czechoslovakia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Guthrie, William P.: Battles of the Thirty Years War: from White Mountain to Nordlingen 1618 – 1635. 2002. Heiss, Mary Ann and Papacosma, S. Victor. NATO and the Warsaw Pact: intrabloc conflicts. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, c2008. Holzer, Snyder and Timothy, Bloodlands. Europe between Hitler and Stalin. London: Bodley Head, 2010. Johnson, Lonnie: Central Europe: Enemies, Neighbors, Friends. Oxford University Press, 1996. Joll, James. The origins of the World War I. London: Longman, 1992. New York. Kaluzynska, Malgorzata and Smyk, Katarzyna and Wisniewski, James. 5 years of Poland in the European Union. Warsaw: Office of the Committee for European Integration, 2009. Killingsworth, Matt. Civil society in Communist Eastern Europe: opposition and dissent in totalitarian regression. Colchester: ECPR Press, 2012. LeCaine Agnew, Hugh : The Czechs and the Lands of the Bohemian Crown. Stanford University, 2004. Lee, Stephan, J.: Aspects of European History, 1789 – 1980. Routledge, 1982. Lukes, Igor. Czechoslovakia Between Stalin and Hitler: the diplomacy of Edvard Beneš in the 1930s. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. Magosci, Paul, R.: Historical Atlas of Central Europe. University of Washington Press, 2002. Merja, Kuus. Geopolitics Reframed: Security and identity in Europe's Eastern Enlargement. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Minkenberg, Michael. Historical Legacies and the radical right in post-Cold War Central and Eastern Europe. Stuttgart: Ibidem -Verlag, 2010. Nicolson, Harold: The Congress of Vienna: A Study in Allied Unity: 1812 – 1822. New York, 2002. Ott, Andrea – Inglis, Kirstyn: Handbook on European Enlargement: A Contempory on the Enlargement Process. T. M.C. ASSER Press, 2002. Pollack, Detlef – Wielgohs, Jan : Dissent and Opposition in Communist Eastern Europe: Origin of Civil Society and Democratic Transition. ASHAGATE, 2004. Pusca, Anca : European Union: Challanges and Promises of a new Enlargement. New York, 2004. Roberts, Andrew. The storm of war: a new history of the Second World War. London: Penguin Books, 2010. Robert, Frank and Kumiko Haba Hiroshi & momos. The end of the Cold war and the regional integration in Europe and Asia. Kyoto: Nakanishi printing, 2010. Ross, Cameron: Perspectives on the Enlargement of the European Union. Lieden, Boston, Koln, Brill 2002. Rothschild, Joseph. East Central Europe Between the two World Wars. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1998. Saxonberg, Steven, The Fall: a Comparative study of the End of Communism in Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary and Poland. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, c2001. Trachtenberg, Marc. The Cold War and after: history, theory, and the logic of international politics. Princeton: Princeton University Press, c2012. Tuma, Oldřich and Jindra, Jiří. Czechoslovakia and Romania in the Versailles System. Prague: Institute for Contemporary History of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, 2006. Wilson, Peter, H. (2000): Absolutism in Central Europe. Routledge. Videos (example only) and Museum visits: August 21 st 1968 in Czechoslovakia: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUaMkQAYQNw Battle of Verdun: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWJB6Y-3N5o Gulags: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=gulag&oq=gulag&gs_l=youtube-reduced.1.0.0l4.153304.1559 65.0.158400.5.5.0.0.0.0.267.1033.0j2j3.5.0...0.0.FtvGfTSW5cA Hungary 1956 http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=hungarina+revolution+1956&oq=hungarina+revolution+1956& gs_l=youtube-reduced.3...11872.22449.0.23135.25.25.0.0.0.0.359.4007.7j10j6j2.25.0...0.0.u5hQeYXufMQ John Kennedy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hH6nQhss4Yc Milada Horáková: http://coldwarradios.blogspot.cz/2010/11/i-leave-this-world-without-hatred.html http://www.radio.cz/en/section/archives/milada-horakova-dignity-in-the-face-of-fanaticism-1 Solidarity: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peT3-xSzj08 Winston Churchill - Iron Curtain Fulton: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsWw9ij8hcA&feature=fvst Contacts Ms. Jana Hrabcova Department of History Faculty of Arts Arne Nováka 1 602 00 Brno Ms. Jana Musilova Department of History Faculty of Arts Arne Nováka 1 602 00 Brno