Black market in Poland 1944-1989

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Course ID:	3104-WH09KOC
Erasmus code / ISCED:	08.3 Kod klasyfikacyjny przedmiotu składa się z trzech do pięciu cyfr, przy czym trzy pierwsze oznaczają klasyfikację dziedziny wg. Listy kodów dziedzin obowiązującej w programie Socrates/Erasmus, czwarta (dotąd na ogół 0) – ewentualne uszczegółowienie informacji o dyscyplinie, piąta – stopień zaawansowania przedmiotu ustalony na podstawie roku studiów, dla którego przedmiot jest przeznaczony. / (0222) History and archaeology The ISCED (International Standard Classification of Education) code has been designed by UNESCO.
Course title:	Black market in Poland 1944-1989
Name in Polish:	Czarny rynek w Polsce 1944-1989
Organizational unit:	Institute of History
Course groups:	General university courses General university courses in the humanities
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores):	(not available) Basic information on ECTS credits allocation principles: the annual hourly workload of the student’s work required to achieve the expected learning outcomes for a given stage is 1500-1800h, corresponding to 60 ECTS; the student’s weekly hourly workload is 45 h; 1 ECTS point corresponds to 25-30 hours of student work needed to achieve the assumed learning outcomes; weekly student workload necessary to achieve the assumed learning outcomes allows to obtain 1.5 ECTS; work required to pass the course, which has been assigned 3 ECTS, constitutes 10% of the semester student load. view allocation of credits
Language:	Polish
Type of course:	elective courses general courses
Short description:	The lecture will examine different social and political aspects of the black market in the postwar Poland (1944-1989). During the lectures will be presented both the problems typical for the whole term of the communist Poland (western currencies, gold, meat, moonlight alcohol) and observed only periodically (cars, gasoline). The important aspect of the lecture will be the complicated interactions between society and government and the "geography" of the black market in Poland.
Full description:	1. The introduction-lecture: what properly the social history is? 2. Presentation of the Polish literature about the social history (with the focus on the publications about the "second economy"). 3. "Black market" - the experience of the 20th century. 4. and 5. The short story of the black market in the postwar Poland: institutions, people, objects. 6. Geography of the black market in the communist Poland 7. and 8. The black market of gold and hard currencies in Poland 9. and 10. Smugglers and tourists: the transnational aspects of the black market in communist Poland. 11. and 12. Black market of meat. 13. Black market of alcohol. 14. Black market of cars and gasoline.
Bibliography:	(in Polish) Literatura zostanie podana podczas wykładu.

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