Print syllabusSocial History of Europe
General data
| Course ID: | 4003-111HS2 |
| Erasmus code / ISCED: |
08.3
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| Course title: | Social History of Europe |
| Name in Polish: | Historia społeczna Europy |
| Organizational unit: | Centre for Europe |
| Course groups: |
(in Polish) Europeistyka (CE) - DZIENNE I STOPNIA 1 semestr 1 rok |
| ECTS credit allocation (and other scores): |
(not available)
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| Language: | Polish |
| Type of course: | obligatory courses |
| Mode: | Remote learning |
| Short description: |
The analysis of the most important social and political phenomena taking place in Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries. XIX and XX centuries. The student will learn, understand and gain the ability to critically evaluate the history of Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries. |
| Full description: |
1. The world before World War I. European big powers and their policies, conflict areas, non-European rivalry. Causes of the outbreak of WWI, the rising role of the State. Aftermath of World War I 2. Situation after Order of Versailles. Conference in Versailles- its meaning and resolutions; new map of Europe; post-war role of big powers. Revisionism post-Versailles. Revolution in Russia and its consequences, social and ethnic identity of central-eastern Europe. 3. Post-war challenge for democracy, disappointment about democratic order vs political effects of the war, economic crisis and its political and social consequences 4. Fascism. National socialism, communism. Authoritarian systems, similarities and differences between different non-democratic regimes. Social aspect of totalitarianisms 5. World War II- its causes, line-up of big powers, total war, holocaust and Nazi repressive systems, resistance movement 6. Political final of World War II. Conferences in Yalta and Potsdam, post-Yalta system, the problem of post-war Germany 7. Central-Eastern Europe after WWII. Repression, economic policy 8. Cold War. The emergence of political-military blocks, conflicts and rivalry; role of propaganda 9. De-Stalinization and the year 1956. Transformations in the communist block, Hungarian Revolution, reaction of the West 10. The significance of decolonisation for Western Europe. Dissolution of the British Empire; decolonisation models: the United Kingdom and France. 11. 1960s in the West and in the communist block. The year 1968. Prague War , the weakening role of Moscow in the eastern block. Social and political attitudes 12. Policy of coexistence and conference in Helsinki. The German ‘Ostpolitik’, improving relations between the East and the West, dissident movements 13. Political life in Western Europe in 1970s and 1980s. Integration and resistance against the unification of Europe; Welfare State and standard of living. Media and their role in political life 14. Crisis and the fall of communism. The causes, situation in USSR, ‘Autumn of Nations’ in Central-Eastern Europe; the unification of Germany, conflict in Yugoslavia Student's workload lecture - 30 h preparation to the lecture - 45 h preparation to the examination - 45 h altogether - 120 h |
| Bibliography: |
• Batowski H.: Między dwiema wojnami 1919-1939: zarys historii dyplomatycznej, Kraków, Wyd. Literackie, 1988 • Borejsza W. J. (red): Faszyzmy europejskie 1922-1945 w oczach współczesnych i historyków, Warszawa, Czytelnik 1979 • Bullock A.: Hitler. Studium tyranii, Warszawa, Czytelnik 1969 (1975) • Cziomer E.: Historia Niemiec 1945-1991, Kraków, Wyd. UJ 1992 • Davies N.: Europa - rozprawa historyka z historią, Kraków, Wyd. Znak 1998 • Furet F.: Przeszłość pewnego złudzenia. esej o idei komunistycznej w XX w., Warszawa 1996 • Grunberger R. Historia społeczna III Rzeszy, Warszawa 1987 • Kaelbe H., Społeczna historia Europy, Warszawa 2010. • Kitchen M.: Historia Europy 1919-1939, Wrocław, Ossolineum 1992 • Krasuski J.: Europa Zachodnia. Dzieje polityczne 1945-1993, Warszawa, WSiP 1995 • Laquer W.: Historia Europy 1945-1992, Londyn, Plus 1993 • Palmer A.: Kto był kim w polityce światowej od 1860 r., Warszawa 1997 • Tuchman B. T.: Wyniosła wieża. Świat przed I Wojną Światową 1890 - 1914, Warszawa 1987 • Skrzypek A., Historia społeczna Europy w XIX i XX w., Poznań 2009 • Timothy Garton Ash, Wiosna obywateli, Londynq 1990 • Jan Baszkiewicz, Historia Francji, Wrocław 1999 • Zbigniew Brzeziński, Wielkie bankructwo. Narodziny i śmierć komunizmu w XX wieku, Paryż 1990 • Antoni Czubiński, Europa XX wieku. Zarys historii politycznej, Poznań 1998. • Eric Hobsbawm, Wiek skrajności, Warszawa 1999 • Martin McCauley, Rosja, Ameryka i zimna wojna 1949-1991, Wrocława 2001 • Leksykon historii powszechnej 1900-1945, red. S. Sierpowski, Poznań 1996. • Edward Radziński, Stalin, Warszawa 1996 • Wojciech Roszkowski, Półwiecze. Historia polityczna świata po 1945 roku, Warszawa 2002 • Gordon Smith, Życie polityczne w Europie Zachodniej, Londyn 1992 • Józef Smaga, Narodziny i upadek ZSRR, Kraków 1992 • Jerzy Krasuski, Historia Niemiec, Wrocław 1998 |
| Learning outcomes: |
After completing the course the students will: – know the key events of the history of 20th century Europe and understand the diversity of European countries, – understand the significance of history for European studies, – have the ability to analyse the causes and course of historical processes in Europe, – have the ability to interpret selected events and processes in the history of Europe, – be able to choose the right methods of description and analysis of historical and social problems in Europe, – have the ability to forecast social phenomena and processes, – be prepared to initiate and actively participate in the workings of interdisciplinary teams, – be aware of diversity in Europe determined by the history of the continent. |
| Assessment methods and assessment criteria: |
Oral or written examination |
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