A Social and Cultural History of Communist Europe Told Through Communist Humor

Syllabus

https://cetacademicprograms.com/college-study-abroad/programs/czech-republic/cet-prague/

Required reading materials (the Reader) will be sent to the enrolled students via e-mail as a pdf file.

One copy of the reader will also be available in the CET Library.

Annotation

This is one of the courses of the CET Academic Programs (Central European Studies and Jewish Studies); the comprehensive information is available at: http://fhs.cuni.cz/FHSENG-350.html#8.

This course will apprehend the political, social, economic and cultural history of communist Central and Eastern

Europe from 1945 to 1989 as described in popular jokes.