Contemporary History: An Interdisciplinary Perspective II. (Czech and World History, 1968 - 1989) - Seminar

Syllabus

CONSULTATION SEMINARS FOR 2020 SUMMER SEMESTER:

- February 21st - introduction and topic assignment

- March 20th - discussions of selected topics

- April 24th - discussions of selected topics  

ESSAY TOPICS FOR 2020 SUMMER SEMESTER:   1) Détente and superpower relations 1969-1979

CHCW Vol. II - 18 - Détente in the Nixon-Ford years, 1969-1976

CHCW Vol. III: 7 . The collapse of superpower détente, 1975-1980

Daniel C. Thomas: Human Rights Ideas, the Demise of Communism and the End of the Cold War.

Bowker a Williams: Helsinki and West European Security   2) The Polish Question and rise of Solidarity

Maryjane Osa: Solidarity and Contention Networks, kapitola 3, Islands of Opposition

Maryjane Osa: Solidarity and Contention Networks, kapitola 4: Breakthrough to "Solidarity"

Maryjane Osa: Solidarity and Contention Networks, "Conclusion".

Brown: The Rise and Fall of Communism, 21) The Challenge from Poland: John Paul II, Lech Wałesa, and the Rise of Solidarity

Perrone: Pope John Paul II´s role in the Collapse of Poland´s Communist Regime, esp. p. 22-50.   3) Second Cold War: Soviet intervention in Afghanistan and Euromissile crisis

William Maley: The Afghanistan Wars, kapitoly 1 (The Road to War), 2 (Soviet Strategy, Tactics and Dilemmas)

Ploetz: Enemy image and identity in the Warsaw Pact, in: Hartmann a Heuser: War, Peace and World Orders in European History

Heuser: The Soviet Response to the Euromissile crisis

Wettig: Origins of the Second Cold War... emergence and development of the campaign against NATO euromissiles, 1979-1983

CHCW Vol. III: 5. Soviet foreign policy from détente to Gorbachev, 1975-1985   4) The Mikhail Gorbachev phenomena

CHCW Vol. III: 12. The Gorbachev revolution and the end of the Cold War

Brown: The Gorbachev Factor

CHCW Vol. III: 14. Western Europe and the end of the Cold War 1979-1989

CHCW Vol. III: 14. Western Europe and the end of the Cold War, 1979-1989

CHCW Vol. III: 15. The East European revolutions of 1989  

Annotation

A follow-up seminar to the course "Contemporary History in Interdisciplinary Perspective II.".