JMMZ111 - Modern Central European History Compared

PLEASE NOTE: This course is only for the English speaking master's programme Central European Comparative Studies (CECS).

Course Structure

The course is made up by double lessons, each of which is divided into a lecture and a seminar.

1. Introduction to the course

2. What is Central Europe? Definition, geography, identity

3. La Belle Époque: Central Europe at the beginning of the 20th century

4. Nation, War and Revolution: Downfall and reconstitution of Central Europe, 1914–1918

5. Democracy, autocracy and minorities in interwar Central Europe, 1918–1939

6. Occupation, resistance and collaboration in Central Europe, 1938–1945

7. Forced migrations, transitional justice and the “Iron Curtain”, 1945–1950

8. Central European Stalinism(s), 1950–1956

9. On different paths towards 1968

10. The limits of growth: consumer society in Central Europe in the 1970s and 1980s

11. Annus mirabilis 1989: Why so easy?

12. Neoliberal Central Europe, 1989–2008