History 338 - Eastern Europe in the 20th Century
T. Weeks (tadeusz@siu.edu)
Summer 2000
Week 1.
12th. Introductions.
13th. Eastern Europe before WWI: Politics, Economy, Nationality
14th. WWI: From Sarajevo to Versailles.
15th. Eastern Europe in 1920. Mapquiz.
16th. Film: "Hungarian Rhapsody"
Week 2.
19th. Interwar Poland: Pisudski vs. Dmowski
20th. Interwar Hungary: Kingdom without a King. Minipaper # 1
21st. Interwar Balkans
22nd. World War II and Holocaust
23rd. Film: "Europa, Europa"
Week 3.
26th. MIDTERM EXAM
27th. Late 1940s and Sovietization
28th. Stalinism in Eastern Europe
29th. 1956 and De-Stalinization
30th. Film: "While Father Was Away on Business"
Week 4.
July 3rd. End of Ideology: 1960s and 1970s
July 5th. 1980s: From Solidarity to Collapse of Communism. Minipaper # 2
July 6th. 1990s: Building Democracy and Capitalism in Eastern Europe
July 7th. Final Examination.
Grading:
Mapquiz: 10%
Midterm: 20%
2 minipapers: 20%
Final: 25%
Attendance and participation: 25%
{Break-up of attendance/participation grade:
10% - "being there"; 10% - answer questions for that day's readings (5x);
5% - leading discussion (and making questions) once.}
READINGS.
Readings must be done before class meeting as they will be discussed on that date. Failure to prepare reading assignments will result in a lowered participation grade. At least once a week you will turn in written answers (short - not more than one side of one sheet) to one day's discussion questions. You will also participate as discussion leader once in the course - for this, you and the other students who "take" that day will come up with discussion questions (no more than one side of one page) for the day's readings. These questions must be ready one day in advance to enable people to prepare for the following day's discussion.
Week 1.
12th. No readings.
13th. Gales Stokes, "Eastern Europe's Defining Fault Lines" [from Three Eras of Political Change in Eastern Europe, pp. 7-22]; Robin Okey, "Politics, 1870-1918" [from Eastern Europe 1740-1985, pp. 110-132]
14th. WWI. Jaroslav Hašek. The Good Soldier Švejk: "Švejk intervenes in the Great War," and "In Budapest" (to p. 533)
15th. Lonnie R. Johnson, "World War I and National Self-Determination 1914-1922" [from Central Europe: Enemies, Neighbors, Friends, pp. 171-196]; Joseph Roth, "The Bust of the Emperor" [from Hotel Savoy..., pp. 155-183]
16th. [film]
Week 2.
19th. Norman Davies, Heart of Europe, pp. 115-129; Czesaw Miosz, "City of My Youth" (from Native Realm); Aleksander Wat, My Century, pp. 47-51.
20th. Mária Ormos, "The Early Interwar Years, 1921-1938" [from Peter Sugar et al., A History of Hungary, pp. 319-338]; Illyés, People of the Puszta, pp. 7-19, 107-121.
21st. R.J. Crampton, Eastern Europe in the 20th Century - and after, pp. 107-143; Ivo Andri, "Bar Titanic." (In The Pasha's Concubine, pp. 251-289).
22nd. Return to Diversity to page 73; Czesaw Miosz, "A Poor Christian Looks at the Ghetto," "Campo dei Fiori"; Tadeusz Borowski, "This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen"; "Kol Nidre in Auschwitz"and "The Transport from Auschwitz" (from From a Ruined Garden: The Memorial Books of Polish Jewry, pp. 231-239).
23rd. Film: "Europa, Europa"; Jan Boski, "The Poor Poles Look at the Ghetto" (From Four Decades of Polish Essays, ed. by Jan Kott, pp. 222-235).
Week 3.
26th. MIDTERM EXAM
27th. Return to Diversity, pp. 75-123 ("The Communists come to Power").
28th. Return to Diversity, pp. 125-146; Jakub Berman, "The Case for Stalinism" and Czesaw Miosz, "Ketman" from G. Stokes, ed., From Stalinism to Pluralism ..., pp. 44-56.
29th. Return to Diversity, pp. 147-190 ("Revenge of the Repressed"); Anthony Rhodes, "Hungary 1956" and "Soviet 30 October Declaration" [in Lyman Legters, Eastern Europe ..., pp. 158-167].
30th. Film: "While Father Was Away on Business"
Week 4.
July 3rd. Return to Diversity, pp. 191-226 ("A Precarious Stalemate"); Slawomir Mroek, "The Elephant," "A Silent Hero," "Children" (from The Elephant, pp. 16-28).
July 5th. Return to Diversity, pp. 227-263 ("The Various Endgames"); Václav Havel, "The Power of the Powerless" (from Stokes, From Stalinism to Pluralism..., pp. 168-174); Adam Michnik, "Why You are not Signing," "A Time of Hope," "Hope and Danger," from Letters from Prison, pp. 3-15, 103-116.
July 6th. Return to Diversity, pp. 265-302; Slavenka Drakuli, "Make-Up and Other Crucial Questions," "The Day When They Say the War Will Begin," and "How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed" from How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed, pp. 21-32, 169-189.
July 7th. Final Examination.