Course meets TTh, 12:35 - 1:50 pm. Pulliam 310.

Required Texts:

Norman Davies. God's Playground: A History of Poland. VOLUME 2.

Jerzy Kosinski. The Painted Bird. Czeslaw Milosz. The Captive Mind.

Adam Michnik. Letters from Prison. Reader available at 710 Bookstore.

{Date given is first meeting of the week, that is, Tuesday.}

Week 1 (August 25)

1. Introduction and Course Requirements.

2. Beginnings of Polish History

Week 2 (September 1) Readings: Davies, Chapter 1.

1: Poland on Top of the World: the Polish-Lithuanian Rzeczpospolita.

2: Main Topics in Polish History, from Partitions to the Present.

Week 3 (September 8) Readings: Davies, Chapters 2, 3, 4.

1. Why the Partitions?

2. Napoleon: Savior of the Poles? Paper Topics Due!

Week 4 (September 15) Readings: Mickiewicz in Reader; Chapters 12, 14, 15.

1. Mickiewicz, Polish messianism, and Patriotism without a State

2. The Austrian Partition Book Reviews Due!

Week 5 (September 22) Readings: Davies, Chapter13.

1. The Prussian Partition

Week 6 (September 29) Readings: Davies, Chapters 16, 17, Michnik: "1863: Poland in Russian Eyes", "The Dispute Over Organic Work"; Pilsudski (in reader).

1. Russians and Poles: Opposing Traditions; Discusion: Culture & Politics, mid-18th to mid-19th century

2. Uprisings of 1830 & 1863 Bibliography and Thesis Statement Due!

Week 7 (October 6) Readings: Davies, Chapters 5-11.

1. Russian Poland after 1863

2. "Common Poles" - Economy and Daily Life in the 19th Century [discussion]

Week 8 (October 13) Readings: Davies, Chapter 18.

1. Polish Traditions: Church, Jews, Patriotism [discussion from Davies]

2. Midterm Examination

Week 9 (October 20) Readings: Davies, Chapters 19, 21; Michnik: "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors", "Conversation in the Citadel"; Dmowski (in reader).

1. World War I and Resurrection

2. Interwar Poland: Politics, Economics

Week 10 (October 27) Readings: Davies, Chapter 20 [review Chapter 9], Smolar: "Jews as Polish Problem," Milosz poems [in reader].

1. Interwar Poland: Nationality and Antisemitism; World War Two and Shoah Progress Report on Term Paper Due.

Week 11 (November 3) Readings: Davies, Chapter 22, Kosinski, Painted Bird.

1. Discussion of Kosinski, Shoah and role of Poland

2. Post-1945 Poland: The Communists Assume Power

Week 12 (November 10) Readings: Davies, Chapter 22; Milosz, The Captive Mind.

1. 1945 as Zero Hour: Andrzejewski, "Ashes and Diamonds"

2. Finish "Ashes and Diamonds"

Week 13 (November 17) Readings: Davies, Chapter 23.

1. Building Socialism: the 1950s; discussion of Milosz and Andrzejewski.

[November 23-27 -- Thanksgiving Break]

Week 14 (December 1) Readings: Michnik, pp. 103-154, 3-15, 25-40, 64-75.

1. Toothless Totalitarianism: Poland 1960s to 1980s

2. Solidarity

Week 15 (December 8)

1. Poland since 1989

2. Review Term Paper Due!!!!

Final Examination: Friday, 18 December 10:10 am to 12:10 pm in Pulliam 310

Grading:	Attendance and Participation 15%	Book Review 15%	Midterm Exam 20%
	Term Paper 25%	Final Exam 25%

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