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Ved bedømmelsen af prøvepræstationen vil der blive lagt vægt på, i hvor høj grad den studerende
- viser kendskab til et selvvalgt emne indenfor det historiske fagområde
- kan opstille og analysere en problemstilling
- kan beskrive og forklare de historiske fænomener, den studerende arbejder med
- kan diskutere de forskningsmæssige problemer, som er knyttet hertil
Eastern Europe under Communist Rule (Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary in Comparison)
After the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe in 1989, all successor regimes have tried to present the four decades of Communist rule as an anomaly and an aberration from the natural historical trajectory of these countries, introduced from abroad and upheld only through the overwhelming military power of the Soviet Union. This seminar will critically examine these common assumptions about Communist rule, analyzing the ascendancy, the consolidation, the crises, and the eventual collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe, with Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary as our primary cases. Although the international context - including the towering presence of the Soviet Union - will not be neglected, the focus will be on the domestic side of Communist rule, politically and socially.
We will investigate what characterized Communism as a doctrine and a method of political rule, and look at its impact on the societies, economies and culture in the countries of Eastern Europe. In comparing Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary we will try to determine the degree to which different national traditions and conditions were able to leave their mark on the Stalinist Soviet model that was introduced as mandatory in the early years of Communist rule. The seminar will study both the most dramatic moments of regime crisis - 1956, 1968, 1980-81, 1989 - and periods of seeming consolidation and stability in order to understand not only why Communism eventually collapsed so rapidly and completely, but also the impact it left and still leaves on the societies that experienced it.
Ingen
Peter Bugge
Undervisningen foregår på hold som en dialog mellem underviseren og de studerende.
Engelsk
Ivan T. Berend: Central and Eastern Europe 1944-1993: Detour from the periphery to the periphery, Cambridge University Press 1996 (and later editions)
Joseph Rothschild & Nancy M. Wingfield: Return to Diversity: A political history of East Central Europe since World War II (fourth edition), Oxford University Press 2008
A reader with further material will be available at the beginning of the course.
