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History

Author: Christian Domnitz, in cooperation with Philipp Ther
Instructor: Georgiy Kasianov

Credits: 6

• To observe and to discuss major problems of the East European History

• To develop generic skills in application of the history knowledge to the analysis of current politics and policies

   

• Introduction to East European History

• History: Art of Analysing the Past for Understanding the Present

• Backwardness, Modernisation, Nationalism

• Major periods in 20^th Century East European History

• Democracy, Communism, Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe

• Passage to the Post-Communism and Transformation Problems

• Legacies of the Past and Problems of the Present

   

Students are expected to take part in on-line discussions on above-mentioned topics, to comment on proposed compulsory literature and to write two brief essays and one final paper.