Democratization of
Eastern Europe

climbingthroughthewall
Dr. Brunell


Syllabus

Intro Lecture:  Geography of Post-Communist Europe

East Europe as a Unit of Study and Caught Between Empires

Nationalism

Nations and States

Peasant Life

Czarism/Early Western Impressions of Russia

Marxism

The Russian Revolution

Lenin

The Interwar Years and WWII

Stalin

The Captive Mind

Man of Marble

Critique of Real Existing Socialism

Failed Revolutions in Hungary and Czechoslovakia

Critical Intellectuals

Behind the Curtain Lecture

The Gang of Four

The New Evolutionism and Living as If

Witness to Hope: :  John Paul II

Solidarity

A Carnival of Revolution

Gorby

The Glorious Revolutions of 1989

Timeline 1988-89

Notes on Roskin, Chpts. 6-10

Post-Communist Political Reform

Post-Communist Economic Reform

Post-Communist Governments:
    Poland
    Baby bonuses
    Polish Troops in Iraq

    Hungary
    Hungary's PM
    On EU Membership
    Citizenship for Hungarians in Romania

    Russia
    Russia's Economic Transition
    Russia's Antirevolutionary Revolution
    Putin
   
First Steps: AA in Russia

Institutional Capital

Geographic Diffusion and Post-Communist Change

Notes on Kopstein and Reilly

Building Post-Communist Civil Societies

Midterm Review Sheet

Old Europe, New Europe, Core Europe
    The Bases of European Identity
    The EU:  Federation or Empire?
    Core Europe

Romania

Introduction to the Balkans

History and Disintegration of Yugoslavia

Map of Ethnic Groups in the Former Yugoslavia

Where Worlds Collide:  The Caucasus

Caucasus Map

Accidental Statehood:  The Stans

Islam in the Central Asian Republics

Power Point Presentations:     

Power Point Presentations from Previous Classes:
    Central Eastern Europe

    The Baltics
    Georgia
    The Caucasus
    Central Asian Republic Fact Sheet
 

Gender and Post-Communist Transition
    Gal and Kligman Chpt. 1
    Gal and Kligman Chpt. 2
    Gal and Kligman Chpt. 3
    Gal and Kligman Chpt. 4

Final Exam Review Sheet