UC EAP- | Prof. Tibor FRANK |
| Eötvös Loránd University | Office: 1088 Budapest , Rákóczi út 5. #357 |
| Fall 2007 | Hours: After classes |
| 1117 Budapest | Tel: 06 30 34 37 4 39 |
| Pázmány Péter sétány, Bldg A | E-mail: tf2014@columbia.edu |
| Tu-Th 5:30-7:00 p.m. | www.franktibor.hu |
This course presents "Eastern" Europe in terms of the history, and the successor states, of three 19th century empires: the Habsburg, the Czarist Russian, and the Ottoman. The course focuses on the making of modern Austria, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, as well as Croatia, Serbia-Montenegro, and Bosnia-Herzegovina, and their way towards a United Europe. The empires were a long-term feature on the political map of Europe. Why were the empires transformed into "nation states?" How did the Paris Peace Treaties contribute to instability in "Eastern" Europe, particularly before and after World War II? What is the lasting legacy of the empires? How do the former imperial regions fare in today's drastically changing international environment? Set against the unification of political Europe, the course reassesses the complexities of contemporary East-Central Europe.
August 28 |
Orientation (1:00-2:00 p.m.) |
September 4 6
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Introduction The Making of the Habsburg Empire: Dynasty, Authority, Power The origins of the Habsburg Monarchy -- The Ottoman Attack: Europe and the Islam
The French Rivalry and the Balance of European Power
The rise of modern power politics--Habsburg-French contorversy--The Rákóczi War of Independence The Rise of Nationalism in Eastern Europe Languages and literatures--National histories-- Liberty , Equality, Fraternity in Eastern Europe --The French influence The Revolutions of 1848-49 Paris , Vienna , Milan , Buda and Pozsony--The Government of Batthyány ---Lajos Kossuth--Hungarian independence-The Frankfurt Parliament--Habsburg reaction--Inviting the Romanovs--Towards reconciliation: The Ausgleich (Compromise) Poland under Russia , Austria , and Prussia The partitions of Poland --Regional differences--Austrian Galicia--The Jewish question--Poles in exile Ottoman Withdrawal and Rising Nations in the Balkans The nationalities in the Balkans-- Serbia -- Croatia --Bosnia-Herzegovina-- The emergence of a Southern Slav consciousness |
October 2
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The [Re]emergence of National Identities Literature, Music, and the Arts--Romanticism--History and Ethnography--Erkel and Liszt-- Frantiąek Palacký--Vuk Karadľić--Nations in the Revolutions of 1848-49 Austria-Hungary after the German unification--Count Gyula Andrássy--The Congress of Berlin, 1878--The Austro-Hungarian/German Treaty of 1879 Sarajevo : The Making of World War I Franz Ferdinand and Annexation of Bosnia-Herzegovina-- Hungary 's Count István Tisza--The War Aims "Eastern" Europe in the 'Great War' Austria-Hungary and the Making of World War I--A Global War- Central Powers vs. Entente Mid-Term Summary: Questions and Answers [Academic Holiday] The Paris Peace Treaties Woodrow Wilson's 14 Points - Versailles , Trianon, St. Germain, Neully, Sevres - Keynes and the Critics of the System - President Wilson and U.S. Ratification |
November 1
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'The Lands Between:' The New Map of East-Central Europe New Nation-States and the Rise of New Authoritarianism: The dissolution of the Habsburg Monarchy--The successor states--The new borders --Propaganda war: 'No, no, never'--The foreign policy of Austria and Hungary --The German connection A New-Old Nation-State: The Recreation of Poland
Piłsudski, Paderewski and the new Poland --The Polish-Russian War--The German threat Multiculturalism I: Establishing Czechoslovakia Tomáą Masaryk and the Czechoslovak state--The Czech economy: ©koda, Bata--Building a democratic system--Multiculturalism --Relations to the great powers Multiculturalism II: Constructing Yugoslavia The Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes--King Alexander: Royal Dictatorship--Marseille 1934--Hitler's Attack-- Hungary 's role: Count Pál Teleki--Josip Broz Tito The Failure of the Paris Peace Treaties I: World War II and East-Central Europe Johnson, pp. 197-222; Bogdan, pp. 255-257, 261-271; Sugar et al., eds., 346-355. The rise of Nazi Germany--Hitler's Conquests--The Munich Agreement --Czechoslovakia, Austria, Poland--The Western Front --Attacking the Soviet Union--Teheran, Yalta, Potsdam--The Second Front The Failure of the Paris Peace Treaties II: From Potsdam to Foulton--The Iron Curtain--The Soviet System in Eastern Europe
-- Stalinism--Anti-Soviet Movements--Thought Control, Secret Police, Planned Economy Resistance to Soviet Domination: Revolutions in Eastern Europe--The role of the U.S.--The Government of Imre Nagy --Prague Spring and Aleksander Dubcek--Solidarity in Poland and Lech Walesa The Dissolution of the Soviet Empire The approaching crisis--Mikhail Gorbachev--Changing patterns of international defense--The Berlin Wall-- Hungary 's role in the German question |
December 4
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Reestablishing a parliamentary democracy: the multi-party system, responsible government, freedom of speech-- The media--The free market to replace planned economy-- The emergence of national spirit--Nationalisms in Eastern Europe--The dissolution of the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia , and Czechoslovakia Towards a United Europe The European Union: from the Treaty of Rome to the Schengen Agreement--The Council of Europe-- Luxembourg , Strassbourg, Brussels -Ten new member states: A new union?-The European Constitution in balance Final Examination A controversial lieu de mémoire : Visiting the House of Terror |
Note: Both the mid-term and the final will consist of an essay of 60 minutes, a series of important terms, names, and dates to be identified, and some significant places to be located on a blank map of Europe.
Selected chapters from the following books:
Bogdan, Henry. From Warsaw to Sofia . A History of Eastern Europe
Santa Fe , New Mexico : Pro Libertate, 1989.
Brown, J. F. Eastern Europe and Communist Rule.
Durham and London : Duke University Pres, 1988.
Goldman, Minton F. Revolution and Change in Central and Eastern
Europe : Political, Economic, and Social Challenges.
Armonk , N.Y. - London , England : M. E. Sharpe, 1997.
Johnson, Lonnie R. Central Europe: Enemies, Neighbors, Friends .
2 nd ed. New York-Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Okey, Robin. Eastern Europe 1740-1985. Feudalism to Communism.
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2nd ed.,
4 th printing, 1999.
Rothschild, Joseph. East Central Europe Between the Two World Wars.
Seattle and London : University of Washington Press , 1974; 8th printing 1998.
Rothschild, Joseph. Return to Diversity.
A Political History of East Central Europe since World War II.
3rd ed. Oxford University Press, 2000.
Simons, Jr., Thomas W. Eastern Europe in the Postwar World.
2 nd ed., New York : St. Martin 's Press, 1993.