University of California	Prof. Tibor FRANK
Education Abroad Program	Office: Ajtósi Dürer sor, #201
Fall 2004	Hours: Th 2:30-3:30 p.m.
ELTE, Ajtósi Dürer sor 19-21	Tel: office 460-4416,
Building "A", #207	home: 200-8867
Tu-Th 4:00-5:30 p.m.	E-mail: tzsbe@hu.inter.net

Hungary in Central Europe:

A Regional Approach

Course Syllabus

Description of Course

This course presents one of Europe's unique and most productive cultures in her Central-European setting. An outpost of Western civilization throughout much of her history, Hungary enjoyed national independence through a long period of late medieval and renaissance excellence, later to become part of subsequent multinational empires, from Ottoman through Habsburg to Soviet. A series of revolutions, two World Wars, massive emigration, predominantly to the United States, and dramatic territorial, political, and social changes in the 19th and 20th centuries finally resulted in the establishment of an independent system well on its way to become a democracy and looked upon as an experimental model for 'Eastern' Europe. Designed for American students interested in a long-term, regional approach to East-Central Europe and to second and third generation Hungarian-Americans willing to assess the Hungarian contribution to 20th century US culture and civilization, almost unparalleled in science, film, music, and medicine, and in search of their own ethnic, social or religious identity.

Schedule of Lectures

August	Orientation
September	Introduction: Hungary and the Hungarians Sugar et al., eds., pp. 1-14 Hungary in Medieval Europe: King István's Christian Kingdom Sugar et al., eds., pp. 15-33 From the Arpáds to the Angevins: Late-Medieval Society and Culture Sugar et al., eds., pp. 34-53 Mátyás Hunyadi and Renaissance Hungary Sugar et al., eds., pp. 54-82 Hungary in the Ottoman Empire Sugar et al., eds., pp. 83-120 The Habsburg Empire and Hungarian Struggles for National Independence Sugar et al., eds., pp. 121-173 Culture and Society in 18th Century East-Central Europe Kosáry pp. 7-54 Struggle for Reform: Pre-March Hungary in Metternich's Empire Sugar et al., eds., pp. 174-208
October	Hungary and the European Revolutions of 1848 Sugar et al., eds., pp. 209-234 The Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, 1867-1918 Sugar et al., eds., pp. 252-266 Hungarian and Central European Emigration to the US, 1880-1914 Puskás, pp. 15-115 Ferment and Decay: Culture and Society in Pre-World War I Hungary Lukacs, pp.137-208 Hungary and Central Europe in World War I: Revolution and Counterrevolution in 1918-1919 Sugar et al., eds., pp. 267-318 The Paris Peace Conference and the Peace Treaty of Trianon Bogdan, pp. 174-185 [Academic Holiday]
November	Hungary in Interwar Europe: The Horthy Era, 1920-1944 Sugar et al., eds., pp. 319-338, 356-367 Mid-Term Exam Toward World War II: Revisionism and Hungarian Foreign Policy Sugar et al., eds., pp. 339-346 Hungary in World War II Sugar et al., eds., 346-355 Teheran, Yalta, Potsdam: The Post-War Settlement Bogdan, pp. 255-257, 261-271 Hungary Behind the Iron Curtain: The Revolution of 1956 Sugar et al., eds., pp. 368-383 Gati, pp. 127-155 János Kádár and the Politics of Consolidation Gati, pp. 156-176 Economic and Social Change in Post-War East-Central Europe Brown, pp. 113-157, 384-414 The Dissolution of the Soviet Empire Bogdan, pp. 343-398 *Book-Review Due in Class Today
December	Culture and Values in 20th Century Hungary Nation, National Minorities, and Nationalism in East-Central Europe Central Europe Toward Democracy? ***Final Examination Hungary and the Making of the European Union

Course Requirements and Grading

Regular participation in, and preparation for, classes (10% of final grade)
In-class mid-term examination (35% of final grade)
Book-review (Details on separate sheet to follow, 20% of final grade)
In-class final examination (35% of final grade)

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.

Reading for Course

Selected chapters from the following books:

Henry Bogdan, From Warsaw to Sofia. A History of Eastern Europe
(Santa Fe, NM: Pro Libertate, 1989)

J. F. Brown, Eastern Europe and Communist Rule
(Durham--London: Duke University Press, 1988)

Charles Gati, Hungary and the Soviet Bloc
(Durham: Duke University Press, 1986)

Minton F. Goldman, Revolution and Change in Central and Eastern Europe: Political, Economic, and Social Challenges
(Armonk, NY--London, England: M. E. Sharpe, 1997)

Domokos Kosáry, Culture and Society in Eighteenth Century Hungary
(Budapest: Corvina, 1987)

John Lukacs, Budapest 1900. A Historical Portrait of a City and Its Culture
(New York: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1988)

Julianna Puskás, From Hungary to the United States, 1880-1914
(Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1982)

Peter F. Sugar, Péter Hanák and Tibor Frank, eds., A History of Hungary
(Bloomington--Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1990)

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