PdF:De2MP_KRSV Communist Regimes in Central E

De2MP_KRSV Communist Regimes in Central Europe during Cold War

Faculty of Education
Spring 2018

Extent and Intensity

1/0/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).

Teacher(s)

Guaranteed by

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is offered to students of any study field.

Course objectives

student will be able to indentify common and specific features of communist regimes in states of Central Europe during the period of 1948-1989

Syllabus

1, the causes of the Cold War, its initial phase and the impact on the situation in the countries of Central Europe; 2, the advent of the communist regime in Poland; 3, the formation of the GDR and the foundation period of the regime; 4, the characteristics of the regime in Hungary in the years 1947-1956; 5 Czechoslovakia after 1948; 6, meaning XX. Congress of the CPSU for the eastern bloc countries; 7, gradual changes in the situation in the 60s attempt at reform; 8 importance of 1968 for countries of the Eastern bloc, called. Brezhnev Doctrine; 9, the so-called. Détente in the '70s, the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (ie. The Helsinki Conference); 10, the movement for human rights in the countries of the Eastern bloc, called the task. Dissent and methods of persecution; 11, the so-called. Perestroika and glasnost (years 1986-1989); 12 fall of regimes in Central and Eastern Europe in 1989-1990;

Literature

recommended literature

Judt, Tony: Poválečná Everopa: historie po roce 1945. Praha 2008, 986s.
Plechanovová, Běla – Fidler, Jiří: Kapitoly z dějin mezinárodních vztahů. 2. díl. 1941-1995. Praha 1997, 240s.
Hobsbawm, Eric: Věk extrémů. Krátké 20. století 1914-1991. Praha 1998, 620s.

Teaching methods

Theoretical analysis of literature, textual analysis of publishing documents

Assessment methods

colloquium

Language of instruction

Czech

The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2017.