History 365 - Tpc: Other Europe Since Stalin

Spring
2014
01
4.00
Jeremy King
W 01:15PM-04:05PM
Mount Holyoke College
86883
Williston Memorial Library 618
jking@mtholyoke.edu
'A charting of the paths taken by Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary from the post-totalitarian regimes of the '60s through the fall of the Berlin Wall and on to membership in the European Union. Topics include strategies of political control and opposition, the uses of consumer culture, breaks and continuities between Communist and liberal capitalist orders, and national particularities to the regional project of undoing dictatorship. Sources reach from the elite to the everyday, and extend to film and fiction. Methods are comparative and interdisciplinary. Students not majoring in history are welcome.'
Prereq: 8 credits of History
Permission is required for interchange registration during the add/drop period only.