History 365ST - The Other Europe Since Stalin

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.