Contemporary History: An Interdisciplinary Perspective II. (Czech and World History, 1968 - 1989) - Seminar - YMO114

• Title: Contemporary History: An Interdisciplinary Perspective II. (Czech and World History, 1968 - 1989) - Seminar
• Guaranteed by: Programme Oral History and Contemporary History (24-KOHSD)
• Faculty: Faculty of Humanities
• Actual: from 2022
• Semester: summer
• E-Credits: 2
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/2, C [HS]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: combined
• Teaching methods: combined
• Guarantor: prof. PaedDr. Miroslav Vaněk, Ph.D.; PhDr. Mgr. Petr Wohlmuth, Ph.D.
• Incompatibility : YMO014

Annotation

English

Last update: Mgr. Jana Wohlmuth Markupová, Ph.D. (14.06.2012)

A follow-up seminar to the course "Contemporary History in Interdisciplinary Perspective II.".

Czech

Last update: Mgr. Lenka Halbichová (14.06.2013)

A follow-up seminar to the course "Contemporary History: An Interdisciplinary Perspective II.".

Registration requirements

Last update: Mgr. Jana Wohlmuth Markupová, Ph.D. (02.10.2012)

The course is designed only for students of Oral History - Contemporary History study program in English language.

Syllabus

Last update: PhDr. Mgr. Petr Wohlmuth, Ph.D. (12.02.2020)

CONSULTATION SEMINARS FOR 2020 SUMMER SEMESTER:

- February 21st - introduction and topic assignment

- March 20th - discussions of selected topics

- April 24th - discussions of selected topics

 

ESSAY TOPICS FOR 2020 SUMMER SEMESTER:

 

1) Détente and superpower relations 1969-1979

CHCW Vol. II - 18 - Détente in the Nixon-Ford years, 1969-1976

CHCW Vol. III: 7 . The collapse of superpower détente, 1975-1980

Daniel C. Thomas: Human Rights Ideas, the Demise of Communism and the End of the Cold War.

Bowker a Williams: Helsinki and West European Security

 

2) The Polish Question and rise of Solidarity

Maryjane Osa: Solidarity and Contention Networks, kapitola 3, Islands of Opposition

Maryjane Osa: Solidarity and Contention Networks, kapitola 4: Breakthrough to "Solidarity"

Maryjane Osa: Solidarity and Contention Networks, "Conclusion".

Brown: The Rise and Fall of Communism, 21) The Challenge from Poland: John Paul II, Lech Wałesa, and the Rise of Solidarity

Perrone: Pope John Paul II´s role in the Collapse of Poland´s Communist Regime, esp. p. 22-50.

 

3) Second Cold War: Soviet intervention in Afghanistan and Euromissile crisis

William Maley: The Afghanistan Wars, kapitoly 1 (The Road to War), 2 (Soviet Strategy, Tactics and Dilemmas)

Ploetz: Enemy image and identity in the Warsaw Pact, in: Hartmann a Heuser: War, Peace and World Orders in European History

Heuser: The Soviet Response to the Euromissile crisis

Wettig: Origins of the Second Cold War... emergence and development of the campaign against NATO euromissiles, 1979-1983

CHCW Vol. III: 5. Soviet foreign policy from détente to Gorbachev, 1975-1985

 

4) The Mikhail Gorbachev phenomena

CHCW Vol. III: 12. The Gorbachev revolution and the end of the Cold War

Brown: The Gorbachev Factor

CHCW Vol. III: 14. Western Europe and the end of the Cold War 1979-1989

CHCW Vol. III: 14. Western Europe and the end of the Cold War, 1979-1989

CHCW Vol. III: 15. The East European revolutions of 1989