World Contemporary History (1968–1989) - YMO311

• Title: World Contemporary History (1968–1989)
• Guaranteed by: Programme Oral History and Contemporary History (24-KOHSD)
• Faculty: Faculty of Humanities
• Actual: from 2023 to 2023
• Semester: summer
• E-Credits: 5
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:3/2, Ex [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.

Annotation

English

Last update: Mgr. Monika Baláž Picková (07.09.2022)

The subject, in a semi-seminar format, deals with the interpretation of world history in the years 1968-1989, while the main axis of the interpretation is based on the phenomenon of the Cold War as a global historical-social development process and conceptual approach from the field of cultural history. Teaching focuses mainly on historical problems of dynamics of détente, human rights, the specific case of the Polish opposition movement, the second cold war and the Euromissile crisis and the following process of perestroika and the collapse of the Soviet bloc.

Czech

Last update: Mgr. Jana Wohlmuth Markupová, Ph.D. (13.02.2019)

Předmět se poloseminární formou zabývá výkladem světových dějin v letech 1968-1989, přičemž hlavní osa interpretace se opírá o fenomén Studené války jako globálního historicko-sociálního vývojového procesu a konceptualistický přístup z oblasti kulturních dějin. Výuka se soustředí zejména na historické problémy dynamiky détente, lidských práv, specifického případu polského opozičního hnutí, druhé studené války a krize euroraket a následně procesu perestrojky a rozpadu sovětského bloku.

Literature

Last update: PhDr. Mgr. Petr Wohlmuth, Ph.D. (26.08.2023)

Obligatory:

• Leffler, Melvyn P., Westad, Odd Arne (eds.). The Cambridge history of Cold War. Volume I, Origins. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011, 643 s. ISBN 978-1-107-60229-8.
• Leffler, Melvyn P., Westad, Odd Arne (eds.). The Cambridge history of the Cold War. Volume II, Crises and détente. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011, 662 s. ISBN 978-1-107-60230-4.
• Leffler, Melvyn P., Westad, Odd Arne (eds.). The Cambridge history of the Cold War. Volume III, Endings. Cambridge: University Press, 2011, 964 s. ISBN 978-0-521-83721-7.
• Maryjane Osa. Solidarity and Contention: Networks of Polish Opposition. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003, s. ISBN 978-0816638741.
• Brown, Archie. The rise and fall of communism. London: Vintage, 2010, 720 s. ISBN 978-1-845-95067-5.
• Maley, William. The afghanistan wars. London, England: Red Globe Press, 2021, 1 s. ISBN 1-350-30767-X.

Recommended:

• Cezar M. Ornatowski. Rhetoric of Pope John Paul II's Visits to Poland, 1979–1999. In Joseph R. Blaney, Joseph P. Zompetti. The Rhetoric of Pope John Paul II . Plymouth: Lexington Books, 2009, s. 103-150. ISBN 9780739121344..
• Michael Ploetz. Enemy Image and Identity in the Warsaw Pact. In Anja V. Hartmann, Beatrice Hauser. War, Peace and World Orders in European History . London a New York: Routledge, 2001, s. -. ISBN 9780203471692..
• Beatrice Heuser. The Soviet Response to the euromissiles crisis. In Leopoldo Nuti. The Crisis of Détente in Europe . London: Routledge, 2008, s. -. ISBN 9780203887165..
• Gerhard Wettig. The last Soviet offensive in the Cold War: emergence and development of the campaign against NATO euromissiles, 1979–1983. In Cold War History. 1 (2009): 79-110.
• Archie Brown. The Gorbachev Factor. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997, s. ISBN 9780192880529.

Syllabus

Last update: Mgr. Monika Baláž Picková (05.09.2023)

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

Cezar M. Ornatowski, "Rhetoric of Pope John Paul II's Visits to Poland, 1979–1999," In Joseph R. Blaney, Joseph P. Zompetti, ed.,
The Rhetoric of Pope John Paul II (Lexington Books: Plymouth, 2009): 103-150. 

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

World War II Historical Reenactment in Poland: The Practice of Authent (routledge.com)

Course completion requirements

Last update: PhDr. Mgr. Petr Wohlmuth, Ph.D. (09.03.2022)

- semestral written essay, covering one of the topics (min. 15 standard pages)

- participation in all semestral consultation seminars

Learning resources

Last update: Mgr. Monika Baláž Picková (27.08.2023)

Study materials for the course can be found on Moodle UK. All informations are written on the OHSD website.