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The course explains basic schemes of development of modern nations and their identities including minority issue in East-Central and South-Eastern Europe with respect to its territorial context and with the use of data collected in censuses since the end of the 19th century to the end of the 20th century.
Moodle link: https://dl2.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=5295

Poslední úprava: Vykoukal Jiří, doc. PhDr., CSc. (07.02.2025)

The main aim of the course is to provide students with basic knowledge of the nation-forming processes in East-Central and South-Eastern Europe since the end of the 19th century to the end of the 20th century, to give them insights into particular nation´s development and to learn them to understand the national question with respect to its varying political, statistical, and territorial context.

Poslední úprava: Vykoukal Jiří, doc. PhDr., CSc. (20.09.2024)

Course completion requirements reflects Dean´s provisions 17/2023 (https://fsv.cuni.cz/en/staff/inner-guidelines-and-documents/deans-provisions) using assessment A-F (A = 91 and more; B = 81-90; C = 71-80; D = 61-70; E = 50,5-60; F = 0-50,4).

1. Assessment of the course:
a) Presentation (20 points), 20 minutes max. Presentation should be selected from the list of topics in SIS and uploaded to Moodle always Sunday before the class. Instead of presentation a short paper can be submitted (1 000 words), Topics to be decided and approved by 12 November 2024, paper to be submitted by 18 January 2025 and uploaded to Moodle, topic of the paper must be different than the topic of a regular paper.

2. Paper (40 points) = 3 000 words (footnotes + list of sources). Topics to be decided and approved by 12 November 2024, paper to be submitted by 18 January 2025 and uploaded to Moodle, topic of the paper must be different than the topic of presentation.

3. Test (40 points) - there will be three exam terms via Moodle ( 15 January, 22 January, 29 January), students have right to take three terms (one regular term and two retakes). Students failing to register for exam in the regular period will miss one term. Test combines statistics, geography/maps, history and data related to national groups and minorities. It is based on obligatory reading and presentations provided by the lecturer.

4. Each part of the exam is assessed separately, none of the part (presentation/short paper, paper, test) should not have less than 50 % of given points.

5. Avoid (auto)plagiarism (https://fsv.cuni.cz/deans-provision-no-18/2015)!

Poslední úprava: Vykoukal Jiří, doc. PhDr., CSc. (06.01.2025)

Obligatory reading:

Eberhardt Piotr_Ethnic Groups and Population Changes in Twentieth-Century Central-Eastern Europe. Armonk-London 2003 (also Polish vision available: P.Eberhardt, Między Rosją i Niemcami. Warszawa 1995
Magocsi, Paul R., Historical atlas of Central Europe. Seattle 2002

Recommended reading

Kaiser, R.J., The geography of nationalism in Russia and the USSR. Princeton 1994
National, regional and minority languages in Europe. Frankfurt am Main : Peter Lang, 2011.
Minority issues in Europe : rights, concepts, policy. Ed. Tove H. Malloy. Berlin 2013
The Oxford handbook of the history of nationalism, ed. John Breuilly, Oxford 2013

Articles - employ JSTOR, Sage, Taylor&Francis, ebrary and other sources at: https://knihovna.fsv.cuni.cz/en

Poslední úprava: Vykoukal Jiří, doc. PhDr., CSc. (20.09.2024)

Lecture, seminar, presentations.

Office hours: Tuesday 14-15.20 (Jinonice, B334).

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Poslední úprava: Vykoukal Jiří, doc. PhDr., CSc. (07.02.2025)

1. Introduction (02 October)

2. Baltic area (09 October)
Required reading: Eberhardt Piotr_Ethnic Groups and Population Changes in Twentieth-Century Central-Eastern Europe. Armonk-London 2003, pp. 19-72.
Presentation topics:
a) Comparative Russian Minorities in Estonia and Latvia
b) Polish minority in Lithuania
c) National autonomy in the Baltics between 1918-1940

3. Belarus (16 October)
Required reading: Eberhardt Piotr_Ethnic Groups and Population Changes in Twentieth-Century Central-Eastern Europe. Armonk-London 2003, pp. 176-180, 197-204, 225-237
Presentation:
a) Polish minority in Belarus
b) Language issue in Belarus
c) National identity in Belarus

4. Ukraine (23 October)
Required reading: Eberhardt Piotr_Ethnic Groups and Population Changes in Twentieth-Century Central-Eastern Europe. Armonk-London 2003, pp. 175-264.
Presentation:
a) Language issue in Ukraine
b) Regional factor and national identity
c) Minorities in Ukraine

5. Poland (30 October)
Required reading: Eberhardt Piotr_Ethnic Groups and Population Changes in Twentieth-Century Central-Eastern Europe. Armonk-London 2003, pp. 74-97, 112-126, 137-146.
Presentation:
a) German minority in Poland
b) Past and present of Jews in Poland
c) Ukrainians in Poland

6. Czecho-Slovakia (06 November)
Required reading: Eberhardt Piotr_Ethnic Groups and Population Changes in Twentieth-Century Central-Eastern Europe. Armonk-London 2003, pp. 98-107, 127-133, 147-159.
Presentation:
a) German minority in Czech Republic
b) Polish minority in Teschen Silesia
c) Hungarian minority in Slovakia

7. Hungary (13 November)
Required reading: Eberhardt Piotr_Ethnic Groups and Population Changes in Twentieth-Century Central-Eastern Europe. Armonk-London 2003, pp. 266-275, 289-294, 310-314.
Presentation:
a) Roma issue
b) Hungarian diaspora abroad
c) Hungary and refugees

8. Romania & Moldova (20 November)
Required reading: Eberhardt Piotr_Ethnic Groups and Population Changes in Twentieth-Century Central-Eastern Europe. Armonk-London 2003, pp. 276-282, 295-305, 315-323.
Presentation:
a) Moldovan identity of Transnistria
b) Hungarian minority and Szeklers in Transylvania
c) Romanian German heritage

9. Bulgaria (27 November)
Required reading: Eberhardt Piotr_Ethnic Groups and Population Changes in Twentieth-Century Central-Eastern Europe. Armonk-London 2003, pp. 353-356, 368-370, 414-420.
Presentation:
a) Turkish minority after 1990
b) Pomaks
c) Greek heritage

10. Yugoslavias 1918-1992/2003 (04 December)
Required reading: Eberhardt Piotr_Ethnic Groups and Population Changes in Twentieth-Century Central-Eastern Europe. Armonk-London 2003, pp. 339-352, 362-367, 377-413.
Presentation:
a) Illyrism and Yugoslavism
b) Italian issue in Dalmatia after 1918
c) 1918-1990: unitarian state and federation compared

11. Yugoslav republics and post-Yugoslav states (11 December)
Required reading: Eberhardt Piotr_Ethnic Groups and Population Changes in Twentieth-Century Central-Eastern Europe. Armonk-London 2003, pp. 339-352, 362-367, 377-413.
a) National identity of Montenegrins after the fall of Yugoslavia
b) Macedonian question
c) National cohabitation in B&H

12. Albania & Kosovo (18 December 2020)
Required reading: Eberhardt Piotr_Ethnic Groups and Population Changes in Twentieth-Century Central-Eastern Europe. Armonk-London 2003, pp. 356-7, 370-1, 420-423.
Presentation:
a) Albanian minority in Serbia
b) Kosovo: Kosovars or Albanians?
c) Albanian diaspora in the world

Poslední úprava: Vykoukal Jiří, doc. PhDr., CSc. (02.10.2024)