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From Empires to Nation States –
East-Central Europe 1890–1945 |
Andras Vári PhD, habil. associate
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From Empires to Nation States –
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Fluency
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The
course gives a comprehensive view of the functioning and as weel as the later
dissolution of the Habsburg Empire. It looks at the nation-states created at
the end of 1st World War in the Paris peace treaties as well as of the crises
and downfall of these states prior to the 2nd World War. Attention will be paid
to the problem of the national minorities, the economic stagnation and the
general inability of the new states of the wiiners to consolidate their
positions. The interwar authoritarian regimes of the loser states, Austria
and Hungary will be studied. Finally, we will read about the ascendency of
the new German Empire, the dissolution of Czechoslovakia and the course of the 2nd World War war the
outcome of which redefined Eastern Europe. |
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Az óra tematikája, vizsgakérdések stb. részletes ismertetése: |
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Week
1. The basic determinants of the Habsburg territories – lands, peoples,
empires. Week
2. The notions of nation and nationalism, the national movements up to 1890. Week
3. The social and political situation in Austria and Bohemia from the
electoral reform of 1882 to 1914. Week
4. The social and political situation in Hungary from 1890 to 1914. Week
5. The coming of the mass parties: the Socialist movement and the Christian
Socialist party in the Habsburg Empire to WW1. Week
6. WW1 and the dissolution of the
Habsburg Monarchy, the new national states, their alliance little entente Week
7. The subjected national minorities and their conflicts with the nations
states Week
8. The world economic depression, its
political consequences, the Austrian authoritarian regime Week
9. The Socialist experiment in interwar Austria Week
10. The slow economic recovery after the depression, the general economic
stagnation between the wars – the case for planned economies and corporatist
societies Week
11. Munich, the Anschluss, Germany’s and Hungary’s border revisions, the
creation of an independent Slovakia Week
12. WW2 Week 13. Term paper |
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Attendance
of classes makes 20% of scores, 30 % is given on the basis of a
30-minutes midterm paper on the 7th
week, 50% is given on the basis of a term paper For the term paper, you need
to read and study the literature as given. |
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Fontosabb kötelező irodalom jegyzéke |
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Very compressed events outline on Hungary: http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/spalffy/h_20.htm Outline, English view: H. Wickham-Steed: A short history of Austria-Hungary and Poland, 1st ed. 1914, accessible http://historicaltextarchive.com/books.php?op=viewbook&bookid=2&pre=1 Outline history from a Polish point of view: Oscar Halecki: A History of East Central Europe, 1st ed. 1952 http://historicaltextarchive.com/books.php?op=viewbook&bookid=1&pre=1 Also an outline: C. A. Macartney, Hungary: A Short History. Edinburgh, 1962, accessible http://historicaltextarchive.com/books.php?op=viewbook&bookid=5&pre=1 Eduard Beneš, My War Memoirs http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1918benes1.html Eduard Beneš, Five Years of Czechoslovak Foreign
Policy http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1924benes1.html Ivan Derer, The Unity of the Czechs and the Slovaks:
Has the Pittsburgh Declaration been Carried Out? http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1838slovakia1.html David F. Good: Economic Transformation in Central Europe: The View from History http://www.cas.umn.edu/pdf/wp921.pdf Oscar Jaszi: The Dissolution of the Habsburg Monarchy, Xerox Jules Jezequal, Roumania Ten Years After http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1928transylvania1.html Pieter M. Judson: Inventing
Germanness: Class, Ethnicity, and Colonial Fantasy at the Margins of the
Habsburg Monarchy http://www.cas.umn.edu/pdf/wp932.pdf Károly Kocsis: Findings
about the Demographic-Ethnic Geography of Hungarian National Minorities in
the Carpathian Basin. In: Minorities Research 1. http://www.hhrf.org/kisebbsegkutatas/mr_01/cikk.php?id=1168 Masaryk: Independent Bohemia (1915) http://www.h-net.org/~habsweb/sourcetexts/masaryk1.htm James Miller: Agrarian Politics in Interwar Austria Lynn Nelson: The great
depression, http://historicaltextarchive.com/sections.php?op=viewarticle&artid=716 Ignác Romsics: The
Great Powers and the Disintegration of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. In: Minorities
Research 3. http://www.hhrf.org/kisebbsegkutatas/mr_03/cikk.php?id=1241 Richard Rudolph, National
Minorities in East Central Europe and the Balkans in Historical Perspective http://www.cas.umn.edu/pdf/wp927.pdf Mark Twain: "Stirring Times in Austria", http://www.h-net.org/~habsweb/sourcetexts/twain1.htm |
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