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Lecturer(s)
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Holešovský Václav, doc. PhDr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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Course is dealing with a time period from Congress of Vienna to the eastern enlargement of the European Union. Content is the political and social history of Central Europe. Ground is the development of small middle european nations: Czechs, Slovaks, Poles, Hungarian, Slovenes and jews in 19th and 20th century, role of Germans and Germany in creating the Central Europe in different historical periods. Course is two semestral. In the first part will deal with the time period from the 19th century to the beginning of the Second World War. 1938/1939. Systmeatic historical explication will deal with topics such as: Austria after 1815; the First World War; origin of "new Europe" - 1918/1919; central-eastern Europe interwar; Central Europe at the beginning of the Second World War. Emphasis will be on situation of minorites (especially on jewish community and german minorites in middle and eastern Europe). Selected topics: 1. Introduction to the issues, discusion on notion "Central Europe" in hitsorical periods 2. "At the beginning was Napoleon!" - big movements and Central Europe (nationalism, libaralism and conservatism) 3. "Nation vs. State" - german national unity, 1848 revolution in Central Europe 4. The beginnings of modernization in Central Europe 5. Integration projects in the half of the 19th century (F. List vs. K. L. von Bruck) 6. Optimism of ""gründers era" and the crises - liberal government in austria and "conservative" shift in Germany 1879 7. Central Europe in the imperialism times (economic miracle and its shadows) 8. Central powers and "big war" - from F. Naumann to Brest-Litovsk 9. New world order - middle Europe as "cordon sanitaire"? 10. Post war society - nations and minorites 11. Problems of democracy - from Habsburg to Hitler 12. Economic and politic relationship in Danube (Rome records, Little Entente and Germany) 13. Anschluss, Munich 1938 and the way to the war
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Lecture supplemented with a discussion, Seminar classes, Lecture
- Contact hours
- 26 hours per semester
- Preparation for an examination (30-60)
- 78 hours per semester
- Practical training (number of hours)
- 26 hours per semester
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| Course requires no special prior knowledge and skills. |
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| Students will create a timeline of major historical events in modern Central European history from the Congress of Vienna till World War II. They will analyze the relationship between Austria and the German states and evaluate the position of small nations in the Austrian Empire. Further they will recognize and formulate the causes of the collapse of Austria-Hungary. |
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| Lecture |
| Lecture supplemented with a discussion |
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| Combined exam |
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Recommended literature
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Břach, Radko. Československo a Evropa v polovině dvacátých let. Praha ; Paseka, 1996. ISBN 80-7185-077-2.
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Gabal, Ivan. Etnické menšiny ve střední Evropě : konflikt nebo integrace. Praha : G plus G, 1999. ISBN 80-86103-23-4.
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Klimek, A.; Kubů, E. Československá zahraniční politika 1918-1938. kapitoly z dějin mezinárodních vztahů. Praha : Institut pro středoevropskou kulturu a politiku, 1995. ISBN 80-85241-88-9.
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Kořalka, Jiří; Nodl, Martin. Češi v habsburské říši a v Evropě 1815 - 1914 : sociálněhistorické souvislosti vytváření novodobého národa a národnostní otázky v českých zemích. Praha : Argo, 1996. ISBN 80-7203-022-1.
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Křen, Jan. Dvě století střední Evropy. Praha : Argo, 2005. ISBN 80-7203-612-2.
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