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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 central 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. Subject matter in the second part of the course will be events from 1939 to the beginning of the 21st century. Systmeatic historical explication will deal with topics such as: the Second World War and Central Europe; Central Europe during the Cold War; revolts in 1956; year 1968; normalization and democratic revolution 1989. Course will end with the way of "new domocracies" to the European Union in the years 1993 - 2004. Part of the course will be discusion on the notion "Central Europe", introduction of main concepts of Central Europe in the context of small nations in relationship to Germany and Austria. 1. War 1939 - 45 - occupational policy of the Third Reich in Central Europe 2. Collaboration, reistance, revolt (Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, Sudetenland, Eastern Marchia, Slovakia, occupied Poland, Hungary, Croatia) 3. Race tragedy - nazi and jews 4. From Warsaw Uprising 1944 to the february putsch 1948 (soviet effect on Central and Eastern Europe) 5. Forced shift of inhabitans 1945 - 1948 - "transfer" or "expulsion" 6. Divided Germany and Austria on the edge?! 7. From the beginning of the cold War to the firt resistance in 1953 (GDR) and 1956 (Poland, hungary) 8. Long Fifties - soviet block "after Stalin" vs. prosperity of the West 9. From the construction of the Berlin Wall 1961 to the movement of 1968 10. Ostpolitik of W. Brandt, liberalization and the beginning of the "normalization" 11. "The year of Miracles" 1989, german unification 1990 and Visegrád - bilaterall relationships or multilateralism 12. From the release of the market to the eastern enlargement of the European Union (before and after Copenhagen 1993) 13 The way to the Europe 1998 - 2004 (fulfilment of criteria, negotiation and temnporary state)
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Lecture supplemented with a discussion, Lecture
- Contact hours
- 26 hours per semester
- Preparation for comprehensive test (10-40)
- 26 hours per semester
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| Course theme continues "Modern History of Central Europe 1" (KSA/MDHN1). |
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| Students will create a timeline of major historical events in modern Central European history since World War II until the eastern enlargement of EU. They will analyze post-war organization of Central Europe and evaluate the consequences of division of Central European states in the Eastern and Western bloc. Further they will recognize and formulate the importance of entry of Visegrád Four into the EU. |
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Recommended literature
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Černoch, Pavel. Cesta do EU : východní rozšíření Evropské unie a Česká republika v období 1990-2004. Praha : Linde, 2003. ISBN 80-86131-40-8.
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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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Křen, Jan. Dvě století střední Evropy. Praha : Argo, 2005. ISBN 80-7203-612-2.
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Kural, V. Místo společenství konflikt! Češi a Němci ve Velkoněmecké říši a cesta k odsunu (1938-1945). Praha, 1994.
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Táborský, E. Prezident Beneš mezi Západem a Východem. Praha, 1994.
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Vykoukal, Jiří; Litera, Bohuslav; Tejchman, Miroslav. Východ : vznik, vývoj a rozpad sovětského bloku 1944-1989. Praha : Libri, 2000. ISBN 80-85983-82-6.
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