INTRODUCTION TO THE LITERATURE OF
EAST CENTRAL EUROPEAN HISTORY

 

26 January. Introduction.

2 February. Does Central Europe Exist?

Jeno Szucs "The Three Historical Regions of Europe." Acta Historica Academiae Scientarium Hungaricae 29 (1983) 2-3: 131-84.

Peter Kruger. "Mitteleuropa -- ein europaisches Strukturproblem." and Rudolf Jaworski. "Ostmitteleuropa. Zur Tauglichkeit und Akzeptanz eines historischen Hilfsbegriffs." In: Winfried Eberhard, et al. eds. Westmitteleuropa -- Ostmitteleuropa. Vergleiche und Beziehungen. Festschrift fur Ferdinant Seibt zum 65. Geburtstag. Munchen: R. Oldenbourg, 1992. 23-45.

Tony Judt. "The Rediscovery of Central Europe." In: Stephen R. Graubard. Eastern Europe...Central Europe...Europe. Boulder: Westview, 1991. 23-58.

Gale Stokes. "Eastern Europe's Defining Fault Lines." In: Gale Stokes. Three Eras of Political Change in Eastern Europe. NY/Oxford: Oxford UP, 1997. 7-22.

Iver B. Neumann. "Russia as Central Europe's Constituting Other." East European Politics and Societies 7 (1993) 349-69.

9 February. Do the Balkans Exist?

Maria Todorova. Imagining the Balkans. Oxford: Oxford University, 1997

Gale Stokes. "Dependency and the Rise of Nationalism in Southeast Europe." In: Gale Stokes. Three Eras of Political Change in Eastern Europe. NY/Oxford: Oxford UP, 1997. 23-45.

16 February. "Backwardness" and Modernization in East Central Europe.

Daniel Chirot. "Causes and Consequences of Backwardness," Robert Brenner. "Economic Backwardness in Eastern Europe in Light of Developments in the West," Peter Gunst. "Agrarian Systems of Central and Eastern Europe," and Gale Stokes. "The Social Origins of East European Politics." In: Daniel Chirot, ed. The Origins of Backwardness in Eastern Europe. Economics and Politics from the Middle Ages until the Early Twentieth Century. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989. 1-91, 177-209.

George Schopflin. "The Political Traditions of Eastern Europe." In: Stephen R. Graubard. Eastern Europe...Central Europe...Europe. Boulder: Westview, 1991. 59-94. [Is Chapter One of his Politics in Eastern Europe.]

23 February. The Long Duree.

Katherine Verdery. Transylvanian Villagers. Three Centuries of Political, Economic and Ethnic Change. Berkeley: University of California, 1983.

OR:

Daniel Chirot. Social Change in a Peripheral Society. The Creation of a Balkan Colony. NY: Academic Press, 1976.

2 March. A Completely Different Way of Doing History.

John Komlos. Nutrition and Economic Development in the Eighteenth-Century Habsburg Monarchy. An Anthropometric History. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1989.

Tony Judt. "A Clown in Regal Purple: Social History and the Historians." History Workshop 7 (1979) 66-94.

9 March. The Army and the Question of the Multiethnic Empire.

Istvan Deak. Beyond Nationalism: A Social and Political History of the Habsburg Officer Corps, 1848-1918. Oxford: Oxford University, 1990.

Selections from Karen Barkey and Mark von Hagen, eds. After Empire. Multiethnic Societies and Nation-Building: The Soviet Union and the Russian, Ottoman and Habsburg Empires. Boulder: Westview, 1997.

Robert A. Kann. "The Dynasty and the Imperial Idea." In: Robert A Kann. Dynasty, Politics and Culture. Selected Essays. Stanley B. Winters, ed. Social Science Monographs 317. Boulder: Social Science Monographs, 1991. 45-67.

16 March. Spring Break.

23 March. Nationalism.

Rogers Brubaker. Nationalism Reframed. The National Question in the New Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University, 1996.

30 March. Nation Building..

Irina Livezeanu. Cultural Politics in Greater Romania: Regionalism, Nation Building and Ethnic Struggle, 1918-1980. Ithaca: Cornell University, 1995.

6 April. The Problem of Fascism in the East Central European Context.

Vladimir Tismaneanu. "Romania's Mystical Revolutionaries: The Generation of Angst and Adventure Revisited." East European Politics and Societies 8 (1994) 3:402-38.

Daniel Chirot. "Who Influenced Whom? Xenophobic Nationalism in Germany and Romania." In: Roland Schonfeld. Germany and Southeastern Europe -- Aspects of Relations in the Twentieth Century. Sudosteuropa-Studie 58. Munchen: Sudosteuropa- Gesellschaft, 1997. 37-57.

Selections (primarily on Hungary and Romania) from:

Stein Larsen, ed. Who Were the Fascists? Social Roots of European Fascism. Bergen: Universitetsforlaget, 1980.

Hans Rogger and Eugen Weber, eds. The European Right: A Historical Profile. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1965.

13 April. The "Jewish Question"

Istvan Bibo. "The Jewish Question in Hungary." In: Democracy, Revolution, Self-Determination. Selected Writings. Boulder: Social Science Monographs, 1991. 155-324.

Ferenc Feher. "Istvan Bibo and the Jewish Question in Hungary: Notes in the Margin of a Classical Essay." New German Critique 21 (Fall, 1980) 3-46.

Selections from: Randolph Braham, ed. Anti-Semitism and the Treatment of the Holocaust in Postcommunist Europe. Boulder: East European Monographs, 1994.

20 April. The "German Question" and the End of the Old East Central Europe

Karl Schlogel. Die Mitte liegt ostwarts. Die Deutschen, der verlorene Osten und Mitteleuropa. Berlin: Corso bei Seidler, 1986.

Andreas Hillgruber. Zweierlei Untergang. Die Zerschlagung des deutschen Reiches und das Ende des europaischen Judentums. Berlin: Corso bei Seidler, 1986.

Jacques Rupnik. "Central Europe or Mitteleuropa?" In: Stephen R. Graubard, ed. Eastern Europe...Central Europe...Europe. Boulder: Westview, 1991.

Bradley Abrams. "Morality, Wisdom and Revision: The Czech Opposition of the 1970s and the Expulsion of the Sudeten Germans." East European Politics and Societies 9 (1995) 234-55.

27 April. One Classic, or Respect Your Elders: Debating the Coming of Communism.

Hugh Seton-Watson. The East European Revolution. New York: Praeger: 1951.

Jan Gross. "War as Revolution," and Igor Lukes "The Czech Road to Communism." In: Norman Naimark and Leonid Gabianskii, eds. The Establishment of Communist Regimes in Eastern Europe, 1944-1949. Boulder: Westview, 1997. 17-40 and 243-65.

4 May. The Working Class, Socialism and Dissent.

Roman Laba. The Roots of Solidarity. A Political Sociology of Poland's Working-Class Democratization. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1991.

11 May. Teaching East Central Europe.

Skim:

Joseph Rothschild. Return to Diversity. A Political History of East Central Europe SinceWorld War II. Oxford: Oxford University, 1993.

OR

Thomas W. Simons, Jr. Eastern Europe in the Postwar World. New York: St. Martin's, 1991.

OR

Geoff and Nigel Swain. Eastern Europe Since 1945. New York: St. Martin's, 1993.

AND:

Joseph Held, ed. The Columbia History of Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century. Columbia: Columbia University, 1992.

AND the relevant chapters of at least one of the following:

Lonnie R. Johnson. Central Europe: Enemies, Neighbors, Friends. Oxford: Oxford, 1996.

Philip Longworth. The Making of Eastern Europe. New York: St. Martin's, 1992.

Piotr Wandycz. The Price of Freedom: A History of East Central Europe from the Middle Ages to the Present. New York: Routledge, 1993.

 

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