PROBLEMS OF COMMUNISM IN EAST CENTRAL EUROPE

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9 September. Introduction.

16 September. Historical overview.

Joseph Rothschild. Return to Diversity. A Political History of East Central Europe Since World War Two. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1993.

23 September. War as Revolution? 196.

Interwar background: Hugh Seton-Watson. The East European Revolution. NY: Praeger, 1951. 6-7, 10-48.

E. A. Radice. “Economic Developments in Eastern Europe under German Hegemony.” In Martin McCauley, ed. Communist Power in Europe. London: Macmillan, 1977. 3-21

Gordon Wright. “The Impact of Total War.” Chapter Eleven of The Ordeal of Total War, 1939-1945. New York: Harper and Row, 1968. 234-67.

Jan Gross. “The Social Consequences of War: Preliminaries for the Study of the Imposition of Communist Regimes in East Central Europe.” East European Politics and Societies 3 (1989) 198-214.

Bradley Abrams. “The Communist Task: The Creation of a New Czechoslovakia” and “The Battle Over the Recent Past I.” Chapters Three and Four of “`The Struggle for the Soul of the Nation': Czech Culture and Socialism 1945-1948.” Unpublished Ph. D. dissertation. Stanford University, 1997. 117-62.

E. A. Radice. “The Collapse of German Hegemony and its Economic Consequences.” Chapter Twenty of M. C. Kaser and E. A. Radice, eds. The Economic History of Eastern Europe 1919-1975. Oxford: Clarendon, 1986. 495-519.

Paul Robert Magocsi. “Population Movements, 1944-1948.” In: Historical Atlas of East Central Europe. Seattle/London: University of Washington Press, 1993. 164-8.

30 September. The Problem of Imposition: The Polish and Czechoslovak Cases. 222.

Jacques Rupnik. “The Legacy of Yalta.” Chapter Four of The Other Europe. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1989. 63-108.

Norman Davies. “Poland” and Vladimir V. Kusin. “Czechoslovakia.” In Macauley, ed. 39-57 and 73-94.

Norman Naimark and Leonid Gabianskii. “Introduction,” John Micgiel. “`Bandits and Reactionaries': The Suppression of Opposition in Poland,” 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. 1-16, 93-110 and 243-65.

Bradley Abrams. “Socialism and Communist Intellectuals: the `Czechoslovak Road to Socialism?'” and “Socialism and Democratic Socialist Intellectuals: The `New Socialist Ethos.” Chapters Eight and Nine of “`The Struggle for the Soul of the Nation': Czech Culture and Socialism 1945-1948.” Ph.D. Dissertation. Stanford University, 1997. 256-335, 352-5.

7 October. The Problem of Stalinism in East Central Europe. 181

Ivan T. Berend. “The Closed Society in Stalinist State Socialism after 1948.” Chapter Two of Central and Eastern Europe, 1944-1993. Detour from the Periphery to the Periphery. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. 39-93.

Eugen Loebl. My Mind on Trial. NY: Harvest/HBJ, 1976. 194-205.

Czeslaw Milosz. “Preface” and “The Pill of Murti-Bing,” “Looking to the West,” “Ketman,” and “Man, This Enemy.” Chapters One through Three and Eight of The Captive Mind. New York: Vintage, 1981. vii-xiv, 3-81 and 191-222.

Film: “Man of Marble.”

14 October. The First Major Political Crisis of Communism in East Central Europe: Hungary and Poland 1956. 205

Grzegorz Ekiert. The State Against Society. Political Crises and Their Aftermath in East Central Europe. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1996. 3-120.

Set of documents from Paul E. Zinner, ed. National Communism and Popular Revolt in Eastern Europe. NY: Columbia UP, 1956. 29.

Set of documents from Edmund Stillman, ed. Bitter Harvest. The Intellectual Revolt Behind the Iron Curtain. London, Thames and Hudson, ###. 54.

Imre Nagy. “Ethics and Morals in Hungarian Public Life.” In: On Communism. In Defence of the New Course. London: Thames and Hudson, 1957. 43-7.

21 October. The Second Major Political Crisis of Communism in East Central Europe: Czechoslovakia 1968. 221.

Grzegorz Ekiert. The State Against Society. Political Crises and Their Aftermath in East Central Europe. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1996. 121-215.

Kieran Williams. “Liberalization, Intervention, and Normalization.” Part One of The Prague Spring and Its Aftermath. Czechoslovak Politics 1968-1970. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1997. 3-59.

“The Action Program of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia; April 5, 1968,” L. Vaculik. “`2000 Words' Statement” and I. Alexandrov. “Attack on the Socialist Foundations of Czechoslovakia.” In: Robin Alison Remington. Winter in Prague. Documents on Czechoslovak Communism in Crisis. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1969. 88-137, 196-207.

28 October. The Third Major Political Crisis of Communism in East Central Europe: Poland 1980. 205

Grzegorz Ekiert. The State Against Society. Political Crises and Their Aftermath in East Central Europe. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1996. 215-330.

Roman Laba. “Introduction,” The Ideological Origins of Solidarity,” and “Fashionable Myths and Proletarian Realities.” Chapters One, Eight and Nine of The Roots of Solidarity. A Political Sociology of Poland's Working-Class Democratization. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1991. 3-12, 155-82.

Alex Pravda. “The Workers.” In: Abraham Brumberg, ed. Poland, Genesis of a Revolution. New York: Vintage, 1983. 68-91.

Alex Pravda. “Political Attitudes and Activity” and Jiri Valenta. “Czechoslovakia: a Prolétariat Embourgeoisé?” In: Jan F. Triska and Charles Gati, eds. Blue-Collar Workers in Eastern Europe. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1981. 43-69 and 209-223.

Film: “Man of Steel.”

4 November. The Problems of Communist Economics and International Relations. 173.

J. F. Brown. “Soviet-East European Relations,” “Relations with the West and the Impact of Détente” and “An Economic Overview.” chapters Two through Four of Eastern Europe Under Communist Rule. Durham: Duke UP, 1987. 30-157.

Valerie Bunce. “The Empire Strikes Back: The Evolution of the Eastern Bloc from a Soviet Asset to a Soviet Liability.” International Organization 39 (1985) 1-46.

11 November. The Problem of the Intellectuals. 117+ 56, 73, 79.

Vladimir Tismaneanu. “From Criticism to Apostasy” and “Peace, Human Rights, Dissent.” Chapters Seven and Eight of The Crisis of Marxist Ideology in Eastern Europe. The Poverty of Utopia. London/NY: Routledge, 1988. 121-182.

Tony Judt. “The Dilemmas of Dissidence: The Politics of Opposition in Eastern Europe.” East European Politics and Societies 2 (1988) 184-240.

Milan Kundera. “The Tragedy of Central Europe.” Granta ###

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Adam Michnik. “A New Evolutionism” and “Maggots and Angels.” In: Letters from Prison and Other Essays. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1985. 135-48 and 169-98.

Piotr Wierzbicki “A Treatise on Ticks” In: Abraham Brumberg, ed. Poland, Genesis of a Revolution. New York: Vintage, 1983.198-211

OR

Vaclav Havel. “The Power of the Powerless.” In: John Keane, ed. The Power of the Powerless. Citizens Against the State in Central-Eastern Europe. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1985. 23-96.

OR:

Gyorgy Konrad. Antipolitics. New York: Henry Hold, 1984. 91-8, 104-96.

18 November. The Problem of Nationalism in a Communist State. 230.

Katherine Verdery. National Ideology Under Socialism. Identity and Cultural Politics in Ceausescu's Romania. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press. 1991. 1-214 and 302-18.

25 November. The Problems of Everyday Life and the Youth. 253.

Slavenka Drakulic. How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed. London: Hutchinson, 1992.

Katherine Verdery. “The Etatization of Time in Ceausescu's Romania.” In: Katherine Verdery. What Was Socialism and What Comes Next? Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996. 39-57.

Sabrina Petra Ramet. “Rock Music and Counterculture” and “Young People: The Lost Generation.” Chapters Nine and Ten of Social Currents in Eastern Europe. The Sources and Consequences of the Great Transformation. Durham: Duke UP, 1995. 234-76.

Recommended: László Kürti. “`How Can I Be a Human Being?' Culture, Youth and Musical Opposition in Hungary.” In: Sabrina Petra Ramet, ed. Rocking the State. Rock Music and Politics in Eastern Europe and Russia. Boulder: Westview, 1994. 73-102.

2 December. The Problem of Sex Equality.

Alfred G. Meyer. “Feminism, Socialism, and Nationalism in Eastern Europe” and Sharon L. Wolchik. “The Precommunist Legacy, Economic Development, Social Transformation, and Women's Roles in Eastern Europe.” In: Meyer and Wolchik, eds. Women, State, and Party in Eastern Europe. Durham: Duke University Press, 1985. 13-43.

Sabrina Petra Ramet. “Feminism in Yugoslavia.” Chapter Nine of Social Currents in Eastern Europe. The Sources and Consequences of the Great Transformation. Durham: Duke UP, 1995. 219-33.

Barbara Einhorn. “An Allergy to Feminism: Women's Movements Before and After 1989.” Chapter Six of Cinderella Goes to Market. London/New York: Verso, 1993. 186-215.

Selections from Nanette Funk and Magda Mueller, eds. Gender Politics and Post-Communism. New York/London: Routledge, 1993. [“Feminism East and West,” Jirina Siklova. “Are Women in Central and Eastern Europe Conservative?” etc.]

Selections from Barbara Wolfe Jancar. Women Under Communism. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1978.

OR

The Problem of the Environment. 146+

Barbara Jancar-Webster. “Environmental Politics in Eastern Europe in the 1980s.” In: Joan DeBardeleben, ed. To Breathe Free. Eastern Europe's Environmental Crisis. Washington, DC and Baltimore/London: Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991. 25-55.

F. W. Carter. “Czechoslovakia,” D. Hinrichsen and I. Lang. “Hungary,” F. W. Carter “Poland” and F. W. Carter and D. Turnock. “A Review of Environmental Issues in the Light of the Transition.” In: F. W. Carter and D. Turnock, eds. Environmental Problems in Eastern Europe. London/New York: Routledge, 1996.63-134, 206-51.

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The Problem of National Minorities

Readings on Hungarians in Czechoslovakia and Romania, Turks in Bulgaria, and Roma and Jews everywhere.

9 December. The End of Communism: What Was Socialism and What Are Its Legacies? 197.

Leslie Holmes. “Theories of the Collapse of Communist Power.” Chapter Two of Post-Communism. An Introduction. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1997. 23-62.

James R. Millar and Sharon L. Wolchik. “Introduction: The Social Legacies and Aftermath of Communism.” In: James R. Millar and Sharon L. Wolchik, eds. The Social Legacy of Communism. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press and the Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 1994. 1-28.

Katherine Verdery. “What Was Socialism and Why Did It Fall?” In: Katherine Verdery. What Was Socialism and What Comes Next? Princeton: Princeton UP, 1996. 19-38.

Daniel Chirot. “What Happened in Eastern Europe in 1989?” In: Daniel Chirot, ed. The Crisis of Leninism and the Decline of the Left. Seattle: Univ. of Washington, 1991. 3-32.

Ken Jowitt. “The Leninist Extinction,” “The Leninist Legacy” and “A World Without Leninism.” In: Ken Jowitt. New World Disorder. The Leninist Extinction. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992. 249-331.

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