This course is available on the BA in History, BSc in Government and History, BSc in International Relations and History and BSc in Politics and History. This course is available as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students. May be taken by 3rd years where regulations permit.
This course is available on the BA in History, BSc in Government and History, BSc in International Relations and History and BSc in Politics and History. This course is available as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students. May be taken by 3rd years where regulations permit.
Lectures will be online. The School aims to run in-person classes, subject to circumstances, with some online provision if and where necessary.. There will be a reading week in the Michaelmas and the Lent terms.
One essay in the MT
R J Crampton, Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century (1994); S K Pavlowitch, A History of the Balkans 1804-1945 (1999); I Y T Berend, Decades of Crisis. Central and Eastern Europe before World War II (1998); A J Prazmowska, Eastern Europe and the Outbreak of the Second World War (1999); P G Lewis, Central Europe since 1945 (1994); T Rakowska-Harmstone, Communism in Eastern Europe (1979); G Swain & N Swain, Eastern Europe since 1945 (1993); F Fejto, A History of the People's Democracies; Eastern Europe since Stalin (1971); J Rothschild, Return to Diversity. A Political History of East Central Europe since World War II (1990); G Stokes, The Walls Came Tumbling Down. The Collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe (1993);?John Connelly, From Peoples into Nations. A History of Eastern Europe (2020); Iam D. Armour,? A History of Eastern Europe 1918 to the Present.? Modernisation, Ideology and Nationality (2021)
Exam (75%, duration: 3 hours) in the summer exam period. Essay (25%, 3000 words) in the LT.