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Syllabus FALL OF COMMUNISM IN EUROPE - 39078 Last update 14-01-2015 HU Credits: 4 Degree/Cycle: 1st degree (Bachelor) Responsible Department: History Academic year: 2 Semester: Yearly Teaching Languages: Hebrew Campus: Mt. Scopus Course/Module Coordinator: Yitzhak Brudny Coordinator Email: yitzhak.brudny@mail.huji.ac.il Coordinator Office Hours: Monday, 17:00-18:00; Tuesday, 17:00-18:00 Teaching Staff: Dr. Yitzhak Brudny page 1 / 5

Course/Module description: In Eastern, Central, and Southern Europe Communist regimes lasted between 54 and 73 years. In some countries (), they were result of a popular revolution, in others were imposed from above by the Soviet Union at the end of World War II (Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, GDR). All communist regimes in Europe collapsed between 1989 and 1991. The goal of the course is to explain why and how these regimes collapsed. The course will trace the history of these regimes from about 1945 to 1991. Course/Module aims: Understanding of the development of the Soviet regimes in Europe between 1945-1991 as a political, socio-economic, and cultural phenomenon. Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to: In this course students will acquire tools to analyze one of the most important phase in Soviet, Central, and Southern European history, after World War 2. Attendance requirements(%): 100% Teaching arrangement and method of instruction: Lecturing and class discussion Course/Module Content: Introduction Part One: Historical Legacies Part Two: De-Stalinization & Political Change: 1956-1968 Part Three: From Stagnation to Reforms: 1968-1988 Part Four: From Reforms to Revolution: 1988-1991 Part Five: The Collapse of Communism: A Debate Required Reading: Introduction Andrew C. Janos, What Was Communism: A Retrospective in Comparative page 2 / 5

Analysis, Communist and Post-Post-Communist Studies, vol. 29, no. 1 (1996), pp. 1-24. Part One: Historical Legacies : Stalinist Legacy Robert C. Tucker, Stalinism as Revolution from Above, in Robert C. Tucker, ed., Stalinism: Essays in Historical Interpretation (New York: Norton, 1977), pp. 77-108. Philip Hanson, The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Economy (London: Longman, 2003), ch. 1. Central Europe and the Balkans Before 1945 Joseph Rothschild & Nancy M. Wingfield, Return to Diversity: A Political History of East Central Europe Since World War II (New York: Oxford UP, 2000), ch. 1-2. Central Europe and the Balkans, 1945-1956 Archie Brown, The Rise and Fall of Communism, ch. 9-10, 12. Ivan T. Berend, Central and Eastern Europe, 1944-1993 (New York, Cambridge UP, 1996), ch. 2. Part Two: De-Stalinization & Political Change: 1956-1968 Archie Brown, The Rise and Fall of Communism, ch. 13-14. Central Europe and the Balkans Archie Brown, The Rise and Fall of Communism, ch. 15. Berend, Central and Eastern Europe, ch. 3. Part Three: From Stagnation to Reforms: 1968-1988 Archie Brown, The Rise and Fall of Communism, ch. 20. Peter Houslohner, Politics before Gorbachev, in Alexander Dallin and Gail Lapidus, eds., The Soviet System: From Crisis to Collapse (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1995), pp. 37-63. Hanson, The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Economy, ch. 5. Central Europe & Balkans Archie Brown, The Rise and Fall of Communism, ch. 19, 21. Gale Stokes, The Walls Came Tumbling Down (New York: Oxford UP, 1993), ch. 1. Part Four: From Reforms to Revolution: 1988-1991 Archie Brown, The Rise and Fall of Communism, ch. 24-25, 27. Donna Bahry, Society Transformed: Rethinking the Social Roots of Perestroika, Slavic Review, vol. 52, no. 3 (Autumn, 1993), pp. 512-554. page 3 / 5

Central Europe Archie Brown, The Rise and Fall of Communism, ch. 26. ףszlבL Bruszt and David Stark, Remaking the Political Field in Hungary: From Politics of Confrontation to the Politics of Competition, in Ivo Banac, ed., Eastern Europe in Revolution (Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1992), pp. 13-55. Jan T. Gross, Poland: From Civil Society to Political Nation, Banac, Eastern Europe in Revolution, pp. 56-71. Tony R. Judt, Metamorphosis: The Democratic Revolution in Czechoslovakia, Banac, Eastern Europe in Revolution, pp. 97-116. Norman M. Naimark, Ich will hier raus: Emigration and the Collapse of the German Democratic Republic, Banac, Eastern Europe in Revolution, pp. 72-95. The Balkans Peter Siani-Davis, The Romanian Revolution of December 1989, ch. 2-3 Albert P. Melone, Bulgaria's National Roundtable Talks and the Politics of Accommodation, International Political Science Review, vol. 15, no. 3 (July 1994), pp. 257-273. Sabrina Ramet, Balkan Babel, ch. 3. Part Five: The Collapse of Communism: A Debate Archie Brown, The Rise and Fall of Communism, ch. 29. Z [Martin Malia], To the Stalin Mausoleum," in Dallin and Lapidus, The Soviet System: From Crisis to Collapse, pp. 649-673. Alexander Dallin, Causes of the Collapse of the, in Dallin and Lapidus, The Soviet System: From Crisis to Collapse, pp. 673-695. Discussion Stephen F. Cohens Was the Soviet Union Reformable? Slavic Review, vol. 63, no. 3 (Fall 2004), pp. 459-552 (Stephen F. Cohen, Archie Brown, Mark Kremer, Karen Dawisha, Stephen E. Hanson, and Georgi Derluguian). Additional Reading Material: Appears in the course's syllabus. Course/Module evaluation: End of year written/oral examination 0 % Presentation 0 % Participation in Tutorials 10 % Project work 60 % Assignments 0 % Reports 30 % Research project 0 % Quizzes 0 % Other 0 % page 4 / 5