Demokratier och diktaturer i Europa under 1900-talet, 7.5 högskolepoäng

Obligatorisk kurslitteratur:

Books to be bought or borrowed:

Fitzpatrick, Sheila. “The Magic Tablecloth” In Everyday Stalinism. Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999). 89‑114 (25 p.).

Mazower, Mark. The dark continent (2001). (300 pp) Kan ersättas med: Mark Mazower. Den mörka kontinenten (2000). (300 p.)

McMahon, Robert. The Cold War: A Very Short Introduction (2003), Oxford Univ. Press (100 p.)

Merriman, John. A history of Modern Europe (2010). WW Norton, ISBN 978 0 393 93433 5., 993‑1175 ), (182 p.)

Read: "Great War", "Russia", "The Collapse" and "Frontier Europe", pp. 836‑955, 1176‑1238 (ca. 180 p)

Plokhy, Serhii. The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union. Basic Books (2014). “Introduction” xii‑xxii; “The Party Crasher” 24‑4). (33 p.)

Available on‑line:

Carr, Matthew. Fortress Europe: Dispatches from a Gated Continent, New Press, 2016 (75 p.) Available on‑line from the library.

Discovering the Western Past: A look at the evidence, chapter 11 (World War 1: Total War), p. 290‑322. (32 p.)

Saraceno, Chiara. “Redefining maternity and paternity: gender, pronatalism and social policies in fascist Italy.” In Maternity and Gender Policies. Women and the Rise of the European Welfare States, 1805‑1905 edited by Gisela Bock andPatricia Thane. (London: Routledge, 1991). 196‑221 (25 p.)

In addition, students will read about 150 pages of on‑line articles and/or book chapters; sets of readings will be provided according to the student’s choice of one of three themes (the modern European far‑right, European ecology, or European migration policies). They will also be asked to view several Youtube films, of a total of 150 minutes.

https://www.britannica.com/place/Spain/Francos‑Spain‑1939‑75

Lovell, Stephen. The Soviet Union: A Very Short Introduction (2009), ISBN 9780199238484, Oxford Univ. Press.

Total: 942 pages.