Western European 20th Century Social History

Pre-requisites: Some completed bachelor's studies and knowledge of at least one foreign language

Course objectives: An introduction to the major events and phenomena in social history in Western Europe (from WWI to the end of the 1990's) and developing a methodological and factual basis for conducting independent research on the subject.

Course description: This course is of a general nature, and is devoted to studying some of the major appearances and events that marked the history of the 20th century between the years of 1914. and 1990/1. Over the course of 15 lectures, this class will encompass and divide according to chronology and topic:the period of the First word war, history between wars in Europe and beyond europe, Second world war, period of the „Cold War“. Attention will be given to (besides looking at causes, effects and the duration of the two world wars and other relevant events in the 20th century) a broader group of questions related to the political history of Europe and key state-players outside of europe, including the influences and creation of various ideologies and political movements (bolshevism, fascism, national-socialism, changes in parlamental liberal democracies, ideas in european integration, etc). We will also focus lon questions related to economics and social history (economic trends, economic crises and recessions and the steps taken to overcome them, effects of war and ideological „models“ on the economy, demographic changes, migrations, urbanization and similar);

Learning Outcomes: At a professional level, students will be able to apply basic analytical thinking and methods in the study of history and use historical sources and literature.

Literature/Reading:

• Mos, L. D., Istorija rasizma u Evropi, Beograd, 2005.
• Laker V, Evropa posle Drugog svetskog rata, Beograd 1991
• Šmale, Volfgang, Istorija evropske ideje, Beograd, 2002
• Kuljić, Todor, Fašizam. Sociološko-istorijska studija, Beograd 1988
• Andrej Mitrović, Angažovano i lepo, Beograd 1983.
• Erik Hobsbaum, Doba ekstrema, Beograd 2002
• C. F. Ware, Dvadeseto stoljeće 1-4, Zagreb 1969.
• Piter Kalvokorezi i Gaj Vint, Totalni rata, Beograd 1987
• Mihael Geler, Aleksandar Nekrič, Utopija na vlasti. Istorija Sovjetskog Saveza, Podgorica 2000.
• Laker V, Evropa posle Drugog svetskog rata, Beograd 1991