General modern history –major social issues

Pre-requisites: Fulfilled academic obligations from previous years of study and proficiency in a foreign language

Course objectives: Introduction to the major events and phenomena from the political history of Western Europe(from World War I to the end of the 1990's) and providing students with a methodological and factual basis for independently researching topics in this field of interest.

Course description: History of western european countries and societies from the First World War to the end of the Cold war, focusing on events that shaped prominent social phenomena of this period. This course charts the major occurences and events in european social history during the Cold War; from the German Question to the beginning of the process of european integration; renewal of the western european economy and its rise; influences and directions in social and political change and dynamics. Case studies in social development: France, Great Britain, West Germany, Italy; from military defense integrations (NATO) to the European Union. Political parties and informal political movements; the revolt of 1968, detente and Europe, the question of European identity and defense from «americanization»; the uniting of Germany and its consequences.

Learning Outcomes: Students will be able to conceptually and problematically understand, analyze and adapt problems, processes and phenomena in modern social history.

Literature/Reading:

• C. F. Ware, Dvadeseto stoljeće 1-4, Zagreb 1969.
• Laker V, Evropa posle Drugog svetskog rata, Beograd 1991
• Šmale, Volfgang, Istorija evropske ideje, Beograd, 2002
• Andrej Mitrović, Angažovano i lepo, Beograd 1983.
• Mihael Geler, Aleksandar Nekrič, Utopija na vlasti. Istorija Sovjetskog Saveza, Podgorica 2000.
• Erik Hobsbaum, Doba ekstrema, Beograd 2002
• Mos, L. D., Istorija rasizma u Evropi, Beograd, 2005.
• Kuljić, Todor, Fašizam. Sociološko-istorijska studija, Beograd 1988
• Janson, Istorija umetnosti (više izdanja)
• D. Borstin, Amerikanci. Demokratstvo iskutsvo, Beograd 2005.