Modern Western European Social History

Pre-requisites: Completed bachelor's and some proficiency in three foreign languages.

Course objectives: Students will be introduced to the major events and phenomena that occurred during the 20th century, chronologically and by issue: the period of the First word war, history between wars in Europe and outside of europe, Second world war, and the postwar period.

Course description: This course is of a general scope 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 fifteen 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 outside europe, Second world war, period of the „Cold War“. Attention will be given to (other than causes, effects a courses the two world wars and other relevant events from 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 (bolshevist movement, fascism, national-socialism, changes in parlamentary liberal democracies, models of european integration, etc). We will also focus on 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 change.

Learning Outcomes: Students should be capable of scientific research of social history.

Literature/Reading:

• 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