CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPEAN POLITICS POL 3154 A PROFESSOR IVAYLO GROUEV FALL 2014 Course schedule: Monday 11:30-13:00; Thursday 13:00-14:30 Course location: MRT 250 Office: FSS 7010 Office hours: by appointments Telephone: (613) 562-5754 E-mail: igrouev @uottawa.ca OFFICIAL COURSE DESCRIPTION Analysis of the evolution of political regimes in Russia and post-Soviet, Central and East European and Balkan states. The transformation of economic systems, the quest of markets, and corruption. Analysis of the process of political legitimization, state-society relations, and ethnic conflicts. GENERAL COURSE OBJECTIVES This course covers the history and politics of Central and Eastern Europe. This includes Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, as well as the Balkans: Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Romania. The course is structured in a way that will allow us to analyze key political developments influencing the history of Central and Eastern Europe. Topics to be covered in the readings and lectures include: the interwar period, the communist takeover; the nature of the communist system and regimes; the performance and decline of these regimes; (from Stalinism, de-Stalinization, to perestroika and Glasnost), the role of the intelligentsia and trade unions in shaping the political dynamics, and the revolutions of 1989. The course will also discuss some current economic and political trends in Central and Eastern Europe, transitions to democracy and to the market; challenges to European integration, the ethnic conflicts and identity shifts in some Balkan states, the interplay between different national projects and the collapse of Yugoslav Federation, as well as the 1999 NATO humanitarian intervention in Kosovo. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES The first objective of this course is to help students to develop the necessary analytical tools for understanding and analyzing different developments/trends in Central and Eastern Europe politics. The second objective is to help students to acquire in sufficient knowledge Central and Eastern Europe’s historical & political context. Lastly the third objective is to assist students to evolve intellectually and to become well informed about current political developments in the region and to critically assess these trends. Course Title (Course Code) Page 1 of 7 EVALUATION In this course there will be two tests: a mid-term (20%) and a final exam (30%). All exams will follow the same guidelines and format. Each exam will consist of short-answer questions based on the material covered in class and in the readings and an essay question. The essays will have to incorporate the following: a mastery of the factual information related to the question, understanding the concepts involved, ability to synthesize the information into a coherent theme, including proper spelling and grammar. Reading the textbook would be necessary for doing well on the essays. The final exam is cumulative and will be in the same format, as the mid term. A critical essay (30%) A critical review (8-10) pages typed, double-space on topics covered in POL 3154 A coursepack. Your analysis should make a large use of the conceptual tools you have acquired over the course. You will get additional instructions for this assignment over the term. Participations (10%) includes both attendance and active participation during the semester. Summary (10%) includes a page single spaced, a clear & concise summary of the main arguments/ideas/observations coming from selected texts from POL 3154 A coursepack. You will get additional instructions for this assignment over the term. Mid-term 20% Final Exam 30% A critical review essay 30% Participation 10% Summary 10% It is recommended that students keep all graded materials for the course until after they have received their final course grade. If there is a discrepancy concerning grades, the instructor's recorded grade for an assignment will stand, unless the student has the actual graded assignment with the correct grade. Students should save all typed assignments on their computer or on discs until after grades have posted in order to ensure that no problems arise. *Please note: The take home exam must be submitted to the professor directly, it cannot be slid under the office door. For useful tips on how to write a University paper, please refer to the following Website: http://www.sciencessociales.uottawa.ca/USB/cleusbkey.swf . REQUIRED TEXTS POL 3154 A Coursepack, RYTEC Printing 404 Dalhousie Street Ottawa, Ontario K1N 9J9 Telephone: 613-241-COPY (2679) COURSE OUTLINE Sept.4 Introduction Course Title (Course Code) Presentation of the syllabus Page 2 of 7 Sept.8 Lecture 1919 Versaille & (Re) Defining of Eastern Europe Larry Wolfe, “Introduction”, in Inventing Eastern Europe, The Map of Civilization on the Mind of the Enlightenment, Stanford University Press, Stanford, 1994.p.1-16 Joseph Rotchschild, “The Interwar Background” in A Political History of East Central Europe since World War II, Oxford University Press, New York, 1989, p.3-25 “Report of the Crimea Conference Yalta” in Gale Stokes From Stalinism to Pluralism, A Documentary History of Eastern Europe Since 1945, Oxford University Press, New York,1991, p.13.- p.19; “The Percentage Agreement,” p 31-31 Sept.11 Lecture 1945 and Beyond - A déjà vu Winston S. Churchill: "Iron Curtain Speech", March 5, 1946 http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/churchill-iron.html Joseph Stalin: “Reply to Churchill,” 1946 http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1946stalin.html Harry Truman, “Truman Doctrine” in, Gale Stokes From Stalinism to Pluralism, A Documentary History of Eastern Europe Since 1945, Oxford University Press, New York, 1991 p.35-37 Andrei Zhdanov, ”The Two Camp Doctrine” in Gale Stokes, From Stalinism to Pluralism, A Documentary History of Eastern Europe Since 1945, Oxford University Press, New York, 1991, p.35-37 Sept.15 Documentary The Brave New World, Peoples Century, 50 min. Sept.18 Lecture Eastern Europe between Stalinism and Titioism Hugh Seton Watson, “The Soviet Satellites”. In Socialist system and Soviet satellites, Capricorn Books,1961, p.75-97. “The Tito-Stalin Correspondence” , in Gale Stoke From Stalinism to Pluralism, A Documentary History of Eastern Europe Since 1945, Oxford University Press, New York, 1991, p.58-65. Sept.22 Lecture The Socialist system A Brave New World or the Era of Anti-politics Joseph Stalin (September 1938) Dialectical and Historical Materialism http://art-bin.com/art/ostalineng.html Janos Konrai,” The Anatomy of the Classical System”, and “Ideology” in The Socialist System , The Political Economy of Communism, Princeton Course Title (Course Code) Page 3 of 7 University Press, New Jersey, 1992, p. 33-61. Zbigniew Brzezinski, “The Grand Failure,” in The Grand Failure, the Birth and Death of Communism in the Twentieth Century”, Macmillan Publishing, New York, 1989, p. p.13-50. Sept.25 The Grapes of Wrath Lecture Imre Nagy, “Reform Communism”, in Gale Stoke From Stalinism to Pluralism, A Documentary History of Eastern Europe Since 1945, Oxford University Press, New York, 1991, p. 82-93. Ludvik Vaculik, “Two Thousand Words to Workers, Farmers Scientists, Artists, and Everyone, “Prague Spring” in Gale Stokes From Stalinism to Pluralism, A Documentary History of Eastern Europe Since 1945, Oxford University Press, New York, 1991, p.126-130. The Brezhnev Doctrine, Dayly Pravda, September 25, 1968 http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1968brezhnev.html Sept.29 Documentary “Oratorio for Prague”, 1968”, 26 min. Oct.2 Lecture “Twenty One Demands”, in Lyman H. Legters, Eastern Europe, Transformation and Revolution 1945-1991, Documents and Analyses. Heath and Company, Lexington, 1992, p.253-254. Milan Kundera, The Tragedy of Central Europe, 1984 http://www.euroculture.upol.cz/dokumenty/sylaby/Kundera_Tragedy_(18).pdf Oct.6 Oct.9 Mid Term exam Lecture : In class The Economic challenges Charles Gati, Chapter 4, “Economic Relations” The Block that failed, Soviet-East European Relations in Transition, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 1990, p.104-135. Lyman H. Legters, “Solidarity Program” Eastern Europe, Transformation and Revolution 1945-1991, Documents and Analyses. Heath and Company, Lexington, 1992, p.252-261. Charles Gati, Chapter 5, “Military relations The Block that failed, SovietEast European Relations in Transition, Indiana University Press, Bl-oomington, 1990, p.136-160. Oct.20 Lecture An experiment in Alchemy: Perestroika, Glasnost J.F. Brown, “ Gorbachev ‘s Policy Revolution”, Surge for Freedom, The End of Communist Rule in Eastern Europe, Duke University Press, London, 1991, p. 45-70. “Towards a Post- Soviet Politics?” in Stephen White, Alex Pravda and Zvi Course Title (Course Code) Page 4 of 7 Gitelman ( eds.), Developments in Soviet and Post – Soviet Politics, Macmillan, London, 1991, p. 2-14. Oct.23 Documentary Oct.27 Lecture My Perestroika 87 min. 2010 1989 - The Year of the Avalanche Graig Whitney, David Binder and Serge Shmemann, “The Opening of the Berlin Wall” in Gale Stokes From Stalinism to Pluralism, A Documentary History of Eastern Europe Since 1945, Oxford University Press, New York, 1991, p.255-259. “Arrested in Romania” in Lyman H. Legters, Eastern Europe, Transformation and Revolution 1945-1991, Documents and Analyses. Heath and Company, Lexington, p.462-467. Vaclav Havel, 1990 New Year’s Day Speech” in Gale Stokes From Stalinism to Pluralism, A Documentary History of Eastern Europe Since 1945, Oxford University Press, New York, 1991, p.260-264. . Oct.30 Guest spêaker His Excellency, Mr. Milan Kollar, Abassador of the Slovak Czech republic to Canada (to be confirmed) Nov.3 Lecture Nationalism in Eastern Europe The Balkans: Cultural “Faulty Lines” versus Accommodation? Milan Andrejevic, “The Yugoslav Crisis: No Solution in Sight” in Lyman H. Legters, Eastern Europe, Transformation and Revolution 1945-1991, Documents and Analyses, Heath and Company, Lexington, p. 566-578 Samuel P. Huntington, “The Clash of Civilizations?” in Ivaylo Grouev (ed.), International Organizations: Quo Vadis?, Pearson, 2010, p. 340-369. Nov.6 Lecture Maria Todorova, “From Discovery to Invention, From Invention to Classification” Imagining the Balkans, Oxford University Press, New York, 1997, p.116-139. Michael Mandelbaum, “A Perfect Failure: NATO's War Against Yugoslavia”, in Ivaylo Grouev (ed), International Organizations: Quo Vadis?, Pearson, 2010, p.307-316. James B. Steinberg, ‘A Perfect Polemic: Blind to Reality on Kosovo,’ Foreign Affairs, December 1999.. http://www.foreignaffairs.com/print/55612?page=2 Nov.10 Documentary Nationalism, Blood and Belonging,”The Road to Nowhere – Yugoslavia”, 50 min. Nov.13 Key note Speaker Major-General Lewis Wharton MacKenzie, (leading United Nations Protection Force UNPROFOR in Yugoslavia, to be confirmed) Course Title (Course Code) Page 5 of 7 Nov.17 Lecture The Politics of Transition - Whose revolution? Rachel Epstein, “Transnational and Actors and Bank Privatization”, in Mitchell Orenstein, Stephen Bloom and Nicole Lindstrom, (eds.), Transnational Actors in Central and East European Transitions, University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, 2008, p.98-117. David Ost, “Market Populism and the Turn to the Right”, The Defeat of Solidarity, Anger and Politics in Post Communist Europe, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 2005, p.60-93. Ray Taras, “Civil Society, Human Rights and the Shaping of Post Communist Europe’s Identity Politics.” In Rachel May and Andrew Milton (eds.), (Un)Civil Societies, Human Rights and Democratic Transitions in Eastern Europe and Latin America, Lexington Books, Oxford, 2005, p.31-49. Nov.20 Lecture From a velvet coup d`ètat to a velvet revolution - the case of Bulgaria`s transition Nov.24 Lecture The New Europe & EU Enlargement “The Case of the Eastern Frontier of the European Union”, in Malcolm Anderson and Eberhard Bort (eds.), The Frontiers of the European Union, Palgrave New York, 2001, p.149-199 John Hall and Wolfgang Quaisser, “Europe’s Eastern Enlargement Who Benefits?”, Current History, Vol. 100. # 649, p.389 – 411. Nov.27 Lecture From Transition to Hegemony Michael D. Kennedy, “From Transition to Hegemony, Extending The Cultural Politics of Military Alliances and Energy Security “in Mitchell Orenstein, Stephen Bloom and Nicole Lindstrom, (eds), Transnational Actors in Central and East European Transitions, University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, 2008, p.188-211. Dec.1 Revision for the final exam FRAUD Academic fraud is an act committed by a student to distort the marking of assignment, test and other forms of academic evaluation. 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