HIST 641A Modern Eastern Europe: Key Topics in the History of Eastern Europe
An introduction into new research and recent historiographic debates on the history of the European areas between Germany and Russia. What do we now know about nationalism in East and Eastern Central Europe? Why are the nation states of the region so homogeneous while the former empires (German, Habsburg, Romanov, Ottoman) were so mixed? Which role did political concepts and ideologies (nationalism, liberalism, socialism, communism) play in the region? The course will also discuss the history of religion and gender and the complexities of modernity in Eastern Europe.