Week

Theme

Class Readings

1

Introduction to the course

PPT: Europe in 1870

2

New Imperialism – Britain, France, Japan & Resistance to Imperialism

Western Civilization, chapter 22

Jules Ferry, "Speech Before the French Chamber of Deputies” on Colonies (March 28, 1884)

http://legacy.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/1884ferry.asp

3

Industrialization and Labor as a Political Movement (movie: Charlie Chaplin, Hard Times (1936))

Western Civilization, chapter 23

4

Women’s Movement and Socialism at the Turn-of-the-Century

Western Civilization, chapter 23

Erfurt Program (1891)

http://legacy.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/1891erfurt.asp

5

The Origins of the Great War

Civilization, chapter 24

6

The Great War and German Defeat

Civilization, chapter 24, continued

7

Russian Revolution

Western Civilization, chapter 25

Lenin, “What is to be done?” (1902)

http://legacy.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/1902lenin.asp

The First Provisional Government, Izvestiia, 3 March 1917

http://community.dur.ac.uk/a.k.harrington/provgov1.html

8

Soviet Regime

Lenin, Letter to Dzerzhinskii, December 19, 1917

http://community.dur.ac.uk/a.k.harrington/cheka.html

9 April 27

Midterm

10

Fascism in Italy, Great Depression

Western Civilization, chapter 25

11

Rise of Hitler and Nazis; Spanish Civil War

Western Civilization, chapter 25

Program of the German National Socialist Worker’s Party (1920)

http://avalon.law.yale.edu/imt/nsdappro.asp

12

Origins and First Years of Second World War

Western Civilization, chapter 26

13

World War II continued and Holocaust

Western Civilization, chapter 26 continued

14

Cold War and De-Colonization

Western Civilization, chapter 27

United Nations: “Declaration on Granting Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples” (1960)

http://legacy.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/1960-un-colonialism.asp

Front de Liberation Nationale, “Proclamation to the Algerian people” (November 1, 1954)

https://www.marxists.org/history/algeria/1954/proclamation.htm

15

Europe’s Renaissance

Western Civilization, chapter 27

Britain – Labour Party “Let Us Face the Future” (1945)

http://history.hanover.edu/courses/excerpts/111lab.html

16

Contemporary World

Western Civilization, chapter 28

Nikita Khrushchev, “Secret Speech” (1956)

http://legacy.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/krushchev-secret.asp

Vaclav Havel "The Power of the Powerless" (1978)

http://history.hanover.edu/courses/excerpts/165havel.html

17 June 22

Final Examination