Week
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Topic
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Content and reading
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1 – February 20
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Introduction to the course; European Absolutism and Liberal Alternatives
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Cole and Symes, Western Civilization (chapter 15)
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2 – February 27
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Scientific Revolution
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Cole and Symes, Western Civilization (chapter 16)
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3 – March 5
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Enlightenment
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Cole and Symes, Western Civilization (chapter 17)
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4 – March 12
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French Revolution
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Cole and Symes, Western Civilization (chapter 18)
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5 – March 19
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Industrial Revolution
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Cole and Symes, Western Civilization (chapter 19)
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6 – March 26
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Age of Ideologies
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Cole and Symes, Western Civilization (chapter 20)
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7 – April 2
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Holiday
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8 – April 9
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Revolutions of 1848 and Nation Building
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Cole and Symes, Western Civilization (chapter 21)
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9 – April 16
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Midterm examination
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10 – April 23
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New Imperialism
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Cole and Symes, Western Civilization (chapter 22)
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Jules Ferry, "Speech Before the French Chamber of Deputies” on Colonies (March 28, 1884)
http://legacy.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/1884ferry.asp
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11 – April 30
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Great War
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Cole and Symes, Western Civilization (chapter 24)
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12 – May 7
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Guest lecturer: Laurence van Ypersele – Professor of Contemporary History at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium
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Readings on World War I: To be announced (will be uploaded to e-learning)
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13 – May 14
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Russian Revolution
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Cole and Symes, Western Civilization (chapter 24)
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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
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Lenin, Letter to Dzerzhinskii, December 19, 1917
http://community.dur.ac.uk/a.k.harrington/cheka.html
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14 – May 21
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Rise of Fascism and Hitler
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Cole and Symes, Western Civilization (chapter 25)
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Program of the German National Socialist Worker’s Party (1920)
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/imt/nsdappro.asp
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15 – May 28
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World War II and Holocaust
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Cole and Symes, Western Civilization (chapter 26)
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16 – June 4
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Cold War, Decolonization, Europe’ s Renaissance
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Cole and Symes, Western Civilization (chapter 27)
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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
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17 – June 11
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Collapse of Western Communism to
Contemporary World
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Cole and Symes, Western Civilization (chapter 28)
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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
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18 – June 18
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Final Examination
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