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Fall 2007. PAGE HERRLINGER. Examines major transformations in Russian society, culture, and politics from the fall of Imperial Russia through the fall of the Soviet Empire in 1991. Topics are explored through novels, film, diaries, memoirs, and other primary sources and include the rise of the revolutionary movement and the Revolutions of 1905 and 1917, the building of socialism under the Bolsheviks, the rise and demise of the "Soviet system" from Stalin to Brezhnev,Soviet influence in Eastern Europe, the period of "glasnost" and "perestroika" undGorbachev, and the problems of de-Sovietization in the early 1990s. First-year students admitted with permission of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Players and Spectators:History,Culture,and Sports
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3.00 Credits
History of England,1485-1688
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3.00 Credits
Fall 2006. SUSAN TANANBAUM. Seminar. Explores topics and debates in European family history from the early modern period to the present. Considers the impact of social, political, religious, and economic forces on family structures and functions. Students have an opportunity to complete individual research projects. (Same as Gender and Women's Studies 230.)
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3.00 Credits
Fall 2006. SUSAN L. TANANBAUM. A social history of modern Britain from the rise of urban industrial society in the early nineteenth century to the present. Topics include the impact of the industrial revolution, acculturation of the working classes, the impact of liberalism, the reform movement, and Victorian society. Concludes with an analysis of the domestic impact of the world wars and of contemporary society.
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3.00 Credits
The Modern Middle East:The Arab-Israeli Conflict
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3.00 Credits
Spring 2007. DAVID HECHT. Focuses on twentieth-century science, technology, and medicine. Examines the challenges and changing meanings of "progress" in United States history, using as touchstones a numberof seminal events in the history of the interaction between science and society. Topics include the atomic bomb; eugenics; environmentalism; industrial growth; changing public health concerns; and ongoing debates over evolution, science, and religion. Few of the many changes that science has wrought have been embraced unequivocally - uses this sometimes chaotic mix of acceptance and suspicion of scientific advance to explore how Americans felt about their rapidly modernizing society. (Same as Environmental Studies 224.)
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3.00 Credits
Fall 2006. MATTHEW KLINGLE.
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3.00 Credits
City and Landscape in Modern Europe:London,Paris,Vienna,Berlin
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3.00 Credits
Fall 2006. JILL MASSINO. Explores women's and men's lives under socialism by focusing on the Soviet Union andEastern Europe. Begins by analyzing early writings on socialism and the "woman question,"moving on to examine the Bolshevik revolution in Russia and its effects upon women, the family, and gender relations. Proceeds to explore women's and men's lives under socialismby focusing on a number of communist countries in Eastern Europe. Examines how the socialist state reformulated gender roles, notions of civic identity, social relations, and women's position within the family. Also examines how women and men responded to and resisted communist policies and ideologies on an everyday level. Closes by examining how women and gender relations have been affected by the transition to democracy and, in the case of the former Yugoslavia, by war, and considers the gendered dimensions of communist nostalgia. (Same as Gender and Women's Studies 254.)
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