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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course is an exploration of European thought and culture from the intellectual and artistic response to Nazism in the 1930s to the postmodernism of the present. Topics include: art and political commitment before and after World War II; existentialism in France; the intellectual responses to the Cold War, such as the theory of totalitarianism; the "Critical Theory" of the Frankfurt School and the rise of Marxist humanism; the student movements of 1968; the critique of technological society; structuralism and poststructuralism; contemporary feminist theory; and postmodernism.
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3.00 Credits
A study of Jewish culture, society, and politics in Poland-Lithuania, Hungary, the Czech lands, Russia, Romania, and the Ukraine, from the 16th century through the 20th century. Among the topics covered are: economic, social, and political relations in Poland-Lithuania; varieties of Jewish religious culture; Russian and Habsburg imperial policies toward the Jews; nationality struggles and anti-Semitism; Jewish national and revolutionary responses; Jewish experience in war and revolution; the mass destruction of East European Jewish life; and the transition from Cold War to democratic revolution.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines both the old social history (which focused on social classes and "the social question") and the newer social history of the Annales School (which stresses the social conditions of everyday life). Most of the semester is spent surveying selected topics of the new social history, such as demography, marriage and the family, sexuality and reproduction, diet and cuisine, drink and drugs, disease and public health, and topics in material culture such as housing.
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3.00 Credits
Despite the static obsolescence implied by the term, the Old Regime was a dynamic period during which European men and women gradually but fundamentally altered how they related to power, to knowledge, and to each other. This course explores the major sociopolitical and intellectual developments of the period through primary sources and historical literature. Our main geographical focus is France, with occasional forays into the Dutch, British, and German cases. Our main cultural focus is on the Enlightenment, with an eye to the diversity of ideas and beliefs that were advocated both for and against it.
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3.00 Credits
This seminar-style discussion and research course examines major currents in Russian intellectual life from the age of Peter the Great to the revolutions of 1905. Its primary focus is on Russians' perception of themselves as a part of Western Civilization. Authors include: the Ukrainian humanists; the so-called Russian Enlightenment; romantic nationalists; Slavophiles and Westernizers; the literature of the Golden Age; nihilists; and the early Marxists. Students enrolling in the course should attempt to acquire a copy of (out of print) Marc Raeff, ed., "Russian Intellectual History: an Anthology."
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3.00 Credits
Same as AFAS 448
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3.00 Credits
Medieval Russian history is in turmoil: Ukrainians charge the Russians with stealing their history; new perspectives from world history have fundamentally altered our understanding of the Viking age, and of Russia's infamous Tatar Yoke; Ivan the Terrible has lost his demonic appearance, and the hapless Romanovs before Peter the Great are now praised as the most successful of all early-modern monarchs. Topics include: Kievan politics, society and religion; the Mongol world; the rise of Moscow; consolidation and empire; religious crisis; and the dramatic first contacts with the West.
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3.00 Credits
The Russian tsars, from Peter the Great to Nicholas II, built the empire that became the Soviet Union. Now that the U.S.S.R. is gone, historians focus not only on the governance of the Russians, but also on the fate of scores of nationalities ruled by them. This course also explores the changing reputation of Russia's rulers, especially the women rulers of the 18th century; the rise of an intelligentsia committed to radical reform; the fate of millions of serfs, and the government's efforts to steer a path between Muscovite traditions and a dynamic West.
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3.00 Credits
Same as Biol 450W
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3.00 Credits
Same as Hum 450
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