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The course examines the causes, development, spread, and defeat of the Great French Revolution. The course will first familiarize the students with the politics of the Old Regime and Enlightenment political philosophy. They will also explore the development of constitutional monarchy, political and economic Liberalism, a democratic republic, and authoritarian government. The course will especially focus upon the relationship between social and political conflict and between foreign and domestic policy. Students will become familiar with Romantic Nationalist, Marxist, Social, Revisionist, and more recent interpretations of the Revolution. 3 semester hours
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The course examines the memory and commemoration of the two world wars, with an emphasis on European memories. Students will study the political, social, and cultural construction of both personal and national memories during and after the wars. We will read about and discuss the fierce debates regarding major political decisions, personal initiatives, the experience of war, and issues of personal and national guilt and responsibility for war crimes. 3 semester hours
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A close study of the emergence of the modern English state under the Tudors and of the struggle between monarch and subject for the control of the machinery of government during the time of the Stuarts. 3 semester hours
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The course focuses on the history of France between the French Revolution and World War I, with a special emphasis on its political, social, intellectual, and cultural history. The purpose of the course is to explore French modernization. 3 semester hours
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The development of modern Germany with particular emphasis on the era of National Socialism, the democratic experiments after the Second World War, and the process of German reunification. 3 semester hours
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An investigation of the origins and consequences of the Nazi regime, with particular attention to the planning and implementation of the Final Solution and the destruction of Europe’s Jews. 3 semester hours
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The political, economic, and social history of Russia from the reign of Peter the Great to the end of the 19th century. Among the topics examined are Russia's territorial expansion, the growth of industrialization, the transformation of the nobility and the peasantry, and the emergence of the revolutionary movement. 3 semester hours
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A survey of Russia from the reign of the last tsar, Nicholas II, to the present. Special attention is given to the political revolutions of 1905, 1917, and 1990-91 in the context of the economic and social modernization of a multinational state. Topics to be considered include the transformation of the peasantry, the expansion of industrialization, and the emergence of a civil society. 3 semester hours
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This course provides students with a better understanding of Josef Stalin's dictatorship (1929-1953), a period of unparalleledterror and mass repression in the USSR. It will examine Stalin's personality and policies; the apparatus of terror and repression he employed to gain and maintain power; and the social, economic, political, and cultural consequences of Stalinism for its victims and for the future development of the USSR/Russia. 3 semester hours
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An examination of European diplomacy in the last quarter of the 19th century and first half of the 20th century, with special attention to the origins and consequences of World War I and World War II. This course focuses on Great Power diplomacy to examine in detail how the development of imperialism, nationalism, and militarism shaped international relations and eventually led the Great Powers into two cataclysmic and catastrophic conflicts. In this examination, attention is given not only to the role of governments, but also to the role of individual diplomats and public opinion in shaping Great Power policy and diplomatic strategies. 3 semester hours
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