History Department      

History 309 – CONTEMPORARY EUROPE – October 26, 2005  

RE-BUILDING EUROPE: EAST (1945-1949)  

TERMS TO KNOW:  

  1. Differences between 1919 & 1945
  2. “Total War”
  3. Uprooting of people
  4. Military occupation
  5. “The Central Paradox” of East Central Europe, 1945-9 (346)
  6. Six nations of East Central Europe
  7. Rural overpopulation
  8. “homegrown fascism”
  9. The “two revolutions” in East Central Europe
  10. Andrei Zhdanov
  11. Czech coup of February 1948
  12. Three stages of suppression of opposition
  13. Cardinal Mindszenty
  14. Cardinal Wyszynski
  15. Josef Broz (“Tito”)
  16. 2nd Revolution in USSR

 

From Perry:  

  1. Gedye, “Witness to the Czech coup”
  2. Leonard, “Communist Takeover of East Germany”
  3. Medvedev, “Stalin’s Last Years”
  4. Dubcek Commission, “The Czechoslovak Political Trials”
  5. Mindszenty, “Memoirs”

 

QUESTIONS:  

  1. “Macro-History” – consider the “big picture.”  How would you describe what happens in East Central Europe in 1945-49?
  2. “Micro-History” – take ONE of the articles you read from Perry, and read it closely.  What does IT tell you about events in East Central Europe?

 

 

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