Professor O. Andriewsky
Champlain College K-4
748-1493
Office Hours: Tuesday 10-11 a.m. 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
E-mail: oandriewsky@trentu.ca

Secretary: Shirley Pavy
Champlain I-13
748-1331
Wednesdays: 11 a.m.-12 p.m. & by appt.
E-mail: spavey@trentu.ca

Professor A. Heitlinger Web Page:
Champlain College J-15 www.trentu.ca/academic/history/hiso223
748-1616
Office Hours: Monday 9-10 a.m.
Thursdays 4:30-5:30 p.m. & by appt.
E-mail: aheitlinger@trentu.ca

This course will explore the history of Eastern Europe from 1848 to the present, with special focus on the "small nations" and minorities of East Central Europe: the Czechs, Poles, Jews and Ukrainians. Particular attention will be devoted to modernization and nation-building, the social aspects of integration and disintegration, the main features of the Communist system, and the problems of post-Communist cultural and economic reconstruction. Students will be encouraged to read and think critically and to construct and defend their own arguments.

The course consists of two classes per week. Lectures will be supplemented with workshops, films, and guest lectures. A detailed schedule is listed below. Please note: workshop attendance makes up 20% of the final grade. Students who miss a workshop must submit a seven-page summary of the Workshop readings within two weeks after the missed session. Failure to complete any make-up work will result in a "0" for this portion of the grade (20%). Since lectures and reading assignments are designed to complement—not duplicate—each other, reading, preparation, and attendance at lecture are essential to the successful completion of HISO 223.

Map Quiz 5%
First Hour Exam 10%
Second Hour Exam 10%
Third Hour Exam 10%
First Essay 10%
Second Essay 10%
Workshop Participation 20%
Final Exam 25%

Plagiarism is considered an extremely serious academic offense and carries penalties varying from failure in an assignment to debarment from the University. All HISO 223 students are expected to familiarize themselves with the definition of plagiarism as established in Trent University's Policy on Plagiarism before submitting any written work. The policy statement is available on request from every department or college office or from the Registrar's office.

Please note: Students are required to keep all research notes for their essays and may be required to hand them in. Failure to do so can result in an F on the essay. Students submitting written work that is copied or bought from another source and then presented as original work will fail the course.

All readings will be on reserve at Bata Library. The following textbooks can also be purchased in the bookstore:

Oct. 19    1848

Nov. 2 Exam

Dec. 2 Guest Lecture: Mshanets’: The Story of A Ukrainian Village

Feb. 17 No Class

March 30 Second Essay Due In Class

Sept. 14-16 Timothy Garton Ash, "The Puzzle of Central Europe," pp. 18-22 (Reprotext); Paul Robert Magocsi, Historical Atlas of East Central Europe, pp. 2-4, 97-99 (in the Reference Division of Bata Library); Norman Davies, "A Historic Nation", pp. 279-311 (Reprotext); Magocsi, pp. 59-62, 70-72

Sept. 21-23 Robert Bideleux and Ian Jeffries "The Kingdom of Bohemia and the Hussite heritage", pp. 212-261 (Reprotext); Magocsi, "Bohemia-Moravia, 13^th-15^th centuries," pp. 20-22, 48-50; Lucy S. Dawidowicz, "The World of East European Jewry", pp. 6-38 (Reprotext); Magocsi, pp. 107-110

Sept. 28-30 R. Szporluk, Ukraine: A Brief History, pp. 1-41 (Reprotext)

Oct. 5-7 Workshop: Map Quiz + What is a "Nation"?

Joseph Stalin, "The Nation," pp. 18-21(Reprotext); Walker Connor, "A Nation is a Nation, is a State, is an Ethnic Group, is a…", pp. 36-46 (Reprotext)

Oct. 12-14 Magocsi, pp. 76-82; Robert Bideleux and Ian Jeffries, "An Empire in Crisis: East Central Europe and the Revolutions of 1848-49"pp. 294-325 (Reprotext); "Letter Sent by František Palacky to Frankfurt"; "Manifesto of the First Slavic Congress", pp. 303-313 (Reprotext)

Oct. 19-21 Workshop: Recapturing The Jewish Experience

Eva Hoffman, Shtetl, pp. 1-158

Oct. 26-28 Reading Week

Nov. 2-4 No Reading

Nov. 9-11 Workshop: From Serfdom to Self-Government

Jan Slomka, From Serfdom to Self-Government: Memoirs of a Polish Village Mayor 1842-1927, pp. 1-272 (Reprotext); Magocsi, pp 100-103

Nov. 11 First Essay Due In Class

Nov. 16-18 Mykhailo Drahomanov, "The Program of the Review Hromada," pp. 206-208 (Reprotext); Chaim Weizmann, "My Early Days," pp. 375-83 (Reprotext); Thomas Masaryk, "Nation," pp. 200-214, (Reprotext); Roman Dmowski, Thoughts of a Modern Pole (Reprotext)

Nov. 23 Katherine David, "Czech Feminists and Nationalism in the Late Habsburg Monarchy: ‘The First in Austria’," pp. 26-45 (Reprotext)

Nov. 25 Workshop: Nationalism and Socialism

Nicholas Stargardt, "Origins of the Constructivist Theory of the Nation," pp. 83-105 (Reprotext); Horace B. Davis, "East European Marxism and the Multi-National State," pp.133-65 (Reprotext)

Dec. 7 Exam

Jan. 11-13 Workshop: 1919: Redrawing the Map of Eastern Europe

Magocsi, pp. 121-133

Jan. 18-20 Miron Dolot, Execution By Hunger (entire)

Jan. 25-27 Workshop: Between Fascism and Communism

R.J. Crampton, "Fascism," 159-176 (Reprotext); Czeslaw Milosz, Native Realm, pp. 1-202; Eva Hoffman, Shtetl, pp. 159-200;

Feb. 1-3 Magocsi, pp. 152-159, 164-168

Feb. 8-10 Workshop: Ethnic Cleansing

"The German Occupation of Poland" pp. 922-935, 982-996, 1059-67, 1086-1101 (Reprotext); War Through Children’s Eyes, pp. 3-27, 56-58, 67-69, 152-54, 224-229 (Reprotext); Eva Hoffman, Shtetl, pp. 201-240 (Reprotext); Czeslaw Milosz, Native Realm, pp. 203-284

Feb. 15 No Reading

Feb. 23 Reading Week

Feb. 29- Magocsi, pp. 169-172; K. Verdery, "What Was Socialism and Why did it Fall?" pp. 19-38 (Reprotext);

March 2

March 7-9 "The Helsinki Accords"; "Charter 77", pp. 160-166 (Reprotext); Crampton, Eastern Europe In The Twentieth Century, pp. 359-376, 391-392 (On Reserve in the Library); "Solidarity’s Program", pp. 209-213 (Reprotext); Ladislav Holy, The Little And The Great Czech Nation, pp. 16-54

March 14-16 Workshop: The Power of the Powerless

Valentyn Moroz, "Report from the Beria Reserve: In the Reservation", pp. xv-xxiii, 48-60 (Reprotext); (Reprotext); Václav Havel, "The Power of the Powerless", pp. 168—174 (Reprotext); Adam Michnik, "Letter from Gdansk Prison" pp. 225-228 (Reprotext); Slavenka Drakulic, How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed

March 21-23 Magocsi, pp. 173-176; Catherine Wanner, Burden Of Dreams, "Festivals", Pp. 121-140 (On Reserve in the Library)

March 30 Second Essay Due In Class