2018-2019 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
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2018-2019 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

HST 372 - History of Eastern Europe


The course examines the history of Eastern Europe in modern times (from the Ottoman conquest to the fall of the Soviet bloc). The course will concentrate on the political and socioeconomic factors which led to the rise of nationalism, fascism, communism in Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Poland, Hungary, Albania, and Czechoslovakia, as well as the unique situation of Yugoslavia. The role of the region in WWI and WWII, the postwar era, the cold war, Warsaw Pact, and its struggle to adopt new democratic principles will also be discussed.
Lecture
3 Credits
Offered in Alternate Years