History
Course title: Historical Biography of Adolf
Hitler
Code:
(A XX. századi egyetemes történelem vitás NBB_TR242G2
kérdései)
Credits: 2
Type (lecture/seminar/practice/consultation) and number of contact hours: seminar/2
Evaluation method (end-term exam mark/ term mark / other): term mark
Suggested semester: fall
Frequency of availability:
Language: English
Prerequisites (if any): Description
Aims: The course is envisaged as a specific analysis of the social, historical, political and
ideological background of the national socialist totalitarian state. Employing the framework of these
subsets, the course will focus on three points. First, major historical developments and concepts that
took place in the twentieth century Germany will be identified and analysed. Second, the sources and
origins of Nazism will be discovered during the course, so as to lead us to a better understanding on
the rise of Nazi dictatorship. Third, the NSDAP program and implementation will be reviewed in the
context of the multi-party system of the Weimar Republic. This will touch upon many aspects of the
history of national-socialism, starting with the consequences of the First World War, the role of racial
and anti-Semite ideologies, of Adolf Hitler and the ‘Führer-prinzip’, of the Nazi political, social and
economic
Competences to develop: Communication, debate techniques, group work, data analysis
and critical thinking.
Course content and schedule:
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The Heritage of the 19th Century: Ideologies, ‘Nation-building’ and the German Reich
Historical Biography of Adolf Hitler I.
Historical Biography of Adolf Hitler II.: Race Theories
Historical Biography of Adolf Hitler III.: Anti-Semitism
Historical Biography of Adolf Hitler IV.: The Austrian ‘völkisch’ Movement
The German Ariosophia and Nazism as a Theory: Alfred Rosenberg
Symbols of Nazism: ‘swastikas’, Runes and Eagles in the Service of Nazism
The Foundation of the Nazi Party: Road to the Transition (1919-1933)
Nazi Organizations: the SA, the SS and the Hitlerjugend
The Implementation of the Nazi Program (1933-1939)
Education management:
The course will provide an overview of the basic concepts, procedures, and applications of
historical thinking and teaching.
Assessment:
This class will be both lecture and discussion-based. Therefore, students are expected to
come to class regularly, arrive on time, and be active participants in discussions. Those who
complete the assessment tasks (e.g. presentation, reading) are allowed to go to the final
written test. Class attention and participation will also count for the overall grade.
Compulsory reading:
1. Gilbert, Felix – Large, David Clay: The End of the European Era. 1890 to the Present,
Norton Publications, 2002.
2. Kissinger, Henry: Diplomacy, Simon & Schuster, 1995.
History
3. Macmillan, Margaret: Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World, Random House
Trademarks, 2003.
4. Shirer, William L.: Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Simon & Schuster, 1990.
5. Kershaw, Ian: Hitler: A Biography, W. W. Norton (New Ed.), 2008.
Optional reading:Supporting (compulsory/optional) digital materials:Person in charge of program: Dr. Sándor Gebei, professor
Person in charge of the course: Dr. habil. László Kiss, professor
Instructor: Dr. Gergely Guszmann, associate professor
Instructor’s office hours: By appointment, Building ‘A’, Room: 322
Preferred contact details: [email protected]
Online communication method: -
History
Course title: Stalin’s Cult of Personality
Code:
NBB_TR241G2
Credits: 2
Type (lecture/seminar/practice/consultation) and number of contact hours: seminar/2
Evaluation method (end-term exam mark/ term mark / other): term mark
Suggested semester: fall
Frequency of availability: Language: English
Prerequisites (if any): Description
Aims: The subject offers a survey of both the Stalinist regime in the Soviet Union. Within the
framework of the course students will able to get acquainted not even a general knowledge about
Stalinism but a vertical analysis of the communist totalitarian state and the effects of cult of
personality to the society. This will go through at least two levels: the level of politics, regarding
various forms of concrete social, political and economic orders of the authority; the level of
symbolism, considering the mindset of the politicized, de-sacralised and terrorized people of the
Stalinist regime. This will be put in comparative perspective, so as to be able to deal with the
different aspects of Stalinism in the soviet-oriented region.
Competences to develop: Communication, debate techniques, group work, data analysis
and critical thinking.
Course content and schedule:
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Political Ideologies of the 19th Century: Socialism and Marxism
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Revolutions and the End of the First World War: Political and Social Changes
3.
The Stabilization of Communism in Russia: Lenin’s New Economic Policy
4.
The Political Biography of Joseph Stalin
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Stalinism and the Purge Trials: 1922-1939
6.
Everyday Life in the Stalinist Era
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Stalin’s Cult of Personality
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Deportations: the Gulags
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Russia’s Role in the Second World War: Stalin’s Foreign Policy
10.
The Post-War Period: the Beginning of the Cold War (1945-1953)
Education management:
The course will provide an overview of the basic concepts, procedures, and applications of
historical thinking and teaching.
Assessment:
This class will be both lecture and discussion-based. Therefore, students are expected to
come to class regularly, arrive on time, and be active participants in discussions. Those who
complete the assessment tasks (e.g. presentation, reading) are allowed to go to the final
written test. Class attention and participation will also count for the overall grade.
Compulsory reading:
1. Gilbert, Felix – Large, David Clay: The End of the European Era. 1890 to the
Present, Norton Publications, 2002.
2. Karl Schlögel: Moscow 1937, Polity, 2012.
3. Stephen Kotkin: Stalin: Volume I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928, Penguin Press
History
HC, 2014.
4. Bullock, Allen: Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives, Vintage Books, 1993.
5. Marrin, Albert: Stalin: Russia’s Man of Steel, Beautiful Feet Books, 2002.
6. Service, Robert: Stalin: A Biography, Belknap Press, 2006.
Optional reading: Supporting (compulsory/optional) digital materials: Person in charge of program: Dr. Sándor Gebei, professor
Person in charge of the course: Dr. habil. László Kiss, professor
Instructor: Dr. Gergely Guszmann, associate professor
Instructor’s office hours: By appointment, Building ‘A’, Room: 322
Preferred contact details: [email protected]
Online communication method: -