Modiwl HGH-2138:
Europe 1945-1992
Europe 1945-1992 2024-25
HGH-2138
2024-25
School Of History, Law And Social Sciences
20 credits
Module Organiser:
Marc Collinson
Overview
The following is an indicative list of the topics that this module will cover:
- The political geography of Europe;
- Late Stalinism and de-Stalinisation;
- Post-fascist liberal democracies:
- West Germany and Italy;
- Gaullism from the 1940s to the 1960s;
- Europeanisation from above and below;
- Communist regimes in Eastern Europe;
- Dictatorship in Southern Europe: Franco's Spain and the Greek Junta (1967-1974);
- Post-authoritarian transformations in Southern Europe since the mid-1970s;
- ‘1968’ – a turning-point in post-war history?;
- Protest in the 1970s: Feminism; Gorbachev, reform of the Soviet Union, and the collapse of communism.