HIST 263L - Eastern Europe and Russia from 1928 to the Present

3 Credit(s)

Liberal Arts
A study of the Soviet Union and its Eastern European satellites from the emergence of Stalin to the present. The course highlights Krushchev’s period of the “Thaw,” Brezhnev’s return to “Stalinism,” Gorbachev’s liberal reforms, the collapse of Communism in Russia, and the reunification of the two Germanies. The course will extensively cover the return of liberty and the building of democracy in the former republics of the Soviet Union and its satellites, such as Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, and others.