Course: Political Change and Ideological Challenge in inter-war Europe
Course convenor: Prof. Paul Corner
Department of Social, Political and Cognitive Sciences (DISPOC)
☎ +39.0577.235.301
@ paul.corner[at]unisi.it
Lesson Hours: --- (Room ---)
Office Hours: Wednesday 13-14
The course is offered in mainstreaming with the Programme Euromaster
Department of Social, Political and Cognitive Sciences (DISPOC)
☎ +39.0577.235.301
@ paul.corner[at]unisi.it
Lesson Hours: --- (Room ---)
Office Hours: Wednesday 13-14
The course is offered in mainstreaming with the Programme Euromaster
COURSE DESCRIPTION
The course examines the politics of the European arena in the period 1914-1945 with particular attention to the ways in which the radical changes provoked by the First World War in the European order and in European societies were reflected in greatly differing political responses. The course seeks to understand and explain the pressures generating the different types of totalitarian regime and to compare the solutions offered by these regimes to the challenges of mass society – a comparison which will be made both between the competing totalitarianisms and with the more traditional democracies. Objective of the course is the analysis of those Europe-wide currents of thought and opinion which conditioned the relationship between all European states in the period between the two world wars – an analysis which will then be related briefly to developments post-1945, in multiple ways reactions to the politics of the inter-war period.
COURSE ORGANIZATION
The course will be taught over 20 hours, twice-weekly in 10 two-hour sessions. The sessions will be organised in seminar form, with brief thematic lectures followed by discussion of the prescribed readings for each session. Two sessions will be dedicated to each of the following themes:
SCHEDULE
1. Apocalypse and palingenesis
2 and 3. Mass society and mass politics
4. Third ways: the corporative thrust
5. Models of consumption; models of consensus
6. Radicalisation: empires and the imperial mode
READINGS
E. Hobsbawm, The Age of Extremes: the Short Twentieth Century (London, Michael Joseph 1994)
M. Mazower, Dark Continent. Europe's Twentieth Century (London, Penguin Books, 1998)
E. Gentile, The Sacralization of Politics in Fascist Italy (Cambridge, Mass., 1996)
E. Gentile, The Struggle for Modernity. Nationalism, Futurism, and Fascism (Praeger, Connecticut 2003)
P. Corner (ed.), Popular Opinion in Totalitarian Regimes. Fascism, Nazism, Communism (Oxford, Oxford University Press 2009)
S. Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust (Ithaca, Cornell 1989)
I. Kershaw, The Hitler Myth (Oxford, Oxford University Press 1988)
S. Fitzpatrick, Everyday Stalinism. Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times (Oxford, Oxford University Press 1999)
S. Fitzpatrick (ed.), Stalinism. New Directions (London, Routledge 2000)
D. Ellwood, The Shock of America (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2012)
V. De Grazia, Irrestistible Empire (Cambrisge, Mass., Belknap 2005)
T. Judt, Postwar (London, Heinemann 2005)
The course examines the politics of the European arena in the period 1914-1945 with particular attention to the ways in which the radical changes provoked by the First World War in the European order and in European societies were reflected in greatly differing political responses. The course seeks to understand and explain the pressures generating the different types of totalitarian regime and to compare the solutions offered by these regimes to the challenges of mass society – a comparison which will be made both between the competing totalitarianisms and with the more traditional democracies. Objective of the course is the analysis of those Europe-wide currents of thought and opinion which conditioned the relationship between all European states in the period between the two world wars – an analysis which will then be related briefly to developments post-1945, in multiple ways reactions to the politics of the inter-war period.
COURSE ORGANIZATION
The course will be taught over 20 hours, twice-weekly in 10 two-hour sessions. The sessions will be organised in seminar form, with brief thematic lectures followed by discussion of the prescribed readings for each session. Two sessions will be dedicated to each of the following themes:
SCHEDULE
1. Apocalypse and palingenesis
2 and 3. Mass society and mass politics
4. Third ways: the corporative thrust
5. Models of consumption; models of consensus
6. Radicalisation: empires and the imperial mode
READINGS
E. Hobsbawm, The Age of Extremes: the Short Twentieth Century (London, Michael Joseph 1994)
M. Mazower, Dark Continent. Europe's Twentieth Century (London, Penguin Books, 1998)
E. Gentile, The Sacralization of Politics in Fascist Italy (Cambridge, Mass., 1996)
E. Gentile, The Struggle for Modernity. Nationalism, Futurism, and Fascism (Praeger, Connecticut 2003)
P. Corner (ed.), Popular Opinion in Totalitarian Regimes. Fascism, Nazism, Communism (Oxford, Oxford University Press 2009)
S. Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust (Ithaca, Cornell 1989)
I. Kershaw, The Hitler Myth (Oxford, Oxford University Press 1988)
S. Fitzpatrick, Everyday Stalinism. Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times (Oxford, Oxford University Press 1999)
S. Fitzpatrick (ed.), Stalinism. New Directions (London, Routledge 2000)
D. Ellwood, The Shock of America (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2012)
V. De Grazia, Irrestistible Empire (Cambrisge, Mass., Belknap 2005)
T. Judt, Postwar (London, Heinemann 2005)
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