MO3425 Stalinism, Nazism and Central Europe (1912 - 1941)

Academic year

2024 to 2025 Semester 1

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Key module information

SCOTCAT credits

30

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SCQF level

SCQF level 9

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Planned timetable

TBC

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Module coordinator

Dr T D Kamusella

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Module Staff

Dr T Kamusella

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Module description

The decade-long conflagration (1912-23) replaced Centra Europe's empires with ethnolinguistic nation-states. Soon Central Europe's nation-states rejected the West's impositions and control and in this process ditched democracy for authoritarianism and expansionism in the name of this or that nationalism. Subsequently the region's polities chose among Soviet revolutionary totalitarianism (communism), Italy's fascism, and later Germany's nazi totalitarianism (national socialism). All three political models wanted to replace the old world with a new man of the future, and on the way toward this goal engaged in grand-scale socio-political engineering. At the onset of World War II Central Europe was split between the Soviet Union and the German Empire (aka the Third Reich). Hence, the region was effectively erased from the map of the continent until the turn of the twenty-first century, its fragments construed as belonging to Western and Eastern Europe.

Relationship to other modules

Pre-requisites

BEFORE TAKING THIS MODULE YOU MUST PASS AT LEAST 60 CREDITS FROM {MO1007, MO1008, MO2008, HI2001, MH2002}

Anti-requisites

YOU CANNOT TAKE THIS MODULE IF YOU TAKE MO3332

Assessment pattern

2-hour Written Examination = 40%, Coursework = 60%

Re-assessment

4,000-word essay = 100%

Learning and teaching methods and delivery

Weekly contact

1 x 2-hour seminar, plus 1 office hour.

Scheduled learning hours

20

The number of compulsory student:staff contact hours over the period of the module.

Guided independent study hours

280

The number of hours that students are expected to invest in independent study over the period of the module.