MA Reading List: EAST EUROPEAN TRACK

(Central European emphasis)

Required:

Rogers Brubaker, Nationalism Reframed: Nationhood and the National Question in the New Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Daniel Chirot, ed. The Origins of Backwardness in Eastern Europe: Economics and Politics from the Middle Ages until the Early Twentieth Century. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989.

Roman Frydman, Kenneth Murphy, and Andrzej Rapaczynski, Capitalism with a Comrade's Face: Studies in the Postcommunist Transition. Budapest: Central European University, 1998.

Andrew C. Janos, East Central Europe in the Modern World: The Politics of the Borderlands from Pre- to Postcommunism. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000.

Roger Manser, Failed Transitions: The Eastern European Economy and Environment since the Fall of Communism. New York: New Press, 1993.

Robin Okey, The Habsburg Monarchy from Enlightenment to Eclipse. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000.

Tina Rosenberg, The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts after Communism. New York: Random House, 1995.

Gale Stokes, The Walls Came Tumbling Down: The Collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993.

Peter F. Sugar and Ivo J. Lederer, eds. Nationalism in Eastern Europe. Reprint edition: Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1984.

Jeno Szucs, The Three Historical Regions of Europe: An Outline, Acta Historica Academiae Scientiarium Hungaricae 29 (1983): 131-84.

Andrzej Walicki, Philosophy and Romantic Nationalism: The Case of Poland. South Bend, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1994.

Janine Wedel, Collision and Collusion: The Strange Case of Western Aid to Eastern Europe, 1989-1998. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2001.

-required for FAOs- [Return to top]

Andrew A. Michta, ed. America's New Allies: Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic in NATO. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999.

Primary Texts: [Return to top]

Gyorgy Konrad, Antipolitics.
Vaclav Havel, Open Letters.
Lenin, State and Revolution.
Marx and Engels, The Communist Manifesto.
Adam Mickiewicz, Pan Tadeusz.
Czeslaw Milosz, Native Realm.

Recommended

History [Return to top]

Timothy Garton Ash, The Uses of Adversity: Essays on the Fate of Central Europe. New York: Random House, 1989.

Lonnie R. Johnson, Central Europe: Enemies, Neighbors, Friends. 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Padraic Kenney, A Carnival of Revolution: Central Europe 1989. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002.

Norman M. Naimark, Fires of Hatred: Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth-Century Europe. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001.

Norman Naimark and Leonid Gibianskii, eds. The Establishment of Communist Regimes in Eastern Europe, 1944-1949. Boulder: Westview Press, 1997.

David Ost, Solidarity and the Politics of Anti-Politics: Opposition and Reform in Poland since 1968. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990.

Brian Porter, When Nationalism Began to Hate: Imagining Modern Politics in Nineteenth-Century Poland. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Joseph Rothschild, East Central Europe Between the Two World Wars. Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1974.

Joseph Rothschild and Nancy M. Wingfield, Return to Diversity: A Political History of East Central Europe since World War II, 3rd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Derek Sayer, The Coasts of Bohemia: A Czech History. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998.

Philipp Ther and Ana Siljak, eds. Redrawing Nations: Ethnic Cleansing In East-Central Europe, 1944-1948. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001.

Piotr Wandycz, The Lands of Partitioned Poland, 1795-1918. Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1974.

Larry Wolff, Inventing Eastern Europe: The Map of Civilization on the Mind of the Enlightenment. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994.

Politics and Society [Return to top]

Anna Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming the Communist Past: The Regeneration of Communist Parties in East Central Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Jiri Musil, ed. The End of Czechoslovakia. Budapest: Central European University, 1995.

Jadwiga Staniszkis, The Dynamics of the Breakthrough in Eastern Europe: The Polish Experience. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.

David Stark and Laszlo Bruszt. Postsocialist Pathways: Transforming Politics and Property in East Central Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Vladimir Tismaneanu and Sorin Antohi, eds. Between Past and Future: The Revolutions of 1989 and Their Aftermath. Budapest: Central European University Press, 2000.

Aleks Szczerbiak, Poles Together: The Emergence and Development of Political Parties in Post-Communist Poland. Budapest: Central European University Press, 2001.

Literature, Culture, and the Arts [Return to top]

Thomas Dacosta Kaufman, Court, Cloister, and City: The Art and Culture of Central Europe, 1450-1800. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.

Peter Hanak, The Garden and the Workshop: Essays on the Cultural History of Vienna and Budapest. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998.

Steven A. Mansbach, Modern Art in Eastern Europe: From the Baltic to the Balkans, ca. 1890-1939. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Czeslaw Milosz, History of Polish Literature. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983.

Akos Moravanszky, Competing Visions: Aesthetic Invention and Social Imagination in Central European Architecture, 1867-1918. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1998.

Adam Zamoyski. The Polish Way: A Thousand-year History of the Poles and Their Culture. London: J. Murray, 1987.

Geography and Economics [Return to top]

Iván T. Berend, Central and Eastern Europe, 1944-1993: Detour from the Periphery to the Periphery. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

__________ and György Ránki, Economic Development in East-Central Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries. New York, Columbia University Press, 1974.

Alan Dingsdale, Mapping Modernities: Geographies of Central and Eastern Europe, 1920-2000. New York: Routledge, 2002.

Grzegorz W. Kolodko, From Shock to Therapy: The Political Economy of Postsocialist Transformation. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

David Turnock, ed. East Central Europe and the Former Soviet Union: Environment and Society. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

__________, Eastern Europe: An Historical Geography, 1815-1945. New York: Routledge, 1989.

__________, and F.W. Carter, eds. Environmental Problems in Eastern Europe. New York: Routledge, 1996.

Philosophy and Religion [Return to top]

Barbara Falk, The Dilemmas of Dissidence in East-Central Europe: Citizen Intellectuals and Philosopher Kings. Budapest: Central European University, 2002.

Neil Harding, Leninism. Durham: Duke University Press, 1996.

Jerzy Jedlicki, A Suburb of Europe: Nineteenth-Century Polish Approaches to Western Civilization. Budapest: Central European University Press, 1999.

Jerzy Kloczkowski, A History of Polish Christianity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Alfred G. Meyer, Leninism. 1957; reprint, Boulder: Westview, 1986.

Józef Tischner, Marxism and Christianity: The Quarrel and the Dialogue in Poland. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 1987.

Aviezer Tucker, Philosophy and Politics of Czech Dissidence from Patocka to Havel. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000.

Andrzej Walicki, Marxism and the Leap to the Kingdom of Freedom: The Rise and Fall of the Communist Utopia. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995.