REES 296

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Credit: 3 hours.

Topics in the interdisciplinary study of Russia, Eastern Europe, and Eurasia.

Approved for both letter and S/U grading. May be repeated in separate terms to a maximum of 6 hours.

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	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	55763	Lecture-Discussion	100	2:00PM -4:50PM	W	431 Armory	Demshuk, A	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/18/11-05/04/11 Section Title: Modern Poland Section Info: After an overview of medieval and early-modern Polish history, this upper-level undergraduate or graduate course will introduce students to the problems in Modern Polish history from the last years of the Commonwealth through the present day. Central to the course will be questions of racial interchange and conflict. Poland's Jewish heritage will be traced through each era of Polish history, and contemporary controversies about Polish participation in the Holocaust and postwar anti-Semitism will be critically explored. The role of German, Lithuanian, and Ukrainian-speaking populations in Poland will also be of great importance. Students will become acquainted with the shifting borders of Poland, questions of ethnicity, and the history of Polish nationalism. The Polish struggle for independence will be traced through the partitions, Napoleonic wars, nineteenth-century uprisings, twentieth-century wars and border conflicts, and the years as a Soviet satellite. Discussions about the postwar development of Poland will feature its reinvention as a "homogenous Polish-Catholic nation-state," its physical shift from east to west, its transformation into an industrial power, the Polish martyrology narrative, questions of anti-Semitism, and resistance to as well as collaboration with Communism. We will conclude by exploring Poland's integration into the new Europe, as well as contemporary questions such as Poland's growing east-west gap in affluence, Poland's struggle with the ongoing economic crisis, and preparations for the fast-approaching European soccer championships in 2012, which are to take place in Poland and Ukraine.