History 0304

20
th
Century Europe
Fall 2014
Professor J. Lewis

Required Texts: Eric Hobsbawn, The Age of Extremes
On-line texts and readings distributed in class
Sept 3 Eclipse of Reason
Carl E. Schorske, Generation Tensions and Cultural Change: the Case of Vienna (access via JSTOR on-
line)
http://www.jstor.org.ccny-proxy1.libr.ccny.cuny.edu/stable/pdfplus/1875737.pdf

Sept Imperialism and World War
8-9 Hobsbawn, Chap. 1
Rosa Luxemburg, The Workers and the War, 1916
http://www.h-net.org/~german/gtext/kaiserreich/lux.html

Sept Fascism
15-17 Hobsbawn, Chap. 4
Benito Mussolini, The Doctrine of Fascism, 1932 (complete text)
http://www.worldfuturefund.org/wffmaster/Reading/Germany/mussolini.htm
George L. Mosse, The Genesis of Fascism, 1966
http://www.jstor.org/stable/259647

Sept The Collapse of Classical Marxism
22 Jean Jaures, The Socialist Interest, 1898
http://marxists.org/archive/jaures/1898/socialist-interest.htm
Eduard Bernstein, Evolutionary Socialism, Introduction, 1899
http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/bernstein/works/1899/evsoc/preface.htm
V. I. Lenin, What is to Be Done? 1902
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1902lenin.asp
Rosa Luxemburg, Organizational Questions of Russian Social Democracy, Parts I and II
http://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1904/questions-rsd/
Karl Kautsky, Democracy and the Proletariat, and The New Theory in The Dictatorship of the
Proletariat, 1918
http://marxists.org/archive/kautsky/1918/dictprole/ch02.htm
http://marxists.org/archive/kautsky/1918/dictprole/ch10.htm

Sept The Weimar Republic and High Modernism
29-Oct Dietrich Orlow, 1918/19: A German Revolution, 1982
6 http://www.jstor.org/stable/1429313
Sheri Berman, Civil Society and the Collapse of the Weimar Republic, 1997
http://www.jstor.org/stable/20029315
Eric Weitz, Weimar Germany and Its Histories, 2010
http://www.jstor.org/stable/40962728

Oct 8 Capitalisms Secular Crisis
Hobsbawn, Chap. 3
John Maynard Keynes, A Self-Regulating Economic System, 1935 (access via JSTOR)
http://www.jstor.org.ccny-proxy1.libr.ccny.cuny.edu/stable/pdfplus/40472252.pdf
Michael A. Bernstein, The Great Depression as Historical Problem, 2001 (via JSTOR)

Oct 15 Classical Communism
-20 T. von Laue, Stalin in Focus, 1983 (via JSTOR)
H. Kuromiya, Stalin and His Era, 2007 (via JSTOR)
http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/2496042.pdf?acceptTC=true
1905 Treaty of Portmouth (Articles 1 thru 11)
http://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Treaty_of_Portsmouth
1918 Treaty of Brest-Litvok (Arts. 1 thru 11)
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/bl34.asp#treatytext
1919 Winston Churchill on Allied Intervention in the Russian Civil War
http://pbma.grobbel.org/churchill.htm
1924 Adolf Hitler, Eastern Orientation or Eastern Policy, from Mein Kampf (hand-out)
1937 Anti-Comintern Treaty between Germany, Italy and Japan
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/wwii/tri3.asp
June 1941 German Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop on the Declaration of War on the USSR
http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/policy/1941/410622b.html
Nov 1941 List of Countries joining the Anti-Comintern Pact following invasion of the USSR in June
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Comintern_Pact#Revised_pact_of_1941
1931 Joseph Stalin, The Task of Economic Executives
http://www.marx2mao.com/Stalin/TEE31.html
Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis-Bonaparte (excerpt handout), 1852

Oct 22 The Second World War
Hobsbawn, Chap. 5
Ian Kershaw, Hitler and the Uniqueness of Nazism, 2004 (JSTOR)

Oct 27 Reform Capitalism in Western Europe
-29 Hobsbawn, Chaps. 9
Alexander Werth, The French Political Parties and the 1951 Elections, 1956 (from France, 1940-1955)
Ludwig Erhard, The German Economic Miracle vs. the Welfare State, 1957
http://mises.org/daily/4440
The Aims and Tasks of Democratic Socialism, The Socialist International, 1951
http://www.socialistinternational.org/viewArticle.cfm?ArticleID=39
The Schuman Declaration, 9 May 1950
http://europa.eu/about-eu/basic-information/symbols/europe-day/schuman-declaration/index_en.htm
E. Gartzke/D. Rohner, The Political Economy of Imperialism, Decolonization and Development, 2011
(JSTOR)




Nov 3 Real Socialism
-5 Hobsbawn, Chap. 13
William J. Thompson, The Fall of Nikita Khrushchev, 1991 (via JSTOR)
http://www.jstor.org/stable/152407
Transcript of Leonid Brezhnev's Telephone Conversation with Alexander Dubek, August 13, 1968
http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/publications/DOC_readers/psread/doc81.htm

Nov 10 The New Left
-17 T. Adorno/M. Horkheimer, The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception, 1944, from Dialectic
of Enlightenment.
http://ada.evergreen.edu/~arunc/texts/frankfurt/hork/hork.pdf
Herbert Marcuse, New Forms of Social Control, from One Dimensional Man, 1964
http://marxists.org/reference/archive/marcuse/works/one-dimensional-man/ch01.htm
Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle, 1967, Chaps. I and IX
http://www.cddc.vt.edu/sionline/si/tsots01.html
http://www.cddc.vt.edu/sionline/si/tsots09.html

Nov 19 The New Right
-Dec 1 Hobsbawn, Chap. 14
Herbert Marcuse, The Failure of the New Left?, (via JSTOR)
http://www.jstor.org/stable/487843
Reading: Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom, 1961, Chapters 1, 2, 7 and 11
http://books.cat-v.org/economics/capitalism-and-freedom/
Margaret Thatcher, Speech to the Scottish Conservative Conference, 12 May 1979
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/104082

Dec 3 The Decline and Fall of European Communism
-8 Hobsbawn, Chap. 16
Manifesto of Charter 77
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/czechoslovakia/cs_appnd.html
Mikhail Gorbachev, Speech Dissolving the USSR, 1991
http://www.publicpurpose.com/lib-gorb911225.htm
Stephen F. Cohen, Was the Soviet System Reformable?, 2004 (via JSTOR)

Dec 10 The Collapse of Neo-Liberalism?
President George W. Bush, Our Economy is in Danger, September 24, 2008
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsDmPEeurfA
Thomas Picketty, Top Income Shares in the Long-Run: An Overview, 2005 (via JSTOR)

Dec 15 Conclusions