This unit focuses on twentieth-century wars and revolutions across the globe. It explores the concept of revolution in its broadest sense: as a fundamental transformation of politics, society or culture. Topics to be studied include the social and cultural revolutions of the 1920s; ideological revolutions in Germany and Italy; the economic and social consequences of World War II; decolonisation struggles; 1960s cultural revolutions in China, Europe and the United States. Finally, the end of the cold war will be studied in light of religious and ethnic counter-revolutions, and the resurgence of nationalism in Eastern Europe. -- Course Website
Instructor: Dr Julie Kalman & Dr Reto Hofmann
