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课程名称 Course Title

二十世纪的欧洲历史 A History of Europe in the Twentieth Century

授课院系

Originating Department

社会科学中心 Center for Social Sciences

课程编号

Course Code

SS127

课程学分 Credit Value

课程类别

Course Type

通识选修课程 General Education (GE) Elective Courses

授课学期

Semester

2021-2022学年第二学期（春季）2021-2022 Spring Semester

授课语言

Teaching Language

英文 English

授课教师、所属学系、联系方

式（如属团队授课，请列明其

他授课教师）

Instructor(s), Affiliation&

Contact

（For team teaching, please list

all instructors）

Tommaso Pepe 青年会士 Junior Fellow

南方科技大学人文社会科学荣誉学会 Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts,SUSTech

e-mail：tommasopepe.uni@gmail.com

实验员/助教、所属学系、联系

方式

Tutor/TA(s), Contact

无 NA

10.

选课人数限额(可不填)

Maximum Enrolment

（Optional）

11.

授课方式

Delivery Method

讲授

Lectures

习题/辅导/讨论

Tutorials

实验/实习

Lab/Practical

其它(请具体注明)

Other（Please specify）

总学时

Total

学时数

Credit Hours

12.

先修课程、其它学习要求

Pre-requisites or Other

Academic Requirements

无 NA

13.

后续课程、其它学习规划

Courses for which this

course is a pre-requisite

无 NA

14.

其它要求修读本课程的学系

Cross-listing Dept.

无 NA

教学大纲及教学日历 SYLLABUS

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教学目标 Course Objectives

This course we will explore the social, cultural, economic and political history of Europe in twentieth century. We will

begin by analyzing the origins of the First World War and its traumatic impact on European societies. From there, we

will examine the interwar years and the predominant ideologies that plunged the European continent into another global

conflict in 1939-1945. Some of the central topics that will be examined in this section include the rise of totalitarian

regimes and the role of anti-Semitism, the Russian Revolution and the flourishing of avant-garde artistic movements in

one of the most turbulent periods of contemporary history.

The second part of the course will survey the postwar reconstruction and the division of the continent into two

opposing blocs. We will discuss the evolution of European integration process as well as the establishment of

Communist regimes in Eastern Europe, the popular uprising that took place on both sides of the Iron Curtain in the

1960s – including the students protests of May 1968 and the Prague Spring – the Second Vatican Council and the deep

transformation experienced by European societies in those years. We will also look at the changing role of Europe in a

global scenario radically transformed by the decolonization process.

The final section of the course will be devoted to the epochal changes set in motion by the fall of the Berlin wall in

1989. We will study the collapse of East European Communist regimes as well the efforts of reconciling the profound

differences that marked the continent in the last decade of the century – and their dramatic failure in the Yugoslavian

wars of 1992-1995. This last section will also provide an overview of the major challenges emerged in recent European

history, from the rise of new migratory flows to the increasing demographic decline. Class instruction will be integrated

by film screenings linked to course topics. Taught in English.

本课程探讨二十世纪欧洲社会、文化、经济和政治的历史。我们将从分析第一次世界大战的起源及其创伤性影响开

始，审视两次世界大战之间，以及1939-1945年将欧洲大陆卷入另一场全球冲突的主导意识形态。课程第一部分围绕极权

主义政权、反犹太主义、俄国革命和先锋派艺术兴起等一些中心话题展开。第二部分考察战后重建和欧洲大陆分裂成两个

对立的阵营。我们将讨论欧洲一体化进程的演变，东欧共产主义政权的建立，20世纪60年代发生在铁幕两边的民众起

义，以及欧洲社会所经历的深刻变革。最后一部分聚焦划时代的演变。1989年柏林墙的倒塌：从东欧剧变到欧盟的扩大

和整合，到1992 - 1995年巴尔干半岛波黑战争。此外也会讨论因新的移民流动和人口不断下降给欧洲带来的挑战。

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预达学习成果 Learning Outcomes

By the end of the course students will achieve the following learning outcomes:

- Acquire a comprehensive knowledge about the history of Europe in the twentieth century, with a particular focus on

its main political, social, cultural and economic events.

- Discuss and analyze a variety of primary sources (texts, films, photographs, documentaries) to develop a coherent

historical argument.

- Interpret the role of Europe in a global context, recognizing the multiple connections that relate European history to

a broad range of cultural, social and political issues of current relevance.

- Acquire a comprehensive knowledge of the main historical processes and factors that shaped contemporary

debates concerning the European continent.

1.通过讨论和分析各种原始资料(文本、电影、照片、纪录片)，学生能够形成连贯的历史论点，全面了解20世纪欧洲

历史，关注其主要政治、社会、文化和经济事件。2.解读欧洲在全球背景下的角色，认识到欧洲历史与当前广泛的文化、

社会和政治问题之间的多重联系。3.了解影响当代有关欧洲大陆争论的主要历史进程和因素。

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课程内容及教学日历（如授课语言以英文为主，则课程内容介绍可以用英文；如团队教学或模块教学，教学日历须注明

主讲人）

Course Contents (in Parts/Chapters/Sections/Weeks. Please notify name of instructor for course section(s), if

this is a team teaching or module course.)

Weekly Schedule

Week

Teaching Content

Readings, Course Materials and

Assignments

Week 1

Course Introduction.

European History in a Global Perspective

Hobsbawm,‘The Century: A Bird’s

View’, in Ages of Extremes. The

Short Twentieth Century, 1919-

1991

Part. I

The Ages of Catastrophe, 1914-1945

Week 2

Sarajevo, 1914.

The end of the Belle Époque and the First

World War

 European societies before 1914

 The origins of the First World War

 The trauma of the war on the front and at

home

 The collapse of the Central Empires

 The Paris Peace Conference and the new

political map of Europe

Films: The Great War, by Mario

Monicelli, Paths of Glory by Stanley

Kubrik, The White Ribbon by

Michael Haneke

Readings: - Lindemann, A History

of Modern Europe, ch 11 (“France

and Great Britain in the Belle

Époque”), ch 12 (“The Origins of

the First World War”), ch 13 (World

War I, 1914-1918)

Week 3

Moscow, 1917, Rome 1922.

The Ages of Totalitarianisms/1. The Soviet

Union and the Fascist Regime

 The political and social consequences of

the First World War

 The first totalitarian regime: the October

revolution and the establishment of the

Soviet Union from Lenin to Stalin

(1917-1925)

 1922: The March on Rome and The

Fascist takeover in Italy

 Culture, arts and cinema in interwar

Europe

Readings:

- Lindemann, A History of Modern

Europe, ch. 15 ("The Paris Peace

Settlement"), ch 17 ("Stalinist Russia

and International Communism"”, ch

18 ("The Origin of Italian Fascism",

"Mussolini's Assumption of Power",

"The Evolving Definition of Fascism",

"The Spread of Fascism Outside

Italy")

Film: A Special Day by Ettore Scola

Week 4

Berlin, 1933.

The Age of Totalitarianism/2.

The rise of Nazism

 The Weimar Republic

 The rise of Nazism: from the Beer Hall

Putsch to the ‘legal’ way to power

(1923-1933)

 Gleichschaltung: the Nazification of

German society

 The role of racial ideologies in Nazi

Germany

 Nazi foreign policy in the late 1930s and

the German-Italian intervention in the

Spanish Civil War



Readings:

Lindemann, A History of Mod-ern

Europe, ch 17, ("The Rise of Fascism

and Nazism

1919–39"), Hobsbawm, ‘The Age of

Total War’

Films: Charlie Chaplin, The Great

Dictator, Victor Erice, The Spirit of the

Beehive

Week 5

Stalingrad, 1942.

The Second World War in Europe

 The failure of the appeasement policy and

the German aggression of Poland: the

origins of the war

 The war in Western and Southern

Europe: France, Italy, the Balkans

 The Eastern Front and the German

invasion of the Soviet Union

 The Resistance against Nazi-Fascism:

France, Yugoslavia, the USSR, Italy

 The collapse of the Axis, 1943-1945



Readings:

Lindemann, A History of Modern

Europe, ch 19, ("The Origins of the

Second World War and the

Holocaust"), Hobsbawm, “The Age of

Total War”

Week 6

Auschwitz, 1945.

The genocide of the European Jews

 Antisemitic ideology in interwar Europe

 The evolution of Nazi racial policies

 The persecution of other marginalized

groups: disabled people, Roma and

Sinti people, homosexuals and political

dissidents

 The Nazi concentration and extermination

camp system and the genocide of the

European Jews

Readings: selected chapters from

The Routledge History of the

Holocaust

Film: Schindler’s List by Steven

Spielberg

Part. II

The Postwar order and the origins of the Cold War, 1945-1968

Week 7

Yalta, 1945.

The new postwar order

 The Yalta conference and the division of

Europe in ‘spheres of influence’

 The Nuremberg Trials

 The Marshall Plan: economic recovery

and Cold War geopolitics

 Berlin, 1945: the division of the two

Germanies

 Postwar European culture and Neorealist

cinema



Readings:

Lindemann, A History of Modern

Europe, ch 22, ("Europe’s Nadir, the

German Question, and the Origins of

the Cold War 1945–50")

Films: Germany Year Zero by Roberto

Rossellini, The Pity and the Sorrow by

Marcel Ophuls

Week 8

Budapest, 1956.

The long 1950s and the formation of the

Communist bloc in Eastern Europe

 The Communist takeover in Eastern

Europe

 The Iron Curtain: origins and

development of the Cold War and its

repercussions on the European

continent

 Democracy and authoritarianism in

Southern Europe: Portugal, Spain,

Yugoslavia, Greece

 At the beginning of the European

integration process: the origins of the

European Community



Readings

Hobsbawm, ‘The Cold War’, selected

chapters from The Cambridge History of

the Cold War

Film: Man of Marble by Andrzej Wajda

Week 9

Algiers, 1962.

The age of decolonization

 The end of the British empire: from the

independence of India to the

establishment of the Commonwealth

Focus: the British Mandate in Palestine,

the origin of the state of Israel and the

Arab-Israeli conflict.

 The Algerian war of independence and

the crisis of the Fourth French Republic

 The last colonial empire: the

independence of Portuguese Angola

and Mozambique



Readings:

Lindemann, A History of Mod-ern

Europe, ch 22,("The End of Imperialism,

and European Recovery

1948–68"), Hobsbawm, ‘End of Empires’

Film: The Battle of Algiers by Gillo

Pontecorvo

Week 10

Paris and Prague, 1968.

The student protests of 1968 and the

transformation of European society

 The student protests across Western

Europe

 The Prague Spring: protest and repression

in the Soviet bloc

 The Feminist movement and the sexual

revolution of the 1960s

 The transformation of family and social

institutions in the 1960s



Readings:

Lindemann, A History of Mod-ern

Europe, ch 23 ("The Mystique of

Revolution Ideologies and Realities,

1945 to the 1960s"), Annette Timm and

Joshua Sanborn, Gender, Sex and the

Shaping of Modern Europe: A History

from the French Revolution to the

Present (selected chapters)

Films: The 400 Blows, by François

Truffaut, Muriel by Alain Resnais

Week 11

From the historical avant-gardes to the

Nouvelle Vague: culture, cinema and the arts

across the century

 This class will provide an overview of the

most relevant artistic and cultural movements

that emerged in 20

century European culture

(futurism, expressionism, surrealism and

other historical avant-gardes, architectonic

rationalism; neorealism and Nouvelle Vague

in cinema: structuralism and the literary arts)



Readings

Hobsbawm, ‘The Avant-Garde Dies:

The Arts after 1950”

Film: Hiroshima Mon Amour by Alain

Resnais

Part III.

Before and after the Wall, 1968-Present

Week 12

Berlin, 1989.

The Fall of the Wall and the dissolution of the

Communist Bloc in Eastern Europe

 Glasnost' and Perestroika: from

Gorbachev’s reforms to the dissolution

of the USSR

 The demise of Communist regimes in

Eastern Europe (Poland, Hungary and

Czechoslovakia’s “Velvet Revolution”)

 The end of Nicolae Ceausescu’s regime

in Romania

 Willy Brandt and the birth of West

Germany’s Ostpolitik

 Berlin, November 9, 1989: the fall of the

Wall and the German reunification

process

Readings:

Lindemann, A History of Mod-ern

Europe, ch 26 ("Détente, Ostpolitik,

Glasnost:

A New Europe")

Hobsbawm, “End of Socialism”

Film: The Lives of Others by Florian

Henckel von Donnersmarck

Week 13

Film screening (in class) and discussion:

Goodbye, Lenin! by Wolfgang Becker

Week 14

Lampedusa, 2014

Towards the New Millennium: migration,

multiculturalism and the challenge of

integration

This lecture of the course, the last before

students’ presentation, will offer an overview of

some major key events in recent European

history (1989-2020):

 Consolidation, enlargement and

challenges of the process of European

integration (the Maastricht Treaties, the

2004 enlargement of the European

Union and the remote causes of the exit

of Great Britain from the EU)

 The fragmentation of Yugoslavia and the

Bosnian war (1992-1995)

 The new geography of international

migrations

Readings

Hobsbawm, ‘Towards the Millennium’,

Philipp Ther, Europe since 1989: A

History (selected chapters)

Films: Underground by Emir Kusturica,

Terraferma by Emanuele Crialese, The

Hate by Mathieu Kassovitz

Week 15

Students Presentations

Week 16

After hegemony.

The European continent in the global context

(final discussion)

Readings:

Dipesh Chakrabarty, Provincializing

Europe (selected chapters).

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教材及其它参考资料 Textbook and Supplementary Readings

All readings, films and documentaries are available on the course website. Students are not required to purchase

any book. Students who desire to further expand their knowledge about the course topics may purchase or request from

the library the following books:

• Albert Lindsmann, A History of Modern Europe: From 1815 to the Present, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.

• Eric Hobsbawm, Ages of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century, London: Abacus, 1994.

课程评估 ASSESSMENT

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评估形式

Type of

Assessment

评估时间

Time

占考试总成绩百分比

% of final

score

违纪处罚

Penalty

备注

Notes

出勤 Attendance

10%

The course allows two three

unexcused absences

课堂表现

Class

Performance

10%

Participation in class discussion

小测验

Quiz

课程项目 Projects

平时作业

Assignments

期中考试

Mid-Term Test

Due on Week 7, 12

and 16

30%

Three short mid-term papers (500-

600 words) concerning topics

discussed in the three course units.

期末考试

Final Exam

40%

At the end of the course, students

are invited to write a research-based

argumentative essay or to develop a

research project in digital format (an

articulated video-essay or digital

project). Students are free to

approach the materials covered

during the course from any

disciplinary or critical perspective.

The paper should be double-spaced

with a length of approximately fifteen

pages (3,000 words). Digital

projects, to be discussed with the

instructor on a case-by-case basis,

should contain a textual component

of no-less than 1,000 words

期末报告

Final

Presentation

Week 15

10%

One final presentation (5-10

minutes) in which students can

present the topic of their final

research paper/project

其它（可根据需要

改写以上评估方

式）

Others (The

above may be

modified as

necessary)

20.

记分方式 GRADING SYSTEM



A. 十三级等级制 Letter Grading



B. 二级记分制（通过/不通过）Pass/Fail Grading

课程审批 REVIEW AND APPROVAL

21.

本课程设置已经过以下责任人/委员会审议通过

This Course has been approved by the following person or committee of authority