This module investigates the problems caused by the collapse of Austria-Hungary and the creation of new states in East-Central Europe (Austria, Czechoslovakia,...

Successors to the Habsburgs: East-Central Europe, 1914-1945 (HIST0472)

This module investigates the problems caused by the collapse of Austria-Hungary and the creation of new states in East-Central Europe (Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Yugoslavia). These Habsburg ‘successor’ states were burdened with nationality problems as complex as those of the former Empire and were constantly under threat of territorial revision. In addition, these states lacked strong traditions of representative government and faced serious social and economic problems which were further aggravated by the onset of the Depression. They thus fell easy prey to authoritarian solutions and looked for support to the Great Powers who in turn sought to influence events within these countries.

The history of these states thus tends to follow a similar pattern: a brief experiment with democracy after the First World War followed by the imposition of authoritarian rule; competition between authoritarian rulers and fascist movements in the 1930s; competition with one another in foreign policy; German occupation; war and communist takeover. Weekly seminars will be structured around both individual ‘country histories’ and themes common to all the ‘successor’ states, together with a study of the interaction between these states and the Great Powers.

HISTORICAL THEORETICAL METHODOLOGICAL MULTIFACETED DEVELOPMENT HUMAN COGNITION NEUROPSYCHOLOGY

Description: Introduction to Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

Developmental cognitive neuroscience provides the scientific knowledge underpinning...

Introduction to Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience (CHLD0056)

Collaborative International Development Project (CIDP) (CEGE0056)

This is a three-day back-to-back intensive course that brings together international leaders in the vaccine development field to discuss and debate issues...