Communism and Capitalism in Eastern Europe

4 credits · Undergraduate credit

An overview of East Central Europe from 1945 to the present. The first half of the course explores the workings of state socialism from an anthropological perspective (with particular focus on political economy and material culture) from the Stalinist 1950s to the more diversified decades of the 1960s to 1980s. The second half covers the "revolutions" of 1989 and contemporary social, cultural, economic and political processes, including struggles over membership to the E.U.