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Mid-Term Review

History 0200 Eastern Europe

Professor Irina Livezeanu

Fall 1998

 

Midterm exam November 3. No make-ups will be given without an extremely good excuse backed up by an official note.

The midterm will cover material we have read, seen, and discussed since September 1, 1998. A good guide to this material is on the web site for this course:

  • readings as listed on this web page
    • (http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/eehistory/H200) under topics 1, 2, and 3: Longworth, Stokes, Drakulic, Wazyk, Blandiana, "Life and Death in Romania," Eagle, the Ceausescu Trial, etc.
  • videos we have seen:
    • Life of Monuments
    • We Are All Neighbors
    • People Power
    • Man of Marble
    • Oratorio for Prague
  • maps posted on the web site. Be able to identify the countries of Eastern Europe and their capital cities
  • discussion questions for topics 1, 2, and 3. Be able to answer these providing evidence to back up your views

Be able to fully identify the following terms, titles, and names
  • 1966 decree
  • A Vegetable People
  • Agnieszka
  • All
  • Balkans
  • Berlin Wall
  • Bierut
  • Breshnev Doctrine
  • Burski
  • Cafe Europa
  • Ceausescu
  • Central Europe
  • Charter 77
  • de-Stalinization
  • Dubcek
  • glasnost
  • Gomulka
  • Gorbachev
  • gulash communism
  • Havel
  • Helsinki Accords
  • KadarKhrushchev's secret speech
  • KOR
  • Life of Monuments
  • Man of Marble
  • Mateusz Birkut
  • Nagy
  • Poem for Adults
  • Polish October
  • Prague Spring
  • Rakosi
  • Slavenka Drakulic
  • socialist realism
  • Solidarity
  • Stakhanovite
  • Thaw
  • Velvet Revolution

 

 

 

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