The course focuses on Central Europe's economic and social history from the 19th century to the present. Emphasis will be placed particularly on modernization (as well as anti-modernization) processes. The comparative approach will be based on the Bohemian and German countries, which have been the most developed for many decades, against which the others will be compared.
Introductory lesson ? methodology; chronology, geographical and thematic definition of the topic
Removing the remnants of the feudal system in Central Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries
The First Industrial Revolution in Central Europe
The Second Industrial Revolution, the "First Globalization" (until 1914), and its specifics in Central Europe
The economic and social context of the First World War and the "golden" 1920s in Central Europe
The Great Economic Depression of the 1930s and the Second World War in Central Europe
Post-war reconstruction and the "golden 30 years? in the context of the Cold War in Central Europe
The theory and practice of the functioning of the Nazi and the communist centrally planned economy in Central Europe
The Third Industrial Revolution in communist and capitalist Central Europe
Economic integrations in communist and capitalist Central Europe
The collapse of communist regimes and the economic transformation of Central European economies to the capitalist model
Central Europe, the ("second") globalization and Industry 4.0
Final conclusions ? Central Europe in global economic and social history
- Учитель: Jan Slavíček