HIST 4425 Modern Eastern Europe

This upper-division course surveys the history of Eastern Europe from the eighteenth century to the post-communist era. It examines the evolution of multinational empires (Russian, Habsburg, Ottoman, and German) that defined the region. It addresses the rise of nationalism as a modern ideology and the challenges it posed to such empires on the eve of World War I. The course then highlights nationalism's contribution to two world wars and the Holocaust and concludes with problems nationalism poses to the region since the fall of communism.