About.This course looks at the history of the Soviet Union and the post-1945 German and Eastern European socialist states with a concentration on films made in these countries, as well as films made elsewhere or later about life under state socialism. We will focus on a few key eras and topics, such as World War II films, Stalinism/socialist realism, the Thaw, the position of women in socialist society and generational conflict.
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Eliza Ablovatski
Associate Professor of History, Kenyon College
Eliza Ablovatski joined the Kenyon history department in 2003, after graduate work in East Central European history at Columbia University and research and fellowships in Munich and Berlin, Germany and Budapest, Hungary. She teaches classes on Europe from 1500 to the present, focusing on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Germany, Russia, the Habsburg Monarchy, film, nationalism and identity, gender, race and the interwar period.
Her dissertation and first book, Revolution and Political Violence in Central Europe: The Deluge of 1919(forthcoming from Cambridge University Press), focus on the revolutionary upheavals in Munich and Budapest following the First World War and their relationship to political violence and antisemitism. She is currently researching the occupation of Austria (1945-1955) at the end of the Second World War and the nuclear idea in postwar Europe. She has also researched and written extensively on the history of Jews in the former Habsburg regional capital of Czernowitz (now Ukraine).
Associate Professor of History, Kenyon College
Eliza Ablovatski joined the Kenyon history department in 2003, after graduate work in East Central European history at Columbia University and research and fellowships in Munich and Berlin, Germany and Budapest, Hungary. She teaches classes on Europe from 1500 to the present, focusing on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Germany, Russia, the Habsburg Monarchy, film, nationalism and identity, gender, race and the interwar period.
Her dissertation and first book, Revolution and Political Violence in Central Europe: The Deluge of 1919(forthcoming from Cambridge University Press), focus on the revolutionary upheavals in Munich and Budapest following the First World War and their relationship to political violence and antisemitism. She is currently researching the occupation of Austria (1945-1955) at the end of the Second World War and the nuclear idea in postwar Europe. She has also researched and written extensively on the history of Jews in the former Habsburg regional capital of Czernowitz (now Ukraine).
Contributors
Sofia Alpizar Roman | class of 2021
David Cosimano | class of 2019 Olive Hilmes | class of 2018 |
Ellie Muse | class of 2018
Indigo Rinearson | class of 2018 Jamie Sussman | class of 2021 |
For a list of books we read in this class, click here.