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070075 UE Foreign Languages in Historical Science - Fases y facetas de la Revolución Cubana (2023S)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 7 - Geschichte
Continuous assessment of course work
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Details

max. 25 participants
Language: Spanish

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

Provisional schedule:
Unit 1-2: Introduction by the teachers
Unit 3-4: The "voluntarism" of the 1960s: Analysis of Literature and Joint work with sources: Analysis, Source Criticism, Excerpting, Presentation
Unit 5-8: The pragmatism of the 1970s and 1980s: the period of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance: Analysis of Literature and Joint work with sources: Analysis, Source Criticism, Excerpting, Presentation
Unit 9-10: The "Rectification of Errors" of the second half of the 1980s: Analysis of Literature and Joint work with sources: Analysis, Source Criticism, Excerpting, Presentation
Unit 11-13: Cuban "Internationalism": Analysis of Literature and Joint work with sources: Analysis, Source Criticism, Excerpting, Presentation
Unit 14: Concluding Discussion and Joint Evaluation

  • Wednesday 01.03. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum 4 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Wednesday 08.03. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum 4 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Wednesday 15.03. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum 4 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Wednesday 22.03. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum 4 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Wednesday 29.03. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum 4 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Wednesday 19.04. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum 4 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Wednesday 26.04. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum 4 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Wednesday 03.05. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum 4 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Wednesday 10.05. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum 4 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Wednesday 17.05. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum 4 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Wednesday 24.05. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum 4 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Wednesday 31.05. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum 4 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Wednesday 07.06. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum 4 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Wednesday 14.06. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum 4 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Wednesday 21.06. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum 4 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Wednesday 28.06. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum 4 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock

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Aims, contents and method of the course

Successful revolutions are not limited to the overthrow of the old order and the seizure of power by the revolutionaries. The revolutionary processes that will permanently change society will drag on for a long time. In this sense, the Cuban revolution has been going on for over six decades now. A closer look reveals clear successive stages associated with - sometimes disruptive - policy changes. The subject of this SE is the revolutionary process of building Cuban society. In this UE, a focus shall be placed on the international impact of the Cuban revolution ("Cuban Internationalism"/ "Cuban Globalism"). The time focus are the years 1959-1991, from the revolutionary overthrow to the collapse of the "socialist world system", into which Cuba integrated itself in 1972 - one of the mentioned policy changes - after attempts to follow its own socialist path.
In this UE, documents relating to the different phases of the Cuban Revolution in Spanish and in English language are to be analysed - archive materials, primary literature (printed material for internal use, congress reports etc.) and excerpts from secondary literature. These presentations are given by the participants of the UE, who also are to take the roles of commentators under the supervision of the teachers who also provide the thematical introduction.
Working languages of the UE will be Spanish and in English.

Assessment and permitted materials

Following joint work in these fields under the guidance of the teachers, students analyze archive documents and primary literature (printed material for internal use, congress reports etc.). They correlate the results with outcomes of their reading of secondary literature. They present the results of their work in short presentations in which they analyze documents related to 1 of the 4 main thematical sections of the course.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Active participation in the collective analyses
Positively evaluated oral and written presentation

Examination topics

Active participation in the joint analyses
Oral and written presentation

Reading list

Source Collections and Primary Literature:

The Cuba Reader. The Making of a Revolutionary Society, ed. Philip Brenner et al., New York 1989

Cuba: Twenty-Five Years of Revolution, 1959-1984, ed. Sandor Halebsky/John M. Kirk, New York et al. 1985

Guevara Ernesto, El Hombre Nuevo, in: Cuadernos de cultura latinoamericana 20/1978, 5-24

Historia de Cuba. Nivel Medio Superior, ed. Yuleisi Pinillo Izquierdo et al., La Habana 2016

Mandel Ernest, El debate económico en Cuba durante el período 1963-1964, in: El Socialismo y el Hombre Nuevo. Por Ernesto "Che" Guevara, ed. José Aricó, Mexico 1977, 247-255

Materiales del Archivo Central de la Unión de Jóvenes Comunistas de Cuba

Wilson Digital Archive, http://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org

Secondary Literature:

Domínguez Jorge, To Make a World Safe for Revolution. Cuba's Foreign Policy, Cambridge/Mass. 1989

Erisman H. Michael, Cuba's international relations: The anatomy of a nationalistic foreign policy, Boulder-London 2019

Gleijeses Piero, Visions of Freedom. Havana, Washington, Pretoria, and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1976-1991, Chapel Hill 2013

Grenier Yvon, Domínguez Jorge, Guanche Julio César, Lambe Jennifer, Mesa-Lago Carmelo, Pedraza Silvia, Rojas Rafael, ¿Cuándo terminó la Revolución cubana?: Una discusión, Cuban Studies, 47/2019, 143-165

Martinez Heredia Fernando, Cuban Socialism: Prospects and Challenges, in: Cuban Views on the Revolution, Spring, 1991, Vol. 18, No. 2, 18-37

Mesa-Lago Carmelo, Cuba in the 1970s: pragmatism and institutionalization, Albuquerque 1978

Mesa-Lago Carmelo, Breve historia económica de la Cuba socialista. Política, resultados y perspectivas, Madrid 1994

Unfried Berthold, A Cuban Cycle of developmental socialism? Cubans and East Germans in the Socialist World System, in: Journal für Entwicklungspolitik 3/2017, 69-90

Zeuske Michael, Insel der Extreme. Kuba im 20. Jahrhundert, 2. Aufl. Zürich 2004

Association in the course directory

MA Globalgeschichte (2019): PM1 - Fremdsprachen in der Geschichtswissenschaft (5 ECTS)
BA Geschichte: ZWM Fremdsprachen in der Geschichtswissenschaft (5 ECTS)
MA Geschichte 2019 PM 4 Individuelle Schwerpunktsetzung (5 ECTS)

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