Module Identifier IP33920  
Module Title CIVIL WAR IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE  
Academic Year 2004/2005  
Co-ordinator Dr Erik Landis  
Semester Semester 2  
Other staff Dr Erik Landis  
Course delivery Lecture   8 Hours 8 x 1 Hour  
  Seminars / Tutorials   16 Hours 8 x 2 Hour  
Assessment
Assessment TypeAssessment Length/DetailsProportion
Semester Exam 1 x 2 Hour Exam  60%
Semester Assessment 1 x 3000 Word Paper  40%

Learning outcomes

  1. Demonstrate an understanding of the case studies in civil war covered in the module
  2. Assess the role of outside intervention on the dynamic of civil wars
  3. Discuss the role of violence in the mobilization of support for movements in civil war conflicts
  4. Evaluate the characteristics of civil war conflicts before and after the end of the Cold War
  5. Discuss the distinctions between civil wars and wars between states
  6. Analyze the roles of the community, ethnicity, and nationality in civil war conflicts
  7. Discuss the relationship between revolution and civil war

Brief description

This module aims to provide students with an understanding of the nature of civil war in modern history by examining in depth case studies of major civil conflicts in the twentieth century. The emphasis is on approaching individual case studies with attention to particular traits of civil conflict, developing as a set of analytical tools for understanding civil wars, past and present, in comparative perspective.

Content

The module will begin by introducing and defining the study of civil wars, looking at theoretical and conceptual aspects as well as presenting an overview of the topic.

The Module will then look at four case studies:

The Module will conclude by assessing civil conflict at the micro- and macro- levels.

Reading Lists

Books
** Recommended Text
Brovkin, Vladimir N. (c1994.) Behind the front lines of the civil war : 0691032785 :
(c1997.) The Bolsheviks in Russian society : 0300067062 :
Pipes, Richard. (1990.) The Russian revolution 1899-1919 0679400745
Brenan, Gerald. (1960.) The Spanish labyrinth : 052104314x
Carr, Raymond. (1971.) The Republic and the Civil War in Spain 0333006321 :
(1990.) Elites and power in twentieth-century Spain : 0198228805 :
Carr, Raymond. (1977.) The Spanish tragedy : 0297773097 :
MacVeagh, Lincoln (c1980.) Ambassador MacVeagh reports :
(1981.) Greece in the 1940s : 0874511984 :
Preston, Paul (1978.) The coming of the Spanish Civil War :
Radcliff, Pamela Beth. (1996.) From mobilization to Civil War : the politics of polarization in the Spanish City of Gij on, 1900-1937. 0521562139 :
Holquist, Peter. (2002.) Making war, forging revolution : 067400907X :
Raleigh, Donald J. (c2002.) Experiencing Russia's civil war : 0691113203(pbk.) :
Woodhouse, C. M. (1976.) The struggle for Greece 1941-1949 0246640723
Richter, Heinz. (1985, c1986.) British Intervention in Greece. 0850363012
Kofos, Evangelos. (1993.) Nationalism and communism in Macedonia : 0892415401 :
(2000.) After the war was over : 0691058415
(c1993.) Stopping the killing : 0814750702
(1998.) International communism and the Communist International, 1919-1943 0719051169
Preston, Paul (1986.) The Spanish Civil War, 1936-39
Preston, Paul (c1986 (1990 pri) The Spanish civil war 1936-39
(1984.) Revolution and war in Spain 1931-1939 0416349706
(1996.) The Republic besieged : 0748608680
Preston, Paul (1990.) The politics of revenge :
Preston, Paul (1993 (various p) Franco : 0002158639
Preston, Paul (1994.) The coming of the Spanish Civil War : 041506354x
Preston, Paul (1983.) The coming of the Spanish Civil War :
Close, David (2002.) Greece since 1945 : 0582356679
Jackson, Gabriel. (1974 (various p) A concise history of the Spanish Civil War 0500271801
Iatrides, John O. (c1972.) Revolt in Athens :
Carr, Raymond. (2000.) The Spanish tragedy : 1842122037(pbk.) :
Carr, Raymond. (1993.) The Spanish tragedy : 0297813730 (pbk) :
Carr, Raymond. (1986.) Civil War in Spain. 029778899X (Paperback/Clawr Papur) :
Brenan, Gerald. (1943.) The Spanish labyrinth :
(1988.) The French and Spanish popular fronts :
Pipes, Richard. (1994.) Russia under the Bolshevik Regime :
** Supplementary Text
Malet, Michael. (1982.) Nestor Makhno in the Russian Civil War
Richmond, Kathleen (2003.) Women and Spanish fascism : 0415289610
Wittner, Lawrence S. (1982.) American intervention in Greece, 1943-1949 0231041969
Stavrakis, Peter J. (1989.) Moscow and Greek communism, 1944-1949 080142125X (cased)
Sfikas, Thanasis D. (1994.) The British Labour Government and the Greek Civil War, 1945-1949 : 1853310484 :
Koliopoulos, Giannes (c1999.) Plundered loyalties : 185065381X :
(1975.) British policy towards wartime resistance in Yugoslavia and Greece
Dimitrov, Georgi (2003.) The diary of Georgi Dimitrov, 1933-1949 0300097948 :
Andrews, Kevin (1984.) The flight of Ikaros : 0140095314 (pbk) :
Seidman, Michael (c1991.) Workers against work :labor in Paris and Barcelona during the popular fronts /Michael Seidman. 0520069153
(2001.) Spain betrayed : 0300089813
Preston, Paul (1999.) Comrades! Portraits from the Spanish Civil War. 0002556359
Radkey, Oliver H. (1976.) The unknown civil war in Soviet Russia :
Radkey, Oliver Henry. (1950.) The election to the Russian Constituent Assembly of 1917
Pipes, Richard. (1964.) The formation of the Soviet Union :
Carr, Raymond. (1986) Images of the Spanish civil war 0049400894 :
Payne, Stanley G. (2004.) The Spanish Civil War, the Soviet Union, and communism 030010068X :
Lenin, Vladimir Il ich (1996 (1998 prin) The unknown Lenin : 0300076622
Suny, Ronald Grigor. (1972.) The Baku Commune 1917-1918 : 0691051933
** Reference Text
Suny, Ronald Grigor. (1998.) The Soviet experiment : 0195081048
Thomas, Hugh (1977 (various p) The Spanish Civil War
Wade, Rex A. (2000.) The Russian Revolution, 1917 0521415489 (hb)
** Should Be Purchased
Read, Christopher. (1996.) From Tsar to Soviets : 1857283597
Close, David (1995 (various p) The Origins of the Greek civil war 0582064724
Gage, Nicholas. (1996.) Eleni
Preston, Paul (1996.) A concise history of the Spanish Civil War 0006863736
** Recommended Consultation
Alpert, Michael. (1994.) A new international history of the Spanish Civil War 0333534387 (pbk.)
Payne, Stanley G. (1993.) Spain's first democracy : 0299136744 (pbk)
Malefakis, Edward Emanuel. (1970.) Agrarian reform and the peasant revolution in Spain : 0300012101 :
Payne, Stanley G. (1961.) Falange :
(2002.) Greece, 1940-1949 : 0333523695
Howson, Gerald. (1998.) Arms for Spain : 0719555566
Graham, Helen (1991.) Socialism and war :
Graham, Helen (2002.) The Spanish republic at war, 1936-1939 0521453143
** Consult For Futher Information
Du Boulay, Juliet. (1979.) Portrait of a Greek mountain village
** Essential Reading
(1997 (2001 prin) Critical companion to the Russian Revolution 1914-1921 0340614544
(c1997.) Critical companion to the Russian Revolution, 1914-1921 0253333334
Fraser, Ronald (1994, c1979.) Blood of Spain : 0712660143 (pbk) :
Seidman, Michael (c2002.) Republic of egos :a social history of the Spanish Civil War /Michael Seidman. 0299178609
Mazower, Mark. (2001.) Inside Hitler's Greece : 0300089236(pbk.) :
(1993.) The Greek civil war, 1943-1950 : 041502112X
Mawdsley, Evan (c2000.) The Russian Civil War 1841580643
(c2004.) The Greek Civil War : http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy045/2003065370.html 0754641325 (pbk. : alk. paper)
(1987.) Studies in the history of the Greek Civil War, 1945-1949 8772890045 (pbk.)
Fraser, Ronald (c1979 (1981 pri) Blood of Spain :
** Recommended Background
Lincoln, W. Bruce. (c1994.) Passage through Armageddon : 0641557092
Carr, Raymond. (1980.) Modern Spain 1875-1980 0192158287
Ferro, Marc. (1980.) October 1917 :
Woodhouse, C. M. (1977.) Modern Greece : 0571049362
Mazower, Mark. (2004.) Salonica, city of ghosts : 0007120230 (hbk.)
Alexander, G. M. (1982.) The prelude to the Truman Doctrine :
Xydis, S. G. (1963.) Greece and the Great Powers, 1944-1947 :
Haslam, Jonathan. (1984.) The Soviet Union and the struggle for collective security in Europe, 1933-39
Carr, Raymond. (2001.) Modern Spain, 1875-1980 0192801295(pbk.) :
Bookchin, Murray. (1998.) The Spanish anarchists : 187317604x
Blinkhorn, Martin. (1986.) Spain in Conflict,1931-39 : 0803997450 (Cloth/Lliain) :
Lincoln, W. Bruce. (c1989.) Red victory : 0671631667 :
Marples, David R. (2000.) Lenin's revolution : 058231917X(pbk.) :
Blinkhorn, Martin (1988.) Democracy and civil war in Spain, 1931-1939
Blinkhorn, Martin (1975.) Carlism and crisis in Spain, 1931-1939
Brovkin, Vladimir N. (1987.) The Mensheviks after October : 0801418585 :

Notes

This module is at CQFW Level 6