Module Identifier IP33920  
Module Title CIVIL WAR IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE  
Academic Year 2005/2006  
Co-ordinator Dr Erik Landis  
Semester Intended for use in future years  
Next year offered N/A  
Next semester offered N/A  
Other staff Dr Erik Landis  
Course delivery Lecture   8 x 1 Hour  
  Seminars / Tutorials   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.

Module Skills

Problem_solving Independent project work and problem solving will be one of the central goals of the module; the writing of essays will encourage independent research skills and problem solving. Seminar presentations also help develop independent project skills.  
Research skills The writing of an essay will reflect the independent research skills of the student. Locating and writing up results will also facilitate research skills. Research preparation for a seminar presentation will help to develop independent project skills.  
Communication Students will learn how to present their ideas both verbally and in writing and how to assert themselves. They will learn to appreciate the importance of good communication. They will learn how to focus their argument and consider only information which is relevant to their argument.  
Improving own Learning and Performance Self management is encouraged but with assistance from the module convenor and fellow students. Students are encouraged to improve learning and performance by undertaking research, finding useful information sources and using their initiative.  
Team work Seminars will consist in part of small group discussion where students will be obliged to discuss as a group the core issues related to seminar topics. Such classsroom debates and discussions are a vital component of the module.  
Information Technology IT skills will be developed as all work completed is to be word processed. Students will also be expected to search for information on the web as well as using electronic sources (such as BIDS and OCLC).  
Personal Development and Career planning Transferable skills will be developed in the form of verbal and presentation skills, the ability to take on a project and plan it , research for it, develop and hone and present it and to see it through to completion.  

Reading Lists

Books
** Recommended Text
Fraser, Ronald, Blood of Spain : Penguin,
Fraser, Ronald, Blood of Spain : Pimlico, 712660143
Auty and Clogg British policy towards wartime resistance in Yugoslavia and Greece / Macmillan in association with the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London,
Stradling, Rob. Cardiff and the Spanish Civil War / Butetown History 1898317062
Blinkhorn, Martin, "Carlism and crisis in Spain, 1931-1939 /" Cambridge University Press,
Kenez, Peter. "Civil War in South Russia, 1918 :" University of California Press,
Kenez, Peter "Civil War in South Russia,1919-20" Univ.California P. 520033469
Preston, Paul Coming of the Spanish Civil War edition 2r.e. . Routledge 415063558
Preston, Paul Concise History of the Spanish Civil War edition n.e.of "Spanish Civil War" . Fontana P. 6863736
Acton Critical companion to the Russian Revolution 1914-1921 / Arnold, 340764000
Richardson Decisions and diplomacy : Routledge, 415097959
Gage, Nicholas. Eleni / Ballantine Books,
Payne, Stanley G. Falange Stanford U.P. 804700583
Preston, Paul, Franco : HarperCollins,
Mazower, Mark. Inside Hitler's Greece : Yale University Press, 300089236
Eckstein, Harry Internal War edition n.e. . Greenwood Press,London 031322451X
Rees International communism and the Communist International, 1919-1943 / "Manchester University Press," 719055000
Little, Douglas Malevolent Neutrality Cornell U.P. 801417694
Francis, Hywel. Miners against fascism : Lawrence and Wishart,
Malet, Michael Nestor Makhno in the Russian Civil War Macmillan 333259696
Ferro, Marc. October 1917 : Routledge and Kegan Paul,
Boyce and Robertson Paths to war : Macmillan, 333375181
Jordan, Nicole "Popular Front and Central Europe, The" edition n.e. . Camb.U.P. 521522420
Iatrides, John O. Revolt in Athens : Princeton University Press,
Preston Revolution and War in Spain,1931-1939 edition n.e. . Routledge 415098947
Pipes, Richard "Russia Under the Bolshevik Regime,1919-24" Harvill P. 186046338X
Wade, Rex A. "Russian Revolution,1917, The" Camb.U.P. 521425654
Graham, Helen Socialism and War Camb.U.P. 521392578
Haslam, Jonathan "Soviet Union and the Struggle for Collective Security in Europe,1933-39" Macmillan 333300505
Payne, Stanley G. Spain's First Democracy Univ.Wisconsin P. 299136744
Graham, Helen "Spanish Republic at War 1936-1939, The" Camb.U.P. 052145932X
Licklider Stopping the killing : New York University Press, 814750702
Alpert, Michael. A new international history of the Spanish Civil War / Macmillan, 333534379
Close, David (2002.) Greece since 1945 : 0582356679
Paludan, Phillip Shaw. A people's contest : Harper and Row,
Mazower After the war was over : Princeton University Press, 691058000
Malefakis, Edward E. Agrarian Reform and Peasant Revolution in Spain Yale U.P. 300012101
MacVeagh, Lincoln, Ambassador MacVeagh reports : Princeton University Press,
Wittner, Lawrence S. "American intervention in Greece, 1943-1949 /" Columbia University Press,
Howson, Gerald Arms for Spain J.Murray 719555566
Carr, E. H. The Comintern and the Spanish Civil War / Pantheon Press, 394722639
Alexander The French and Spanish popular fronts : Cambridge University Press,
Close, David The Origins of the Greek civil war / Longman, 582065000
Close, David The Origins of the Greek civil war / Longman, 582065000
preston The Republic besieged : Edinburgh University Press, 748609000
Suny, Ronald Grigor. The revenge of the past : Stanford University Press, 804721343
Mawdsley, Evan, The Russian Civil War / Birlinn, 1841580643
Pipes, Richard. The Russian revolution 1899-1919 / Collins Harvill, 679400745
White, James D. The Russian revolution 1917-1921 : Edward Arnold, 340539100
Bookchin, Murray. The Spanish anarchists : Free Life
Carr, Raymond. (1986.) Civil War in Spain. 029778899X (Paperback/Clawr Papur) :
Carr, Raymond. (1971.) The Republic and the Civil War in Spain 0333006321 :
Brenan, Gerald. (1943.) The Spanish labyrinth :
Brenan, Gerald. (1960.) The Spanish labyrinth : 052104314x
(1988.) The French and Spanish popular fronts :
Pipes, Richard. (1990.) The Russian revolution 1899-1919 0679400745
Pipes, Richard. (1994.) Russia under the Bolshevik Regime :
(c1997.) The Bolsheviks in Russian society : 0300067062 :
Brovkin, Vladimir N. (c1994.) Behind the front lines of the civil war : 0691032785 :
(2000.) After the war was over : 0691058415
(c1993.) Stopping the killing : 0814750702
(1981.) Greece in the 1940s : 0874511984 :
Iatrides, John O. (c1972.) Revolt in Athens :
MacVeagh, Lincoln (c1980.) Ambassador MacVeagh reports :
Carr, Raymond. (2000.) The Spanish tragedy : 1842122037(pbk.) :
Carr, Raymond. (1977.) The Spanish tragedy : 0297773097 :
Carr, Raymond. (1993.) The Spanish tragedy : 0297813730 (pbk) :
(1990.) Elites and power in twentieth-century Spain : 0198228805 :
Preston, Paul (1994.) The coming of the Spanish Civil War : 041506354x
Preston, Paul (1983.) The coming of the Spanish Civil War :
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 :
Jackson, Gabriel. (1974 (various p) A concise history of the Spanish Civil War 0500271801
(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
Bookchin, Murray. The Spanish anarchists : AK Press, 187317604x
Beevor, Antony, The Spanish Civil War / Orbis, 856133051
Beevor, Antony, The Spanish Civil War / Cassell, 304358401
Thomas, Hugh, The Spanish Civil War / Penguin,
Preston, Paul, "The Spanish Civil War, 1936-39 /" Weidenfeld and Nicolson,
Brenan, Gerald. The Spanish labyrinth : Cambridge University Press,
Brenan, Gerald. The Spanish labyrinth : Cambridge University Press, 052104314x
Carr, Raymond. The Spanish tragedy : Weidenfeld and Nicolson,
Woodhouse, C. M. The struggle for Greece 1941-1949 / Hart-Davis, MacGibbon,
** Supplementary Text
Malet, Michael. (1982.) Nestor Makhno in the Russian Civil War
Pipes, Richard. (1964.) The formation of the Soviet Union :
Radkey, Oliver Henry. (1950.) The election to the Russian Constituent Assembly of 1917
Payne, Stanley G. (2004.) The Spanish Civil War, the Soviet Union, and communism 030010068X :
Seidman, Michael (c1991.) Workers against work :labor in Paris and Barcelona during the popular fronts /Michael Seidman. 0520069153
Dimitrov, Georgi (2003.) The diary of Georgi Dimitrov, 1933-1949 0300097948 :
Koliopoulos, Giannes (c1999.) Plundered loyalties : 185065381X :
(2001.) Spain betrayed : 0300089813
Preston, Paul (1999.) Comrades! Portraits from the Spanish Civil War. 0002556359
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 :
(1975.) British policy towards wartime resistance in Yugoslavia and Greece
Andrews, Kevin (1984.) The flight of Ikaros : 0140095314 (pbk) :
Carr, Raymond. (1986) Images of the Spanish civil war 0049400894 :
Radkey, Oliver H. (1976.) The unknown civil war in Soviet Russia :
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
Wade, Rex A. (2000.) The Russian Revolution, 1917 0521415489 (hb)
Thomas, Hugh (1977 (various p) The Spanish Civil War
** Should Be Purchased
Gage, Nicholas. (1996.) Eleni
Close, David (1995 (various p) The Origins of the Greek civil war 0582064724
Preston, Paul (1996.) A concise history of the Spanish Civil War 0006863736
Read, Christopher. (1996.) From Tsar to Soviets : 1857283597
** 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)
Howson, Gerald. (1998.) Arms for Spain : 0719555566
Graham, Helen (1991.) Socialism and war :
Graham, Helen (2002.) The Spanish republic at war, 1936-1939 0521453143
Payne, Stanley G. (1961.) Falange :
Malefakis, Edward Emanuel. (1970.) Agrarian reform and the peasant revolution in Spain : 0300012101 :
(2002.) Greece, 1940-1949 : 0333523695
** Consult For Futher Information
Du Boulay, Juliet. (1979.) Portrait of a Greek mountain village
** Essential Reading
(1993.) The Greek civil war, 1943-1950 : 041502112X
(1997 (2001 prin) Critical companion to the Russian Revolution 1914-1921 0340614544
(c1997.) Critical companion to the Russian Revolution, 1914-1921 0253333334
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)
Mazower, Mark. (2001.) Inside Hitler's Greece : 0300089236(pbk.) :
Seidman, Michael (c2002.) Republic of egos :a social history of the Spanish Civil War /Michael Seidman. 0299178609
(1987.) Studies in the history of the Greek Civil War, 1945-1949 8772890045 (pbk.)
Fraser, Ronald (c1979 (1981 pri) Blood of Spain :
Fraser, Ronald (1994, c1979.) Blood of Spain : 0712660143 (pbk) :
** Recommended Background
Ferro, Marc. (1980.) October 1917 :
Lincoln, W. Bruce. (c1994.) Passage through Armageddon : 0641557092
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.) :
Carr, Raymond. (1980.) Modern Spain 1875-1980 0192158287
Bookchin, Murray. (1998.) The Spanish anarchists : 187317604x
Blinkhorn, Martin. (1986.) Spain in Conflict,1931-39 : 0803997450 (Cloth/Lliain) :
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 :
Marples, David R. (2000.) Lenin's revolution : 058231917X(pbk.) :
Lincoln, W. Bruce. (c1989.) Red victory : 0671631667 :

Notes

This module is at CQFW Level 6