Syllabus
1) The Second World War 2) The beginnings of the Cold War (1945-1953) 3) The formation of the Soviet bloc 4) The main problems of the international relations in the 1950s and 1960s. 5) The 1950s and 1960s behind the Iron Curtain. 6) The European integration 7) Decolonization and the problems of the developing countries 8) The Near East in the world politics 9) The politics of détente in the 1970s 10) The "New course" in the 1980s 11) The Soviet bloc in the 1980s 12) The fall of communist regimes in the Middle and Eastern Europe
Annotation
This course focuses on the history of the international relations in the second half of the 20th century.