1. Introduction - society, economy, politics and culture in the twentieth century (sources, methods, approaches).

2. European society in Great Wars: Social transformations in the war time (situation of various social groups), experiences of disrespect and violence (forms of adoption), resistance and collaboration.

3. Social stratification: principles of defining it, social hierarchies and inequalities in twentieth-century Europe - elites, middle class, working classes, rural population - social mobility.

4. Migration, transfers: Transfers of people, goods, ideas, institutions, cultures - forms of interaction and adaptations - examples of the twentieth century: migration.

5. Radical social movements (Fascism and Nazism): roots of the movements, forms of organization, stages in development, forms of dictatorships. Example in historiography: "Der Historikerstreit".

6. Stalinism as Civilization: social dynamics of repression, urbanization and industrialization, everyday life in Stalinist Russia.

7. Civil society: Conception, relation to state in twentieth-century Europe, political institutions and democratic participation of citizens, media in the modern society.

8. New social movements: Forms of organizations and agency, values and goals, protest groups and collective identities - examples of NSM - students’, ecology, peace, feminist.

9. Consumerism: free time, fashion, sport and recreation, travelling, cultural industry in the twentieth-century Europe.

10. Social consensus in Post-Stalinism and late socialism: Dictatorship as a social practice (adoption of the structures of domination), everyday life in late socialism, erosion of legitimacy of socialist dictatorships.