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Mar 17, 2026
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FILM 363 - Socialism & Revolution in Modern Europe
This course is designed to explore the relationship between socialism and revolution in Europe during the modern period and the tools the European revolutionary tradition has bequeathed us. It will examine the different forms that revolutions have taken, as well as the different types of socialisms that have appeared throughout the modern period in Europe, and it will force us to consider what conditions have made for successful or failed revolutions. The course will begin with the radical idealism of the French Revolution, and continue with the French and British utopian socialists of the 1830s and 1840s, who dreamt of creating the perfect society composed of productive and fulfilled human beings, and whose utopian ideas influenced the European revolutions of 1830 and 1848. The course will then move to the development of Marxism and Marxist political organizations, the anarchist challenge to Marxism, and workers’ own struggles to organize on their behalf. We will examine the Russian Revolution of 1917, and explore everyday life under Soviet-style socialism from the perspective of both the historian and the novelist. The course will then examine the extraordinary revolutions of May 1968 and ask what relationship its goals bear to socialism and to the legacy of European revolutions. We will end the course with a quick look at a revolution which all of you were alive to witness: Ukraine’s Maidan Revolution in 2013-14.
Cross-listed with HIST 363
3 credits
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