Sumários
The Other Half: Goodbey Lenin
2 Dezembro 2025, 11:00 • Gonçalo Rocha Gonçalves
How the Cold War impacted Europe between the 1960s and the 1980s. Understanding the unexpected nature of the fall of the USSR and Communism: a “rapid, unexpected and peaceful” change. Identify the diffusion of the revolutionary 'trigger' from the autumn of 1989 to the dissolution of the USSR in December 1991; Fall of communism: a revolution or a retreat? Identify and characterize the factors that led to the fall of communism.
The other half: Goodbye Lenin
2 Dezembro 2025, 09:30 • Gonçalo Rocha Gonçalves
How the Cold War impacted Europe between the 1960s and the 1980s. Understanding the unexpected nature of the fall of the USSR and Communism: a “rapid, unexpected and peaceful” change. Identify the diffusion of the revolutionary 'trigger' from the autumn of 1989 to the dissolution of the USSR in December 1991; Fall of communism: a revolution or a retreat? Identify and characterize the factors that led to the fall of communism.
European Cooperation: The Path to Federalism
25 Novembro 2025, 11:00 • Gonçalo Rocha Gonçalves
European cooperation as a strategy to preserve peace. Economic Reconstruction as an early motor of European integration. Patchy, fragile and fragmentary nature of European integration. The of the European Community. European Union a distant and technocratic institution? The need to provincialize European Union? What’s the unique nature of the European Union?
European Cooperation: The Path to Federalism
25 Novembro 2025, 09:30 • Gonçalo Rocha Gonçalves
European cooperation as a strategy to preserve peace. Economic Reconstruction as an early motor of European integration. Patchy, fragile and fragmentary nature of European integration. The of the European Community. European Union a distant and technocratic institution? The need to provincialize European Union? What’s the unique nature of the European Union?
Dimished Expectations and Transitions
18 Novembro 2025, 11:00 • Gonçalo Rocha Gonçalves
Oil shocks: The end of post-war economic boom in western Europe in the 1970s. The paradoxes of economic downturn: social discontentment and cultural challenges. The return of civil and political unrest: Left-wing terrorism in Western Europe. Violent nationalism in Spain (ETA) and United Kingdom (IRA), and anti-capitalism fight in Germany (Baader-Meinhof Group), Italy (Brigate Rosse). End of dictatorship and transition to democracy in the Southern periphery of Europe (Portugal, Spain and Greece).