Revolution and dissent: changing the world
Margaret Lindley
8 points * 2 lectures and 1 tutorial per week * Second semester * Clayton * Prohibitions: HSY2030/HSY3030 (Peninsula)
The subject explores the history of revolutionary movements and Western Utopian thought (both masculinist and feminist) as a response to the problems of human existence. The exploration begins in ancient mythology, and continues through the rise of feudalism and of capitalism and the early ideological struggles associated with them, to the emergence in the nineteenth century of the idea of `socialism'. Socialism is examined from the development of `scientific' socialism through to the Russian Revolution and its aftermath, and feminism and related civil rights movements are examined as agents of change. The principal concerns of the subject are with how change is defined and by whom. How is dissent expressed? What is revolution?
Assessment
Written (6000 words): 90% * Class participation/attendance: 10%
Prescribed texts
Cohn N The pursuit of the millennium OUP, 1975
Hill C The world turned upside down: Radical ideas during the English Revolution Penguin, 1975
Recommended texts
Marx K and Engels F Manifesto of the Communist Party (any edition)
More T Utopia CUP, 1989
Reed J Ten days that shook the world Penguin, 1977