MO3423 Dictatorship in Practice: Everyday Life in Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, Franco's Spain and the Stalinist Soviet Union

Academic year

2024 to 2025 Semester 2

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Key module information

SCOTCAT credits

30

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SCQF level

SCQF level 9

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Planned timetable

TBC

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Module coordinator

Prof K Ferris

Prof K Ferris
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Module Staff

Professor Kate Ferris

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Module description

This module explores the 'lived experience' of dictatorship in Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, Franco's Spain and the Stalinist Soviet Union. As such the module provides an introduction to the historiographical and conceptual approaches and empirical research surrounding the history of everyday life, an area of historical study which has gained increasing importance over recent decades. It also permits detailed insight into social and cultural policies and practices within the major European dictatorships of the mid-twentieth century. Our aim is to reveal how far these regimes succeeded in penetrating and appropriating the daily practices and 'private' worlds of the individuals they governed, as well as to note the complexities of 'ordinary' people's lived experience of dictatorship and their responses to the intrusion of the regime and its cultural products into their day-to-day lives.

Relationship to other modules

Pre-requisites

BEFORE TAKING THIS MODULE YOU MUST PASS AT LEAST 60 CREDITS FROM {MO1007, MO1008, MO2008, HI2001, MH2002}

Assessment pattern

Coursework = 100%

Re-assessment

4,000 - to 5,000-word essay = 100%

Learning and teaching methods and delivery

Weekly contact

1 x 2-hour seminar, plus 1 office hour.

Scheduled learning hours

22

The number of compulsory student:staff contact hours over the period of the module.

Guided independent study hours

278

The number of hours that students are expected to invest in independent study over the period of the module.