UCSB Hist 4c lecture overlay

4C/Marcuse, L19 overlay, June 6, 2000

RE"F"OLUTIONS END THE COLD WAR

Music: Billy Joel (b. 1949), "We didn't start the fire" (2000)

What caused the demise of the communist bloc?

Reform vs. repression?
- "Prague Spring," Jan.-Aug. 1968
  - Jan Palach (1948-Jan. 16, 1969): human torches (1999 Czech student interviews)
  - apathy and legitimacy: "6 wonders of Communism"
- Reform in the Soviet Union
  - Gorbachev 1985: perestroika, glasnost, uskorenie
- Reform in China:
  - Deng Xiiaoping (1904-1997)
  - Tiananmen Square, June 1989: Wong Weilin?
Evaluations, announcements
music: Beethoven, 9th symphony (1824) / Schiller "Ode to Joy" (1779) (text excerpt below)
- Final: 3 IDs, one source, one essay
  - What to study: history standards & pie charts
The "Fall of the Wall" (9 Nov. 1989)
- video clip: Gorby in Berlin, 7 Oct 1989
  - ideas, people, elites, culture (of involvement)

Human torches:

1963	1963	Vietnam	Buddhist monks
8 Sept.	1968	Warsaw	Ryszard Siwiec, 59
16 Jan.	1969	Prague	Jan Palach, 20
20 Jan.		Plzen	Josef Hlavaty, 25
22 Jan.		Brno	Miroslav Malinka, 33
22 Jan.		Budapest	Sándor, 17
22 Jan.		Genua	Enrico Autognotti, 58
25 Feb.		Prague	Jan Zajic, 18
Apr.		Jihlava	Evzen Plocek, 40
3 Oct.		UCSD	George Winney, 23
18 Aug.	1976	E. Germany	Oskar Bruesewitz

Schiller (1779): "Ode to Joy"
listen to Beethoven's 9th symphony (1824), with a choral singing of the poem

"Oh Friends, not these complaints!
Let us ring happier songs, and more joyful!
Joy, o spark of the gods!
…
Thy magic joins together again
all that worldly fashion has divided;
All people become brothers
Where your gentle wings rest.

As joyfully as God's suns fly
Through heaven's wondrous plan,
Follow your courses brothers
Joyfully as a knight to victory
…
Do you have any idea of your creator, o World?
Look for him above the dome of starts!
He must be above the starts!