During the spring semester of the academic year 2021/2022 the Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest held a course on Fascism and its manifestation.
This course was held for the students of the Master in History who are qualifying to become history high school teachers, and was aimed to promote a broader knowledge of Fascism, a phenomenon that in Hungarian university education is generally taught with a strict chronological approach. Therefore, the aim of the course and its seminars was to give to the students a deeper understanding of the social, economic, and ideological effects of Fascism, an ideology that affected the lives of the 20th century Europeans as well as those of the next generations of Europeans.
The course’s seminars addressed topics such as the party state and its practical manifestations in everyday life, the corporate state, the relationship between the Church and the State, the gender question, youth and youth training in the fascist style, the health care, eugenics, racism, and anti-Semitism, the mafia problem, the literature and press in a dictatorship, the architectural and urban planning issues in a dictatorship and nation building issues.
Each seminar focused on a specific topic, as described in the following timetable:
10 February 2022
Introduction to the course (lecturer: Juhász Balázs)
17 February 2022
Politics: the party state and its practical manifestations in everyday life (lecturer: Juhász Balázs)
24 February 2022
Organization of the economy: the corporate state (lecturer: Juhász Balázs)
3 March 2022
The relationship between the Church and the State (lecturer: Juhász Balázs)
10March 2022
The gender question (lecturer: Ordasi Zsuzsa)
17 March 2022
Youth and youth training in the fascist style (lecturer: Juhász Balázs)
24 March 2022
Health care, eugenics, racism, and anti-Semitism (lecturer: Juhász Balázs)
31 March 2022
The mafia and its associates (lecturer: Andreides Gábor)
7 April 2022
Literature and press in a dictatorship (lecturer: Szkárosi Endre)
21 April 2022
Architectural and urban planning issues in a dictatorship (lecturer: Ordasi Zsuzsa)
28 April 2022
How party-driven was art in Italy? How much freedom did the artist have? (lecturer: Ordasi Zsuzsa)
5 May 2022
Nation building from words to sports (lecturer: Andreides Gábor)
12-13 May 2022
Oral exam
