FIŞA DISCIPLINEI

COURSE SYLLABUS

1. DATE DESPRE PROGRAM

PROGRAM IDENTIFICATION DETAILS
1.1 Instituţia de învăţământ superior
Higher education institution
1.2 Facultatea
Faculty
1.3 Departamentul
Department
1.4 Domeniul de studii
Field of studies
1.5 Ciclul de studii
Cycle of studies (degree)
1.6 Programul de studii / calificarea
Degree program / qualification
UNIVERSITATEA DIN BUCUREŞTI
UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST
FACULTATEA DE ȘTIINȚE POLITICE
FACULTY OF POLITICAL SCIENCE
DEPARTAMENTUL DE ȘTIINȚE POLITICE, RELAȚII INTERNAȚIONALE
ŞI STUDII DE SECURITATE
DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE, INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
AND SECURITY STUDIES
ȘTIINȚE POLITICE
POLITICAL SCIENCE
LICENȚĂ
BACHELOR OF ARTS
ȘTIINȚE POLITICE ÎN LIMBA ENGLEZĂ / ȘTIINȚE POLITICE
POLITCAL SCIENCE IN ENGLISH / POLITICAL SCIENCE

2. DATE DESPRE DISCIPLINĂ

COURSE IDENTIFICATION DETAILS
2.0 Codul disciplinei
Course code SP1256
2.1 Denumirea disciplinei REVOLUTION AND SOCIAL CONFLICT IN HISTORY
Course title REVOLUŢIE ŞI CONFLICT SOCIAL ÎN ISTORIE
2.2 Titularul activităţilor de curs
Conf.univ. Dr. Victor RIZESCU
Instructor
2.3 Titularul activităţilor de seminar
Conf.univ. Dr. Victor RIZESCU
Teaching assistant
2.4 Anul de studii 2.5 Semestrul 2.6 Tipul de evaluare 2.7 Regimul disciplinei
Year
III Semester II (VI) Evaluation type E Course type
OPT

3. TIMPUL TOTAL ESTIMAT (ORE PE SEMESTRU) AL ACTIVITĂȚILOR DIDACTICE

ESTIMATED WORKLOAD (HOURS/SEMESTER)
3.1 Număr de ore pe săptămână din care 3.2 Curs 3.3 Seminar
Number of teaching hours/week
3 of which Course 2 Seminar 1
3.4 Total ore din planul de învăţământ din care 3.5 Curs 3.6 Seminar
Total number of teaching hours within the program
30 of which Course 20 Seminar 10
3.7 Total ore studiu individual 3.8 Total ore pe semestru 3.9 Număr de credite
Student workload for individual study
70
Total student workload / semester
100
ECTS
5
Studiu după manual, suport de curs, bibliografie şi notiţe
DISTRIBUTION OF INDIVIDUAL STUDY

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DISTRIBUȚIA FONDULUI DE TIMP

Individual study of texbooks, handbooks/reader, bibliography and notes

Documentare suplimentară în bibliotecă, pe platformele electronice de specialitate şi pe teren
10
Additional research (library, electronic resources, potential fieldwork)
Pregătire seminarii, teme, referate, portofolii şi eseuri
WORKLOAD

10
Homework (preparing seminar presentations, portfolios, critical essays, research papers etc.)
Tutoriat (opţional)
1
Individual consultations (optional)
Examinări
3
Evaluations / exams
Alte activităţi -
Other activities

4. PRECONDIȚII
PRECONDITIONS
4.1 De curriculum -
Curriculum-related
4.2 De competenţe -
Skills-related
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5. CONDIȚII
CONDITIONS
5.1 De desfăşurare a cursului
For running the course
5.2 De desfăşurare a seminarului
For running the seminar
Access to overhead/video projector, Internet and workstation (desktop, laptop, tablet
etc.)
Access to overhead/video projector, Internet and workstation (desktop, laptop, tablet
etc.)

6 .COMPETENȚE SPECIFICE ACUMULATE

ACQUIRED SKILLS
6.1 Competenţe profesionale
Professional skills
6.2 Competenţe transversale
Cross-cutting skills
Basic knowledge of the evolution of Marxist revolutionary culture.
Understanding the main scientific debates in the flied of the history and sociology of the
revolutionary phenomenon.
Proficiency in using library and Internet resources, reading critically various sources,
presenting logically an argument.
Capacity to expose clearly ideas to an audience, to assess critically the ideas expressed by
others and to defend a position.

7. OBIECTIVELE DISCIPLINEI
GOAL & OBJECTIVES
7.1 Obiectivul general al disciplinei
Goal
7.2 Obiective specifice
Objectives
The main objective of the course is to enable students to understand the ambivalent
nature of fundamental political and sociological ideas, as well as of large-scale historical
processes.
Another target is that of forging the ability of the students to perceive the perennial
nature of social conflict, relating its present manifestations to the past developments of
the kind.

8. CONȚINUTURI
CONTENT
Curs şi seminar Metode de predare Observaţii
Course and seminar Teaching methods Observations
1. Introduction Lecturing + dialogical 2 h course +
interaction 1 h seminar
2. Marxism: sociological view and revolutionary doctrine (I) Lecturing + dialogical 2 h course +
Readings: J. S. McLelland, A History of Western Political Thought, London, Routledge, interaction 1 h seminar
1996, chpt. 22: “Hegel and the Hegelian Context of Marxism”; chpt. 23: Marxism and
Other Socialisms”.
3. Marxism: sociological view and revolutionary doctrine (II) Lecturing + dialogical 2 h course +
Readings: Bert F. Hoselitz, “Karl Marx on Secular and Social Development: a Study in the interaction 1 h seminar
Sociology of Nineteenth Century Social Science”, in Comparative Studies in Society and
History 6: 2, 1964, pp. 142-163.
4. Revolutionary change: Marxist and anti-Marxist perspectives (I) Lecturing + dialogical 2 h course +
Readings: Eric J. Hobsbawm, The Age of Revolution, 1789-1848, New York, Vintage Books, interaction 1 h seminar
1996 [1962], chpt. 3: “The French Revolution”.
5. Revolutionary change: Marxist and anti-Marxist perspectives (II) Lecturing + dialogical 2 h course +
Readings: François Furet, “The French Revolution Revisited”, in Government and interaction 1 h seminar
Opposition 24: 3, 1989, pp. 264-282.
6. Revolutionary change: Marxist and anti-Marxist perspectives (III) Lecturing + dialogical 2 h course +
Readings: Theda Skocpol, “France, Russia, China: a Structural Analysis of Social interaction 1 h seminar
Revolutions”, in Comparative Studies in Society and History 18: 2, 1976, pp. 175-210.
7. The Left and the Right of revolutionary change (II) Lecturing + dialogical 2 h course +
Readings: Zeev Sternhell, “The ‘Anti-materialist’ Revision of Marxism as an Aspect of the interaction 1 h seminar
Rise of Fascist Ideology”, in Journal of Contemporary History 22: 3, 1987, pp. 379-400.
8. The Left and the Right of revolutionary change (III) Lecturing + dialogical 2 h course +
Readings: Andrew C. Janos, “What Was Communism? A Retrospective in Comparative interaction 1 h seminar
Analysis”, in Communist and Postcommunist Studies 29: 1, 1996, pp. 1-24.
9. Revolution on the peripheries: world communism and the Third World (I) Lecturing + dialogical 2 h course +
Readings: Theda Skocpol, “Old Regimes Legacies and Communist Revolutions in Russia interaction 1 h seminar
and China”, in Social Forces 55: 2, 1976, pp. 284-315.
10. Revolution on the peripheries: world communism and the Third World (II) Lecturing + dialogical 2 h course +
Readings: Jeff Goodwin, “Old Regimes and Revolutions in the Second and Third Worlds: a interaction 1 h seminar
Comparative Perspective”, in Social Science History 18: 4, 1994, pp. 575-604.
Bibliografie/Bibliography
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Chirot, Daniel, Social Change in a Peripheral Society. The Creation of a Balkan Colony, New York, Academic Press, 1976 (and in
Romanian translation).
----------, Modern Tyrants. The Power and Prevalence of Evil in Our Times, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1996 [1994].
Foran, John, Taking Power. On the Origins of Third World Revolutions, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Foran, John, ed., Theorizing Revolutions, London Routledge, 1997 (and in Romanian translation).
Furet, François, Reflecţii asupra Revoluţiei Franceze, trad. de Mircea Vasilescu, Bucureşti, Humanitas, 1992.
Hobsbawm, Eric J., Primitive Rebels, New York, Norton, 1965 [1959].
Kolakowski, Leszek, Main Currents of Marxism. The Founders, the Golden Age, the Breakdown, transl. by. P. S. Falla, New York,
Norton, 2005 [1978] (and in Romanian translation).
Moore, Barrington, Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy. Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World, Boston,
Beacon Press, 1966.
Pipes, Richard, A Concise History of the Russian Revolution, New York, Knopf, 1995 (and in Romanian translation).
Porter, Roy and Mikulas Teich, eds., Revolution in History, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1986.
Skocpol, Theda, States and Social Revolutions. A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia and China, Cambridge, Cambridge
University Press, 1979.
Tilly, Charles, European Revolutions, 1492-1992, Oxford, Blackwell, 1993 (and in Romanian translation).

9. SCURTĂ DESCRIERE*
BRIEF DESCRIPTION*
* COROBORAREA CONȚINUTURILOR DISCIPLINEI CU AŞTEPTĂRILE REPREZENTANȚILOR COMUNITĂȚII EPISTEMICE, ASOCIAȚIILOR PROFESIONALE ŞI ANGAJATORI
REPREZENTATIVI DIN DOMENIUL AFERENT PROGRAMULUI / CORRELATION BETWEEN THE CONTENT OF THE COURSE AND THE NEEDS/EXPECTATIONS OF THE
EPISTEMIC COMMUNITY, PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION S AND/OR SIGNIFICANT EMPLOYERS RELEVANT FOR THE PROGRAM
The course gives an introduction to the topic of revolutionary breaks in world history, by placing it against the background of the
larger topics of social stratification and social conflicts. The ambivalence of revolutionary change is underlined, by disclosing it as
both a vehicle of emancipation and a source of political authoritarianism. In turn, revolutionary culture is approached by focusing,
again, on its intrinsic double-sidedness.
10. EVALUARE
EVALUATION
Tip activitate 10.1 Criterii de evaluare 10.2 Metode de evaluare 10.3 Pondere din nota finală
Activity Evaluation criteria Evaluation methods Per cent of final grade
10.4 Curs Coverage of the assigned Oral exam. 60%
Course bibliography and of the
additional information
taught.
10.5 Seminar Coverage of the assigned Essay on the basis of the 40%
Seminar bibliography. assigned and supplementary
bibliography.
10.6 Standard minim de performanţă Final grade 5 (five)
Threshold for the acquisition of the ECTS credits
Students should be aware of the Department’s policy of academic integrity: cheating, falsification, forgery, multiple submission,
plagiarism, complicity and computer misuse will automatically trigger a failing grade for the respective course. According to the
provisions of the Charter of the University of Bucharest, students found guilty of plagiarism can be expelled from the University
without the right to appeal.

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