Questionnaire
1. Multiple-choice questionnaire:
Questions of synthesis
1. Write an essay (approximately 200 words) that characterize the most important social classes living in the nineteenth-century cities and causes of conflict between them.
2. Make, in the form of a report containing about 200 words, a comparative analysis of programs of nineteenth-century labour parties and contemporary left-wing parties that you know. Point out the common elements of political programs chosen by you in the past and today.
Questions of synthesis
Repeat the questions of synthesis for students with some suggestions of topics that teachers.
1. Write an essay (approximately 200 words) that characterize the most important social classes living in the nineteenth-century cities and causes of conflict between them.
Students should briefly describe the economic situation and living conditions of the individual social classes, typical for an industrial city in the nineteenth century: the bourgeoisie, the intelligentsia, the petite bourgeoisie and the workers. Students should notice the contrast between their position, genesis of conflicts and social revolutions. The most important issues:
- Origins of formation of the individual classes of urban society
- Differences in access to civil rights depending on the social origins
- Differences in political and economic situation, as the seeds of social conflicts
- Political and economic discrimination of workers, as a factor in the formation of the first labour parties
- Social and economic contrasts as a cause of formation of the radical ideologies, such as communism.
2. Make, in the form of a report containing about 200 words, a comparative analysis of programs of nineteenth-century labour parties and contemporary left-wing parties that you know. Point out the common elements of political programs chosen by you in the past and today.
Students should make a brief characterization of known programs of labour parties in the nineteenth century and selected contemporary left-wing groups. Then students should comment on the similarities and differences in the demands of left-wing parties in the nineteenth century and today by comparing individually political, economic and social postulates. The most important issues:
- Characteristics of the political program of the labour movement in the nineteenth century
- Characteristics of selected contemporary left-wing party
- Demands of the labour movement in the nineteenth century regarding the civil and social rights; and the realization of these demands in modern democratic systems
- Demands for equality of citizens that has not been realized in all European countries and repeated by the modern left-wing parties
- Elements of the socialist parties programs in the nineteenth century and their contemporary successors, which have given rise to controversy in the current political debate.