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First came Poland, then East Germany, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Romania. Unrest in the Soviet Union followed — in the Baltic republics of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, and in the republics of Azerbaijan and Armenia.
By Carol B. Shiney Kansan staff writer
Soviet change ahead of texts
He said he did not think events would stabilize soon.
"I personally think that the ethnic nationality problems are very serious and will remain a problem in the future," he said.
Because of the sweeping changes across Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, professors who teach classes about those areas are having trouble getting textbooks that are not outdated.
"None of the textbook publishers are able to keep up with what's going on," said Norman Saul, professor of history and Soviet and East European studies.
He said that of the books he had used about Gorbachev and glasnost
'For the more recent things, I may duplicate material out of Time or Newsweek — whatever I find is best
was out of date and that he had not fully resolved the problem of finding texts yet.
None of the textbook publishers are able to keep up with what's going on.'
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"I'm sure there are cases where new information comes to light from the opening of archives," he said.
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for classroom purposes," Saul said. Many textbooks may have to be rewritten, he said.
The Soviet government archives contain one-secret documents.
Roy Laird, professor of politics and Soviet and East European studies, said that a textbook in any field was always outdated because the world
"As the Soviet Union has said, 'We haven't had a history; we've only had propaganda,'" Saul said.
"I suspect that this enormous state of flux that is going on in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe is going to change for the next several years," Laird said.
By the time the book gets in the classroom, it's been at least two years since the author put his pen to paper, he said.
Bill Shayton, Lawrence graduate student majoring in Soviet and East European studies, said. "The teacher told the class today that it would not be fruittable to try to locate a text and pay for it because of all the change."
"Despite the headlines, things don't change all that fast," Laird said.
However, he said he believed 1969 was the most important year in this century.
Slayton is taking a Soviet history course, and he is auditing an East
"So much has happened in the last six to ten months that trying to come up with a textbook is almost impossible," Slayton said.
He said that a text published a year earlier could provide a foundation for a course but that his professors had elected to try to use resources such as newspaper and magazine articles.
European geography course.
Jarosław Piekalkiewicz, professor of political science and Soviet and East European studies, said theories that people had about the Soviet Union had to be adjusted in some drastic ways.
"I think it does place more importance on the ability of the instructor to get current information, digest it and teach it," Slayton said.
"All the textbooks are not really relevant," he said.
Pleklakiewicz has written his own book, a manuscript that has not yet been published, he said, because it is so unusual.
Soviet changes catch KU profs off guard
"I've taught the course for some 30 years," said Laird, professor of political science and Soviet and East European studies. "Until the last two years, I was confident I knew how the Soviet system worked. Now I don't know; I don't think Gorbachev knows."
By Carol B. Shiney Kansan staff writer
When Roy Laird walked into his Soviet foreign policy class yesterday, he told his students that it was a class of chaos.
With all the recent political changes in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, professors like Laird are having to adapt to the chaos.
Laird chose perestroika as the topic for his graduate seminar.
He emphasized that the world was at one of the major turning points in human history.
"We have to add or change as we go along, day to day," he said.
"Only God can know how that's going to come out," he said. "These
are terribly exciting times."
Norman Saul, professor of history and Soviet and East European Studies, said that he has had to do a lot of updating and reorganizing to keep up with all of the changes in the Soviet Union.
"Certainly what's happening has made it a big job of keeping up — the reading one has to do, and watching everyone abreast of the events," he said.
He said that he reorganized his history of the Soviet Union class to leave more time at the end of the semester for current events. He also changed the course to allow more time for discussion.
a year to get a new course approved.
"I suppose what we really need are new courses that focus on the changes," he said.
"When everything was stagged, one didn't have to do that," Saul said. One danger of spending so much time on current events, he said, is that students might be exposed to less history.
"What's happened in Eastern Europe has caught everybody by surprise," he said. "Nobody predicted it. . . The University is strapped for resources to deal with it."
Saul said that outside discussions, such as the Soviet brown bag lunches, helped by giving students opportunities to talk with speakers talk about current events.
However, Saul said, it takes about
"I think that's probably one of the best ways to do it — add these kind of opportunities for students," he said.
Leslie Dienes, professor of Soviet and East European studies and geography, said that his geography of Eastern Europe class also had to adapt to the change.
At the Soviet brown bag lunches, given on Tuesdays, speakers discuss topics such as the economy and relations with Eastern Europe.
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"it's not just physical geography," he said. "Geography is like history, the relationship deals with the relationship, the man's relationship with his environment."
Jaroslaw Piekalkiewicz, professor of political science and Soviet and East European studies, said that the changes were day by day and that people had to adjust to them accordingly.
He taught a course on Eastern Europe last semester.
"Each time I would finish a country, something would happen," he said. "Sometimes I would be ahead, sometimes I would be wrong."
Although spring semester enrollment figures are not yet available, most of the professors agreed that enrollment in Soviet and East European studies courses had increased. There are 49 graduate majors in Soviet and East European studies, eight of them new.
"We've experienced a surge of enrollment over the past seven years, beginning in 83, that predates the change," said William C. Fletcher, professor in Soviet and East European studies.
However, he said that the current increase could be due to interest sparked by the recent changes.
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