On April 23rd you will historically contextualize three essays used as primary sources. This will require you to place the films in dialogue with one another, analyze how they are asking similar questions (if coming to different answers), and articulating their theses. Your analysis should make use of the Hobsbawm text (and potentially additional texts) in order to situate the essays, and their themes, historically.

Milan Kundera, “The Tragedy of Central Europe,” 1984
Andrei Sakharov, “Progress, Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom, 1968
Aleksadr Solzhenitsyn, “Address at Harvard University, 1978