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Utopia and Terror in the 20th Century

Offered By: The Great Courses Plus

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Course Description

Overview

<p>Join an award-winning professor of history to examine a full century of our most violent history with the goal of understanding the roots of terror in order to prevent even greater horrors in the centuries to come.</p>

Syllabus

  • By This Professor
  • 01: Defining Utopia and Terror
  • 02: The Legacy of Revolutions
  • 03: Omens of Conflict
  • 04: World War I
  • 05: Total War-Mobilization and Mass Death
  • 06: Total Revolution in Russia
  • 07: War's Aftermath-The Hinge of Violence
  • 08: Communism
  • 09: Stalin
  • 10: Soviet Civilization
  • 11: Fascism
  • 12: The 1930's-"The Low Dishonest Decade"
  • 13: Nazism
  • 14: Hitler
  • 15: World War II
  • 16: Nazi Genocide and Master Plans
  • 17: The Cold War
  • 18: Mao
  • 19: Cambodia and Pol Pot's Killing Fields
  • 20: East Germany, the Soviet Union, North Korea
  • 21: From the Berlin Wall to the Balkans
  • 22: Rwanda
  • 23: Saddam Hussein's Iraq
  • 24: The Future of Terror

Taught by

Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius

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