Utopia and Terror in the 20th Century

Offered By: The Great Courses Plus

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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