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Utopia and terror in the 20th century / Part 1 [Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius] ; Teaching Company ; producer, Jaimée M. Aigret ; director, Tom Dunton.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: 8313 | Teaching CompanySeries: Great courses (DVD)Publication details: Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., ©2003.Description: 4 videodiscs (approximately 720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebooks (iv, 169 pages ; 22 cm)Content type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
ISBN:
  • 1565856759
  • 9781565856752
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 303.62
LOC classification:
  • JC328.6 .L58 2003x
Contents:
pt. I. lecture 1. Defining Utopia and terror ; lecture 2. Legacy of revolutions ; lecture 3. Omens of conflict ; lecture 4. World War I ; lecture 5. Total war : mobilization and mass death ; lecture 6. Total revolution in Russia ; lecture 7. War's aftermath : the hinge of violence ; lecture 8. Communism ; lecture 9. Stalin ; lecture 10. Soviet civilization ; lecture 11. Fascism ; lecture 12. 1930s : the "low dishonest decade" -- pt. II. lecture 13. Nazism ; lecture 14. Hitler ; lecture 15. World War II ; lecture 16. Nazi genocide and master plans ; lecture 17. Cold War ; lecture 18. Mao ; lecture 19. Cambodia and Pol Pot's killing fields ; lecture 20. East Germany, the Soviet Union, North Korea ; lecture 21. From the Berlin Wall to the Balkans ; lecture 22. Rwanda ; lecture 23. Saddam Hussein's Iraq ; lecture 24. Future of terror.
Production credits:
  • Editor, Jaimée M. Aigret ; content supervisor, Phil Burnham.
Lecturer: Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius.Summary: Examines the fundamental question of our times: why was the 20th century so violent? It looks at the ideologies that promised utopias and total solutions to social problems and relates the terrible human toll of attempts to realize these ideas.
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Accompanying guides include biographical information, lecture notes and outlines, timelines, glossaries, and bibliographical references.

pt. I. lecture 1. Defining Utopia and terror ; lecture 2. Legacy of revolutions ; lecture 3. Omens of conflict ; lecture 4. World War I ; lecture 5. Total war : mobilization and mass death ; lecture 6. Total revolution in Russia ; lecture 7. War's aftermath : the hinge of violence ; lecture 8. Communism ; lecture 9. Stalin ; lecture 10. Soviet civilization ; lecture 11. Fascism ; lecture 12. 1930s : the "low dishonest decade" -- pt. II. lecture 13. Nazism ; lecture 14. Hitler ; lecture 15. World War II ; lecture 16. Nazi genocide and master plans ; lecture 17. Cold War ; lecture 18. Mao ; lecture 19. Cambodia and Pol Pot's killing fields ; lecture 20. East Germany, the Soviet Union, North Korea ; lecture 21. From the Berlin Wall to the Balkans ; lecture 22. Rwanda ; lecture 23. Saddam Hussein's Iraq ; lecture 24. Future of terror.

Editor, Jaimée M. Aigret ; content supervisor, Phil Burnham.

Lecturer: Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius.

Examines the fundamental question of our times: why was the 20th century so violent? It looks at the ideologies that promised utopias and total solutions to social problems and relates the terrible human toll of attempts to realize these ideas.

DVD, region 1.

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