Weekly Video Lectures
Select a link below to watch the video lecture and slide show for each week of class. I recommend that you watch the lectures at the start of the week, so you have context for our primary sources.
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Week 1 Lecture: Europe at the Fin-de-Siècle and in WWI
Week 2, Lecture 1: Russia’s New Century: Revolution and Civil War
Week 2, Lecture 2: Society Between the Wars: Western and Central Europe in the 1920s
Week 3, Lecture 1: Society Between the Wars: The Soviet Union in the 1920s
Week 3, Lecture 2: Weimar Germany and the Spread of Fascism
Week 4 Lecture: Building the Stalinist Utopia
Week 5 Lecture 1: Stalinism at Its High Point
Week 5, Lecture 2: WWII: The Western Front and the Holocaust
Week 6, Lecture 1: WWII: The Eastern Front, the Homefront, and the War’s End
Week 6, Lecture 2: Rebuilding Europe and Uniting the West
Week 7 Lecture: Human Rights and the Cold War
Week 8 Lecture: The “Thaw” in the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc
Week 9 Lecture: The Era of “Developed Socialism”
Week 10 Lecture: Decolonization
Week 11 Lecture: Western Europe from Boom to Bust
