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- Lectures on Twentieth Century Europe - Main
- Lecture 1: On the Intellectual History of Modern Europe
- Renaissance Resources
- Classical World Resources
- Enlightenment Resources
- Einstein Resources
- Newton Resources
- French Revolution Resources
- Napoleon Resources
- World War One Resources
- Lecture 2: Nietzsche, Freud and the Thrust Toward Modernism (1)
- Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too
Human (1879)
- Nietzsche Resources
- Søren Kierkegaard, 1813-1855
- Søren Kierkegaard, The Present
Age (1846)
- Stefan
Zweig on Nietzsche
- Nietzsche, Dionysus and Apollo
- Richard Wagner, 1813-1883
- Lecture 3: Nietzsche, Freud and the Thrust Toward Modernism (2)
- Friedrich Nietzsche, "The Parable of the Madman"
- Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821-1881
- Sigmund Freud, 1856-1939
Sigmund Freud, Civilization and its Discontents, 1930
(excerpt)
- Lecture 4: The Great War and Modern Memory -- currently editing
- Lecture 5: The Russian Revolution (1)
- Russian Revolution Resources
- The Abdication of Nicholas II (1917)
- Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin), 1870-1924
- Lecture 6: The Russian Revolution: Red
October and the Bolshevik Coup (2)
- Lenin's "April Theses" (1917)
- Lenin on the Dual Power (1917)
- Lecture 7: The Aftermath of the Bolshevik Revolution
- The Decree on Peace, November 1917
- The Dissolution of the Constituent
Assembly (1918)
- Origins of the CHEKA
(1917)
- The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
(1918)
- Stalin and the "Cult of Personality"
- Lenin's "Testament" (1922)
- Lecture 8: The Age of Anxiety: Europe in the 1920s (1)
- British War Poets
- Paul Valery's The Crisis of the Mind (1919)
- Paul Tillich, The Courage To Be
(1952)
- The Lost Generation of 1914
- James Joyce, 1882-1941
- D. H. Lawrence, 1885-1930
- Lecture 9: The Age of Anxiety, Europe in the 1920s (2)
- Ortega y Gasset's Revolt of the Masses
(1930)
- Oswald Spengler, 1880-1936
- Mussolini, Doctrine of Fascism (1932)
- Georges Sorel, "Letter to Daniel Halevy"
(1907)
- Adolf Hitler, 1889-1945
- Lecture 10: The Age of Totalitarianism: Stalin and Hitler
- Waldemar Gurian on
Totalitarianism (1953)
- Joseph Stalin, 1879-1953
Maxim Gorky, "The Craftsmen of Culture" (1935)- Khrushchev's
"Secret Speech" (1956)
- The Hitler Youth (1938)
- Lecture 11: Hitler and World War II
- Neville Chamberlain on "Appeasement"
(1939)
The
Münich Pact (September 29, 1938)
The Nazi-Soviet Pact (1939)
The Wannsee Protocol, January 20, 1942
- The Special Mission of Himmler's S.S.
(1937)
Holocaust Resources
- Lecture 12: The Existentialist Frame of Mind
- Franz Kafka, 1883-1924
- Jean-Paul Sartre, 1905-1980
- Albert Camus, 1913-1960
- Blaise Pascal, 1623-1662
- Jean Jacques Rousseau, 1712-1778
- Lecture 13: George Orwell and "The Last Man in Europe"
- Thomas More, 1478-1535
- George Orwell, 1903-1950
George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four
- Lecture 14: The Origins of the Cold War
- The (Berlin) Potsdam Conference, July
17-August 2, 1945
- Wilson's "Fourteen Point Plan"
(1918)
- Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain Speech" (1946)
- George
Kennan,
The Sources of Soviet Conduct (1946)
- The Truman Doctrine (1947)
- The Marshall Plan (1947)
- Lecture 15: 1968 -- The Year of the Barricades
- Lecture 16: 1989 -- The Walls Came Tumbling Down
- Nikita Khrushchev, 1894-1971
- Leonid Brezhnev, 1906-1982
- Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
- Perestroika Defined (1987)
- Lech Walesa
- Wojciech Jaruzelski
- Todor Zhivkov, 1911-1998
- Nicolae Ceausescu, 1918-1989
- Vaclav Havel
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