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Europe and Western Civilization in the Modern Age, Part 3 of 4
Europe and Western Civilization in the Modern Age Part 3 of 4 Author:Childers, Thomas Course 823 of The Great Courses. — Part 3 of 4, includes 6 cassettes and course guidebook. — Professor Thomas Childers, University of Pennsylvania. — This series takes the listener on a journey through the history of modern Europe, from 1750. In the hours of lectures, the listener learns about all of the major events of this era, along with fasc... more »inating details that make the story come alive.
Includes 12 lectures on cassettes.
Titles; The International System, 1871-1890; The Breakdown of the International System and the Slide Toward War; Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict in the Multi-national Empires of Central and Eastern Europe; The July Crisis and the Outbreak of War; The War to End All Wars - The Experience of the Trenches; The Treaty of Versailles and the Failed Peace; The Bolshevik Revolution; Civil War and the Establishment of the Soviet State; The Soviet System Under Stalin; Mussolini and the Emergence of Italian Fascism; The Democracies in Crisis; Hitler and the Rise of Nazism in Germany.« less