DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

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

Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., c2003.

4 videodiscs (ca. 720 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebooks (iv, 169 p. ; 22 cm.)

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.

The great courses.

Great courses (DVD)

Political violence -- 20th century.

War and society -- History -- 20th century.

War and civilization -- History -- 20th century.

History, Modern -- 20th century.

Terrorism.

Twentieth century.

Liulevicius, Vejas G.

Dunton, Tom.

Aigret, Jaimée M.

Teaching Company.

Accompanying guides include biographical information, lecture notes and outlines, timelines, glossaries, and bibliographical references.

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

Lecturer: Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius.

DVD, region 1.

Defining Utopia and terror ; Legacy of revolutions ; Omens of conflict ; World War I ; Total war : mobilization and mass death ; Total revolution in Russia ; War's aftermath : the hinge of violence ; Communism ; Stalin ; Soviet civilization ; Fascism ; 1930s : the "low dishonest decade" -- Nazism ; Hitler ; World War II ; Nazi genocide and master plans ; Cold War ; Mao ; Cambodia and Pol Pot's killing fields ; East Germany, the Soviet Union, North Korea ; From the Berlin Wall to the Balkans ; Rwanda ; Saddam Hussein's Iraq ; Future of terror.

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