Liulevicius, Vejas G.
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.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 909 LIULiulevicius, Vejas G.
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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
3 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909 UTOCall number: DVD 909 UTO PART 1
Call number: DVD 909 UTO PART 2
Contents: Disc 1: The other Europe: deep roots of diversity -- Formative migrations: Mongols to Germans -- Clashing Golden Ages, 1389-1772 -- The great crime of empires: Poland divided -- The origins of nationalism, 1815-1863 -- The Age of empires, 1863-1914 -- disc 2: Jewish life in the shtetl -- World War I: destruction and rebirth -- From democrats to dictators, 1918-1939 -- Caught between Hitler and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: DVD 947 HISSummary: Professor Liulevicius delves deeply into the cultures of this region-the 20 nations that stretch from the Baltic to the Black Seas. This course presents the grand sweep of all this history and clues you in on the context necessary to understand today's world. He also gives you specific, unique insights that are fascinating in their own right-and seldom mentioned in the history books.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Great Courses 2015