Williamsburg Regional Library

A history of Eastern Europe, Professor Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius

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A history of Eastern Europe

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Professor Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius

Great courses. History. Modern history

Presents 24 30-minute lectures discussing the history of Eastern Europe from the Mongol migrations to the current crisis in the Ukraine

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 -- Jewish life in the Shtetl -- World War I: destruction and rebirth -- From democrats to dictators, 1918-1939 -- Caught between Hitler and Stalin -- World War II: the unfamiliar Eastern front -- The Holocaust and the Nazi racial empire -- Postwar flight and expulsion -- Behind the Iron Curtain, 1945-1953 -- Forest Brothers: Baltic partisan warfare -- Life in Totalitarian captivity, 1953-1980 -- Power of the powerless: revolts and unrest -- Solidarity in Poland: Walesa's Union -- Toppling idols: the communist collapse -- The turn: the post-Soviet 1990s -- Yugoslav wars: Milosevic and Balkan strife -- The new Europe: joining NATO and the EU -- The unfolding Ukraine-Russia crisis -- Eastern Europe at the crossroads

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