Great courses (Compact disc)

"Course no. 8364."

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

Compact discs

In two containers (20 cm)

Teaching Company: 8364 (audio CDs: PC8364A; containers: IC8364A-01, IC8364A-02; course guidebook: PB8364A)

Unabridged

Lecturer: Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius, professor at University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Volume 1, disc 1, lecture 1.

Other Europe: deep roots of diversity --

Disc 1, lecture 2.

Formative migrations: Mongols to Germans --

Disc 2, lecture 3.

Clashing Golden Ages, 1389-1772 --

Disc 2, lecture 4.

Great crime of empires: Poland divided --

Disc 3, lecture 5.

Origins of nationalism, 1815-1863 --

Disc 3, lecture 6.

Age of empires, 1863-1914 --

Disc 4, lecture 7.

Jewish life in the shtetl --

Disc 4, lecture 8.

World War I: destruction and rebirth --

Disc 5, lecture 9.

From democrats to dictators, 1918-1939 --

Disc 5, lecture 10

Caught between Hitler and Stalin --

Disc 6, lecture 11.

World War II: the unfamiliar Eastern front --

Disc 6, lecture 12.

Holocaust and the Nazi racial empire --

Volume 2, disc 7, lecture 13.

Postwar flight and expulsion --

Disc 7, lecture 14.

Behind the Iron Curtain, 1945-1953 --

Disc 8, lecture 15.

Forest Brothers: Baltic partisan warfare --

Disc 8, lecture 16.

Life in Totalitarian captivity, 1953-1980 --

Disc 9, lecture 17.

Power of the powerless: revolts and unrest --

Disc 9, lecture 18.

Solidarity in Poland: Walesa's Union --

Disc 10, lecture 19.

Toppling idols: the communist collapse --

Disc 10, lecture 20.

Turn: the post-Soviet 1990s --

Disc 11, lecture 21.

Yugoslav wars: Milosevic and Balkan strife --

Disc 11, lecture 22.

New Europe: joining NATO and the EU --

Disc 12, lecture 23.

Unfolding Ukraine-Russia crisis --

Disc 12, lecture 24.

Eastern Europe at the crossroads