Vejas G Liulevicius

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1) Turning points in modern history

Author

Liulevicius, Vejas G

Series

Great courses

Pub. Date

[2013]

Language

English

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"Turning Points in Modern History takes you on a far-reaching journey around the globe-- from China to the Americas to New Zealand-- to shed light on how two dozen of the top discoveries, inventions, political upheavals, and ideas since 1400 have shaped the modern world. Taught by award-winning history professor Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, these 24 thought-provoking lectures tell the amazing story of how life...

2) Utopia and terror in the 20th century

Author

Liulevicius, Vejas G

Series

Great courses

Pub. Date

[2003]

Language

English

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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.

3) World War I, the "Great War"

Author

Liulevicius, Vejas G

Series

Great courses

Pub. Date

[2006]

Language

English

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University of Tennessee professor Vejas Liulevicius delivers lectures for a course on the First World War, which was touched off by a terrorist act in Bosnia and quickly expanded far beyond the expectations of those involved. It became the first "total war", a conflict involving entire societies mobilized to wage unrestrained war, devoting all their wealth, industries, institutions, and the lives of their citizens to victory at any price. The cost...

4) A history of Eastern Europe: the other Europe: deep roots of diversity

Pub. Date

2016.

Language

English

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Begin your course with a geographic overview of Eastern Europe, a region that begins at the Baltic Sea in the north and spans 20 countries to the Black Sea in the south. Here, Professor Liulevicius introduces you to the key themes of this course: Eastern Europe's remarkable diversity, it shifting borders, and its separateness from-and connections with-the West.