<p>Taught by Professor Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, this course explores the communist movement at its zenith between the 1920s and 1970s, covering the regimes of Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union, Mao Zedong in China, Ho Chi Minh in Vietnam, and Marxist-Leninist governments in Eastern Europe and elsewhere. At the time, communism looked like the unstoppable wave of the future.</p>
Overview
Syllabus
- By This Professor
- 01: Joseph Stalin: The Soviet Man of Steel
- 02: The Stalinist Gulag State
- 03: Pilgrims to Utopia: Foreigners in the USSR
- 04: World War II: Steel Tempered in the Furnace
- 05: American Communists: Beyond the Red Scare
- 06: The Soviet Elephant and the Secret Speech
- 07: Building East Germany, Albania, and Romania
- 08: Mao Zedong and Communist China
- 09: China’s Cultural Revolution
- 10: Dynastic Communism in North Korea
- 11: Ho Chi Minh and Vietnamese Nationalism
- 12: Pol Pot and Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge
Taught by
Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius
