lecture 1. Framing the 20th century -- lecture 2. The opening act: World War I -- lecture 3. Framing the peace: the Paris peace treaties -- lecture 4. Intellectual foundations: Nietzsche and Freud -- lecture 5. Art and the post-war crisis of meaning -- lecture 6. Gender crisis: the women question -- lecture 7. The origins of mass society -- lecture 8. Defining mass society and its consequences -- lecture 9. Crisis of capitalism: the Great Depression -- lecture 10. Communist ideology: from Marx to Lenin -- lecture 11. The rise of fascism -- lecture 12. Communist revolution in Russia. lecture 13. The totalitarian state? Nazi Germany -- lecture 14. The totalitarian state? The Soviet Union -- lecture 15. China: the legacy of imperialism -- lecture 16. The Chinese revolution -- lecture 17. India: the legacy of imperialism -- lecture 18. India: the road to independence -- lecture 19. Mexico: the roots of revolution -- lecture 20. The Mexican revolution and its consequences -- lecture 21. Japan: the path to modernization -- lecture 22. Japan: a new imperial power -- lecture 23. The Pacific war -- lecture 24. The European war. lecture 25. The Holocaust -- lecture 26. Existentialism in post-war Europe -- lecture 27. Origins of the Cold War -- lecture 28. The Cold War in American society -- lecture 29. Science and the state in Cold War America -- lecture 30. The welfare state -- lecture 31. The process of decolonization -- lecture 32. Challenges for post-colonial societies -- lecture 33. Competing nationalisms: The Middle East -- lecture 34. Development models: Communist China -- lecture 35. Development models: democratic India -- lecture 36. The authoritarian development state: Japan -- lecture 37. The Japanese model: available for export? -- lecture 38. Latin America: dictatorship and democracy -- lecture 39. Hard cases: Africa -- lecture 40. An African case study: NIgeria -- lecture 41. A generation of protests: civil rights -- lecture 42. A generation of protests: 1968 -- lecture 43. Global women's movements -- lecture 44. The rise of fundamentalist politics -- lecture 45. Communism: from reform to collapse, 1956-90 -- lecture 46. The end of history? -- lecture 47. Globalization and its challenges -- lecture 48. A new world order?

Lectures presented by Pamela Radcliff, University of California at San Diego.

Examines the struggle over democracy and the 20th century transformation of the political, social, and economic structures of the world.

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