LECTURE #1 TRADITIONAL WESTERN EUROPEAN SOCIETY 1000 TO 1500 I. A PERIODIZATION OF HUMAN HISTORY. A. COURSE THEME MODERNIZATION. B. COLLAPSE AND CHAOS, 500 1000. C. GOALS OF TRADITIONAL SOCIETY. II. CREATING STABILITY AND SECURITY. A. ECONOMY THE MANORIAL ECONOMY. B. SOCIETY THE THREE ESTATES/ORDERS. C. POLITICS FEUDALISM. D. WORLD VIEW THE GREAT CHAIN OF BEING.
LECTURE #2 THE CHALLENGES TO TRADITIONAL WESTERN EUROPEAN SOCIETY 1500 TO 1750 I. TRADITIONAL SOCIETY FADES. A. AN INCREASINGLY RAPID PACE OF CHANGE. B. REACTION TO THE CHANGES. II. SOCIO-ECONOMIC CHALLENGES. A. THE ECONOMY COMMERCIAL REVOLUTION. B. THE SOCIETY BOURGEOISIE AND NOBLES. III. POLITICAL CHALLENGES, 1500 1750. A. ABSOLUTISM AND LOUIS XIV (r. 1660 1715). B. DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTIONS. IV. INTELLECTUAL AND RELIGIOUS CHALLENGES. A. PROTESTANT REFORMATION (1500s). B. THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION (1500 1700). C. THE ENLIGHTENMENT (1650s 1780s).
LECTURE #3 THE FRENCH REVOLUTION: POLITICAL AND SOCIAL MODERNIZATION 1789 TO 1815 I. THE TWO STAGES OF REVOLUTIONS. II. DESTROYING THE OLD. A. ESTATES GENERAL. B. DECLARATION OF THE RIGHTS OF MAN. C. FORMATION OF THE REPUBLIC. D. THE EXECUTION OF CITIZEN LOUIS CAPET. III. CREATING THE NEW. A. MAXIMILIEN ROBESPIERRE (1758 1794). B. THE REIGN OF TERROR. C. THE THERMIDORIAN REACTION. D. NAPOLEON BONAPARTE (r. 1799 1815).
LECTURE #4 THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION: ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL MODERNIZATION 1750 TO 1850 I. THE NATURE OF THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION. II. THE GUILD SYSTEM, 1000 1500. A. LOW DEMAND. B. LIMITING SUPPLY. III. THE DEVELOPMENT OF A FACTORY SYSTEM. A. THE COMMERCIAL REVOLUTION, 1500 1750. B. COTTAGE INDUSTRIES, 1500 1750. C. THE FACTORY SYSTEM, 1750 1850. III. SOCIAL CHANGES.
LECTURE #5 LIBERALISM: THE WESTERN MODEL OF MODERNIZATION, 1815 TO 1848 I. ADAM SMITH AND FREE ENTERPRISE. A. MERCANTILISM, 1500 to 1750. B. THE WEALTH OF NATIONS (1776). C. INDIVIDUALS COMPETING IN A FREE MARKET. D. SELF-INTEREST VS. SOCIAL NEED. E. DEISM AND THE INVISIBLE HAND. II. CLASSICAL LIBERALISM. A. AS A SOCIO-ECONOMIC IDEAL. B. AS A POLITICAL IDEAL. C. THE LIBERAL ETHIC.
LECTURE #6 THE LIBERAL REALITY AND ITS CRITICS 1815 TO 1914 I. STAY THE COURSE. IT STILL WORKS. A. THE REALITY OF CLASSICAL LIBERALISM. B. THOMAS MALTHUS (1766 1834). C. DAVID RICARDO (1772 1823). II. NOTHING IS WRONG. ALL IS AS IT SHOULD BE. A. TOUGH LIBERALISM. B. SOCIAL DARWINISM. III. TWEAK THE IDEALS TO DEAL WITH PROBLEMS. A. NATURE VS. NURTURE. B. MODERN LIBERALISM. IV. LIBERALISM IS BAD. FIND SOMETHING NEW. A. THE SOCIALIST CRITIQUE. B. DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM. C. MARXISM AND KARL MARX (1818-1883).
LECTURE #7 WESTERN IMPERIALISM IN THE 19 TH CENTURY I. THE POWER OF MODERN WESTERN SOCIETY. A. THE SECOND WAVE OF IMPERIALISM. B. THE DRIVING FORCES BEHIND IMPERIALISM. II. THE COLONIZATION OF SOUTH AFRICA. A. CAPE COLONY. B. CECIL RHODES (1853 1902). C. KING LOBENGULA (1845 1894). D. THE BURDEN OF WHITE MEN. III. STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES OF MODERN WESTERN SOCIETY. A. ECONOMIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL POWER. B. CULTURAL BLINDNESS AND HUBRIS.
LECTURE #8 GERMAN UNIFICATION AND THE FIRST WORLD WAR 1871 TO 1918 I. THE UNIFICATION OF GERMANY, 1862-1871. A. THE CONGRESS OF VIENNA, 1815. B. GERMANY DIVIDED. C. OTTO VON BISMARCK (1815 1898). D. FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR (1870 1871). II. SETTING THE STAGE FOR WAR, 1871 1914. A. KAISER WILHELM II (r. 1888 1918). B. GERMAN INDUSTRIAL MIGHT. C. NAVAL ARMSRACE. D. DIPLOMATIC FAILURE AND THE SCHLIEFFEN PLAN (1905). III. STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES OF MODERN WESTERN SOCIETY. A.THE GREAT WAR, 1914 1918. B. MOBILIZATION OF POWER INDUSTRIAL WAR. C. WAR AS A DIPLOMATIC TOOL COMPETITION.
LECTURE #9 TRADITIONAL RUSSIAN SOCIETY 1850 TO 1917 I. THE NATURE OF TRADITIONAL SOCIETY IN 1850. A. THE SOCIO- ECONOMIC SYSTEM. B. POLITICAL SYSTEM. C. RELIGION AND THE WORLD VIEW. II. CHANGES IN THE LATE 19 TH CENTURY. A. THE CRIMEAN WAR, 1853 1856. B. SOCIO- ECONOMIC CHANGE. C. POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS CHANGE. III. THE REVOLUTIONS OF 1917.
LECTURE #10 THE SOVIET UNION AND THE RUSSIAN MODEL 1921 TO 1945 I. THE IDEAL COMMUNIST SOCIETY. II. ARGUING THE MODEL. A. THE NEW ECONOMIC POLICY, 1921 1928. B. LEON TROTSKY AND THE LEFTISTS. C. NIKOLAI BUKHARIN AND THE RIGHTISTS. D. ONE MAN REMAINS- JOSEPH STALIN. III. THE RUSSIAN MODEL OF MODERNIZATION. A. THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC SYSTEM. B. THE POLITICAL SYSTEM. C. THE WORLD VIEW.
LECTURE #11 REVOLT AGAINST MODERNITY: FASCISM AND THE SECOND WORLD WAR 1920s to 1945 I. POST-WORLD WAR I DISILLUSIONMENT. A. LIBERAL RESPONSE. B. SOCIALIST RESPONSE. II. FASCISM AS A MODEL OF MODERNIZATION. A. THE IDEALS OF FASCISM. B. OPPOSITION TO LIBERALISM AND SOCIALISM. III. GERMAN FASCISM REVOLTS. A. FAILURE OF THE WESTERN MODEL. B. THE SECOND WORLD WAR, 1939 1945. C. THE HOLOCAUST.
LECTURE #12 THE BEGINNING OF THE COLD WAR, 1945-1949 I. TOWARDS A COLD WAR. A. THE IDEOLOGICAL STRUGGLE. B. THE ATOMIC BOMB. C. THE GERMAN QUESTION. II. SOLUTIONS TO THE GERMAN QUESTION. A. WESTERN ANSWERS. B. SOVIET PLANS. C. THE DISAGREEMENT AND THE COLD WAR. III. CRISES IN WESTERN EUROPE. A. REBULDING EUROPE - MARSHALL PLAN. B. A FIRST BATTLE? - THE AIRLIFT, 1948-1949.
LECTURE #13 COLD WAR REACHES A STALEMATE 1948 TO THE 1960s I. EUROPEAN STALEMATE. A. N.A.T.O. AND THE WARSAW PACT. B. THE BERLIN WALL, 1961. C. CONTAINMENT. II. WORLD-WIDE STALEMATE. A. WESTERN ASSUMPTIONS. B. SPUTNIK, 1957. C. JOHN KENNEDY (1960 1963) AND NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV (1953 1964) D. THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS, 1962. E. MUTUAL ASSURED DESTRUCTION (M.A.D.)
LECTURE #14 MODERNITY CHALLENGES THE ENVIRONMENT 1950s T0 1980s I. THE WEST Endangered Planet questions A. EFFECT OF INDUSTRIALIZATION AND THE ENVIRONMENT? B. LIBERALISM HOW DID IT CAUSE DIFFICULTIES AND CREATE OPPORTUNITIES? C. WHO WAS RACHEL CARSON? D. WHAT WAS LOVE CANAL? II. ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES IN THE SOVIET UNION. A. RAPID, FORCED MODERNIZATION. 1) THE ARAL SEA. 2) CHELYABINSK-40 AND LAKE LARACHAI. 3) CHERNOBYL. 4) LAKE BAIKAL. B. AN ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT. 1) ANDREI SAKHAROV (1921 1989). 2) THE PLANNED ECONOMY.
LECTURE #15 REFORMING THE SOVIET UNION 1985 TO 1988 I. PROBLEMS TO 1985. A. STAGNATING ECONOMY. 1) INFLEXIBLE PLANNED ECONOMY. 2) CHANGES IN THE WORLD ECONOMY. B. HEATING UP THE COLD WAR- DÉTENTE. C. WEAK LEADERSHIP. II. ATTEMPTS TO REFORM THE SOVIET SYSTEM. A. MIKHAIL GORBACHEV, 1985 1991. B. PERESTROIKA. (RESTRUCTURING) C. GLASNOST. (OPENNESS) D. CHERNOBYL (4/26/1986)
LECTURE #16 THE FALL OF THE SOVIET UNION, 1989-1991 I. COLLAPSE OF AN EMPIRE. A. THE BERLIN WALL. (11/9/1989) B. EASTERN EUROPE DROPS THE MODEL. II. A UNION DIVIDED. A. ECONOMIC COLLAPSE. B. THE CONGRESS OF PEOPLE S DEPUTIES. C. FOREIGN INVESTMENT. III. THE PERILS OF DEMOCRATIZATION. A. LISTENING TO CONSTITUENTS. B. DEMANDS FOR AUTONOMY. C. ARTICLE 6. IV. COLLAPSE OF THE RUSSIAN MODEL. A. AUGUST 1991 COUP. B. A PRESIDENT WITHOUT A STATE. C. THE SEARCH FOR NEW MODELS.
LECTURE #17 THE EUROPEAN UNION I. TOWARDS POST-MODERN EUROPE. A. POST-WORLD WAR II PROBLEMS. B. DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM. C. WILLIAM BEVERIDGE (1879 1963). II. ECONOMIC INTEGRATION. A. COAL AND STEEL COMMUNITY, 1951. B. EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY, 1957. III. POLITICAL INTEGRATION. A. THE MAASTRICT TREATY, 1992. B. THE EURO ZONE, 2002. C. SCHENGEN AREA, 2005. IV. CHALLENGES. A. CONSTITUTION, 2005. B. ECONOMIC COLLAPSE, 2008.
LECTURE #18 RUSSIA 1991 TO 2014 I. ISSUES IN THE NEW OLD COUNTRY. A. PRESIDENT BORIS YELTSIN, 1991 1999. B. PRIVATIZATION. C. WAR AND ECONOMIC COLLAPSE. II. THE WORLD FROM A RUSSIAN VIEW. A. VLADIMIR PUTIN (1952 - ) B. N.A.T.O EXPANSION. C. RUSSIA AS SUPERPOWER. D. RUSSIA AS PETROPOWER. E. THE FATEFUL YEAR OF 2014?