History 1403
History 1403E Lectures
Unit 1
Introduction Lecture #1 – September 9th
Mass consent – soviet union rally
Different people gathering around
Not enough to say support but GIVE consent
Q: How does that happen
9 million people died in 1st world war – mostly soldiers
25 million people died in 2nd world war – 6 million Jews
200 million people were killed in the 20th century
From Zenith death camps
How could we go from so good to so bad – totalitarianism
[Nazi Experiment] Mussolini and Hitler both come to power through legal democratic means
Work within the system to assume power
Both change the government
[Soviet Experiment] Lenin and Stalin both come to power by means of a revolution
Lenin is a model for Hitler, Mussolini and the soviets
Totalitarianism Lecture #2 – September 16th
Father Luigi Sturzo
First person to use the word totalitarianism
One of the earliest critics of Mussolini
Forced into exile in 1924-1945
Exile is one of the ways totalitarianism punishes
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
One of the leading voices of resistance in Nazi Germany (Anti-Nazi)
Leader of the Confessing Church
Most famous book – Cost of Discipleship 1937
Has to find religious justification to warn people of embracing the Nazi movement
Real reason why he’s remembered is because he was involved in a plot to kill Hitler
Executed April 1945 because of his involvement in the plot to kill Hitler
Alexander Solchenitin
Russian writer and historian
Nobel prize in Literature – 1970
Wrote The Gulag Archipelago
Exiled from USSR in 1974
Early critic of Lenin – thought of him as the father of totalitarianism
Something at the core of the Soviet system that’s problematic
Putin is a fan of Alexander
Hannah Arendt
German, Jewish political theorist
Wrote The Origins of Totalitarianism
One of the first systematic attempts to analyze and describe what totalitarianism is
3 things she says
1. Anti Semitism she says is insignificant
Not dismissing it, just saying there are other things that are going on that
Unit 1
Introduction Lecture #1 – September 9th
Mass consent – soviet union rally
Different people gathering around
Not enough to say support but GIVE consent
Q: How does that happen
9 million people died in 1st world war – mostly soldiers
25 million people died in 2nd world war – 6 million Jews
200 million people were killed in the 20th century
From Zenith death camps
How could we go from so good to so bad – totalitarianism
[Nazi Experiment] Mussolini and Hitler both come to power through legal democratic means
Work within the system to assume power
Both change the government
[Soviet Experiment] Lenin and Stalin both come to power by means of a revolution
Lenin is a model for Hitler, Mussolini and the soviets
Totalitarianism Lecture #2 – September 16th
Father Luigi Sturzo
First person to use the word totalitarianism
One of the earliest critics of Mussolini
Forced into exile in 1924-1945
Exile is one of the ways totalitarianism punishes
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
One of the leading voices of resistance in Nazi Germany (Anti-Nazi)
Leader of the Confessing Church
Most famous book – Cost of Discipleship 1937
Has to find religious justification to warn people of embracing the Nazi movement
Real reason why he’s remembered is because he was involved in a plot to kill Hitler
Executed April 1945 because of his involvement in the plot to kill Hitler
Alexander Solchenitin
Russian writer and historian
Nobel prize in Literature – 1970
Wrote The Gulag Archipelago
Exiled from USSR in 1974
Early critic of Lenin – thought of him as the father of totalitarianism
Something at the core of the Soviet system that’s problematic
Putin is a fan of Alexander
Hannah Arendt
German, Jewish political theorist
Wrote The Origins of Totalitarianism
One of the first systematic attempts to analyze and describe what totalitarianism is
3 things she says
1. Anti Semitism she says is insignificant
Not dismissing it, just saying there are other things that are going on that