pt. 1. disc 1. 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 -- disc 2. 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 -- pt. 2. disc 3. 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 -- disc 4. 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 -- pt. 3. disc 5. 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 -- disc 6. 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 -- pt. 4. disc 7. 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 -- disc 8. 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.

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