HIST 0190 - THE DICTATORS

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course examines and compares the dictatorships of Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Soviet Union. We shall investigate the official methods and media that transmitted the ideologies and aimed to manufacture consent for national socialism and Stalinist communism. On the basis of myths, public art, films, spectacle, and mass culture of the regimes, we shall discuss such topics as leader cults, construction of utopias, cultural revolutions, identities, and the role of propaganda and entertainment.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis

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