Class Sessions

1. Introduction
2. Absolutism and the State
3. Dutch and British Exceptionalism
4. Peter the Great
5. The Enlightenment and the Public Sphere
6. Maximilien Robespierre and the French Revolution
7. Napoleon
8. Industrial Revolutions
9. Middle Classes
10. Popular Protest
11. Why no Revolution in 1848 in Britain
12. Nineteenth-Century Cities
13. Nationalism
14. Radicals
15. Imperialists and Boy Scouts
16. The Coming of the Great War
17. War in the Trenches
18. Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning (Guest Lecture by Jay Winters)
19. The Romanovs and the Russian Revolution
20. Successor States of Eastern Europe
21. Stalinism
22. Fascists
23. Collaboration and Resistance in World War II
24. The Collapse of Communism and Global Challenges