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    Overview

    A comparative exploration of attempts to create totalitarian regimes between 1922 and 1945 in Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and elsewhere.

    Between World War I and World War II, several major European nations, under the leadership of men such as Mussolini, Stalin and Hitler, shunned democracy to open new historic paths towards "totalitarianism" - the ideal of state control over all aspects of citizens' lives. This paper examines the pre-history and history of the principal regimes that aspired to totalitarian rule, as well as historical interpretations of their emergence and demise.

    About this paper

    Paper title Totalitarian Regimes: Europe 1922-1945
    Subject History
    EFTS 0.15
    Points 18 points
    Teaching period Semester 2 (On campus)
    Domestic Tuition Fees ( NZD ) $981.75
    International Tuition Fees Tuition Fees for international students are elsewhere on this website.
    Prerequisite
    One 100-level HIST paper or 54 points
    Schedule C
    Arts and Music
    Notes
    May not be credited together with HIST231 passed in 2004.
    Contact

    Professor Mark Seymour - mark.seymour@otago.ac.nz

    Teaching staff

    Coordinator and Lecturer:  Professor Mark Seymour

    Textbooks
    Course materials will be made available electronically.
    Course outline

    Available via Blackboard.

    Graduate Attributes Emphasised
    Global perspective, Scholarship, Communication, Critical thinking, Information literacy.
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    Learning Outcomes

    Students who successfully complete this paper will gain

    • Appreciation of the intellectual currents and historical circumstances favouring totalitarian styles of rule
    • Understanding of the similarities and differences among historical attempts to create totalitarian regimes
    • An understanding of totalitarian regimes as political experiments
    • An appreciation of historical responses to systematic human atrocities
    • An understanding of the historical fragility of democracy

    Timetable

    Semester 2

    Location
    Dunedin
    Teaching method
    This paper is taught On Campus
    Learning management system
    Blackboard

    Lecture

    Stream Days Times Weeks
    Attend
    A1 Tuesday 15:00-15:50 29-35, 37-42
    Thursday 15:00-15:50 29-35, 37-42

    Tutorial

    Stream Days Times Weeks
    Attend one stream from
    A1 Monday 15:00-15:50 31, 33-34, 38, 40
    A2 Tuesday 11:00-11:50 31, 33-34, 38, 40
    A3 Tuesday 12:00-12:50 31, 33-34, 38, 40
    A4 Monday 14:00-14:50 31, 33-34, 38, 40
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