Liulevicius Vejas Gabriel. World War I: The Great War

The Teaching Company, 2006Author \ Performer: Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius \ Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius
Genre: Lectures
Duration: 36 lectures, 30 min each
Language: English
Type: audiobook
Audio codec: MP3
Audio bitrate: 32 kbpsVejas Gabriel Liulevicius was born in Chicago, Illinois. He grew up on Chicago’s Southside in a Lithuanian-American neighborhood and also spent some years attending school in Aarhus, Denmark, and Bonn, Germany. He received his B.A. from the University of Chicago. In 1989, he spent the summer in Moscow and Leningrad (today St. Petersburg) in intensive language study in Russian. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in European history in 1994, specializing in modern German history.
The First World War came as a dreadful surprise to those who experienced it, due to its magnitude, global expanse, unprecedented violence, and shattering impact on Western civilization. This course of 36 lectures explores the continuous series of brutal surprises and shocks that the first example of a total war brought, a conflict not limited to armies, but pitting entire societies against each other in mortal struggle. An estimated 70 million men were mobilized and approximately 9 million died. The civilizational impact of an industrial slaughter on this scale was so significant that World War I set the 20th century on its violent course, culminating in a later, perfected total war, World War II.Part I
The Century’s Initial Catastrophe
Europe in 1914
Towards Crisis in Politics and Culture
Causes of the War and the July Crisis, 1914
The August Madness
The Failed Gambles — War Plans Break Down
The Western Front Experience
Life and Death in the Trenches
The Great Battles of Attrition
The Eastern Front Experience
The Southern Fronts
War Aims and OccupationsPart II
Soldiers as Victims
Storm Troopers and Future Dictators
The Total War of Technology
Air War
War at Sea
The Global Reach of the War
The War State
Propaganda War
Endurance and Stress on the Home Front
Dissent and Its Limits
Remobilization in 1916–1917
Armenian Massacres — Tipping into GenocidePart III
Strains of War — Socialists and Nationalists
Russian Revolutions
America’s Entry into the War
America at War — Over There and Over Here
1918 — The German Empire’s Last Gamble
The War’s End — Emotions of the Armistice
Toppled Thrones — The Collapse of Empires
The Versailles Treaty and Paris Settlement
Aftershocks — Reds, Whites, and Nationalists
Monuments, Memory, and Myths
The Rise of the Mass Dictatorships
Legacies of the Great War