Countries of Europe Sample Clips -- Themes

  England, Part 1

  How do the views of some historians contrast with

  Shakespeare's depiction of Richard III as a monstrous

  villain?

  England, Part 2

  What is the impact of the Enclosure Act, which allows

  large land owners to grow cash crops replacing

  peasants' small farms, on the increasing industrialization

  in mid-19th century England?

  Ireland

  How does the 1927 Home Rule agreement after

  the1916 Easter Rebellion during World War I, result

  in dividing Ireland and England into civil war?

  France, Part 1

  What is the broader meaning of chivalry and how does it

  hold together the pyramidal political system of feudalism

  for the nobles?

  France, Part 2

  What is the basis of the horror of the Reign of

  Terror during the French Revolution, and why does

  the Jacobins allow it to happen?

  France, Part 3

  Why is trench warfare which occurred for 4 years on

  French soil during World War I considered a

  disaster for France's future history?

  Germany, Part 1

  How does the "realpolitik" of Prussia's Chancellor

  Bismarck become the basis for the unification of

  Germany?

  Germany, Part 2

  Why does the partnership between government and

  business provoke violent anti-Semitism in Italy and

  Germany but not in the western democracies?

  Russia, Part 1

  In 1860s Russia, how does the political opposition of

  the Nihilists based on hopelessness contrast with

  the emerging political opposition based on the

  ideas of Karl Marx?

  Russia, Part 2

  Why do the Russian peasants strongly support

  the Bolshevik revolution of 1917 though they do not

  identify at all with the Bolshevik ideas of Proletariat?

  Russia, Part 3

  In the Russian purge trials of the 1930s, what could be

  another stunning reason the defendants confess to

  charges that are patently absurd on their face, in

  addition to the usual reasons for false confessions?

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