German 051

Stalin and Hitler or “Red vs. Brown”

Historical Issues in Cultural and Other Perspectives

Professor David Pike

Fall Semester 2021

dpike@email.unc.edu

Student Meetings by Arrangement

Course Syllabus

Readings

Marx: The Communist Manifesto

Lenin: Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism

Remarque: All Quiet on the Western Front (1)

Remarque: All Quiet on the Western Front (2)

John Reed: Ten Days that Shook the World

Bertolt Brecht: The Three Penny Opera

Walter Benjamin: The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

George Orwell: Animal Farm

Georg Buechner, Danton's Death

George Kennan: “Russia — Seven Years Later.” Memorandum by the Counselor of the Embassy of the United States. Moscow, September 1944

George Steiner: “Singling out the Jewish ‘Invention of Conscience’”

Explaining Hitler: “The Baby Pictures and the Abyss”

Richard Lourie: “The Autobiography of Joseph Stalin”