Utopia and Terror in the 20th Century
(24 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture)
Course No. 8313
Taught by Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius
University of Tennessee
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania

From the trenches of World War I to Nazi Germany to Saddam Hussein's Iraq, the 20th century was a time of unprecedented violence. According to best estimates, in that 100-year span more than 200 million people were killed in world wars, government-sponsored persecutions, and genocides.
Such monumental violence seems senseless. But it is not inexplicable. And if we can understand its origins, we may prevent even greater horrors in the century to come.

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Utopia by Sir Thomas More

Sir Thomas More, was an English lawyer, author, and statesman. During his lifetime he earned a reputation as a leading humanist scholar. More coined the word "utopia", a name he gave to an ideal, imaginary island nation whose political system he described in a book published in 1516.