World Civ-Age of Anxiety and Totalitarianism Archives - Daniel Aaron Lazar Sat, 04 Sep 2021 07:03:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 IQ2 Debate: Neville Chamberlain Did The Right Thing https://daniellazar.com/2020/09/08/iq2-debate-neville-chamberlain-did-the-right-thing-2/ Tue, 08 Sep 2020 07:51:34 +0000 https://daniellazar.com/?p=8939 If you prefer, you can listen to the podcast version here If ever a politician got a bum rap it’s Neville Chamberlain. He has gone down in history as the British prime minster whose policy of appeasement in the 1930s allowed the Nazis to flourish unopposed. He has never been forgiven for ceding part of … Continue reading IQ2 Debate: Neville Chamberlain Did The Right Thing →

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]]> Child Care Advice From Early Soviet Propaganda Posters https://daniellazar.com/2020/05/12/child-care-advice-from-early-soviet-propaganda-posters/ Tue, 12 May 2020 20:45:03 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=5951 The images, all printed in 1930, reflect the government’s promotion of early-childhood health and well-being in the early years of the Soviet Union.

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]]> Lecture: Weimar Society and Culture https://daniellazar.com/2017/06/24/5713/ Sat, 24 Jun 2017 19:35:02 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=5713 My lecture on Weimar Society and Culture. Lecture Outline: Socioeconomic Setting Education and Intelligentsia Gender Revolution Crime & Punishment Cinema Expressionism Dada New Objectivity Music Architecture

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]]> 1913: When Hitler, Trotsky, Tito, Freud and Stalin all lived in Vienna https://daniellazar.com/2013/05/14/1913-when-hitler-trotsky-tito-freud-and-stalin-all-lived-in-vienna/ Tue, 14 May 2013 18:47:05 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=4442 The post 1913: When Hitler, Trotsky, Tito, Freud and Stalin all lived in Vienna appeared first on Daniel Aaron Lazar.

]]> Liberating modernism, degenerate art, or subversive reeducation? – The impact of jazz on European culture https://daniellazar.com/2013/04/07/liberating-modernism-degenerate-art-or-subversive-reeducation-the-impact-of-jazz-on-european-culture/ Sun, 07 Apr 2013 14:01:40 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=4378 Until then the label jazz (or jass) was used both as a positive and negative stereotype to mark a rhythmic revolution and as a shorthand for the larger threat of modernization or westernization through Americanization. But what triggered this excess of hostility or appreciation at these two crucial times and who were the agents and … Continue reading Liberating modernism, degenerate art, or subversive reeducation? – The impact of jazz on European culture →

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]]> Video–Declassified: Joseph Stalin https://daniellazar.com/2013/02/28/video-declassified-joseph-stalin/ Thu, 28 Feb 2013 09:09:51 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=4323 From season 6 of History Channel’s Declassified series. Not the most nuanced view of Stalin. In fact, kind of ham-handed. But here it is.

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]]> Rosa Luxemburg murder case reopened https://daniellazar.com/2013/02/27/rosa-luxemburg-murder-case-reopened/ Wed, 27 Feb 2013 06:03:52 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=4254 German prosecutors are re-examining the 1919 murder of the communist leader Rosa Luxemburg, amid claims investigators at the time replaced her corpse with that of another woman.  

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]]> A review of Reminiscences & Reflections: A Youth in Germany by Golo Mann. https://daniellazar.com/2013/02/17/a-review-of-reminiscences-reflections-a-youth-in-germany-by-golo-mann/ Sun, 17 Feb 2013 09:59:18 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=4207 In his new book, Reminiscences and Reflections, Mann gives an intimate account of Weimar that explores areas more unfamiliar to the modern reader than the well-worn stereotypes of urban glitter and decadence: Berlin figures less prominently than Munich, the town less than the countryside, and the avant-garde less than literary tradition and scholastic institutions.

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]]> DBQ: Instability of the Weimar Republic https://daniellazar.com/2013/02/01/dbq-instability-of-the-weimar-republic/ Fri, 01 Feb 2013 06:57:15 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=4161 Here is the DBQ: Analyze the factors that contributed to the instability of the Weimar Republic in the period 1918–1933.    

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]]> The Weimar Constitution: A Primer https://daniellazar.com/2013/02/01/the-weimar-constitution-a-primer/ Fri, 01 Feb 2013 06:55:13 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=4159 Check out this 4 page summary of the Weimar Constitution. A good place to start Germany’s First Democratic Constitution (5 page reading) Weimar Constitution excerpts – 4pages Graphic: Flow Chart of Weimar Constitution

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