1. Russian Revolutions and the Soviet Regime #11: The November Revolution (29:23)

Date:
unknown/unknown
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Radio and Television Service, Byrnes, Robert Francis
Summary:
Robert F. Byrnes was a Professor of History at Indiana University from 1956 to 1988 and served as director of the Russian and East European Institute at IU from 1959-1962 and 1971-1975. Byrnes specialized in the study of Russian conservative thought, Russian historical writing, anti-Semitism in France and Europe, the Soviet role in world affairs after World War II, American policy toward Eastern Europe, and Soviet American relations. This film is part of series Byrnes created in 1959 for distance learning purposes. This episode contains a discussion of the November revolution of 1917 in Russia.
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2. Russian Revolutions and the Soviet Regime #19: New Industrial Revolution (29:32)

Date:
unknown/unknown
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Radio and Television Service, Byrnes, Robert Francis
Summary:
Robert F. Byrnes was a Professor of History at Indiana University from 1956 to 1988 and served as director of the Russian and East European Institute at IU from 1959-1962 and 1971-1975. Byrnes specialized in the study of Russian conservative thought, Russian historical writing, anti-Semitism in France and Europe, the Soviet role in world affairs after World War II, American policy toward Eastern Europe, and Soviet American relations. Discussion of the first five-year plans in Russia, from 1929 to 1940. Discussion of the impact of planning on Russia during these years.
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3. Russian Revolutions and the Soviet Regime #5: The Revolution of 1905 (29:26)

Date:
unknown/unknown
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Radio and Television Service, Byrnes, Robert Francis
Summary:
Robert F. Byrnes was a Professor of History at Indiana University from 1956 to 1988 and served as director of the Russian and East European Institute at IU from 1959-1962 and 1971-1975. Byrnes specialized in the study of Russian conservative thought, Russian historical writing, anti-Semitism in France and Europe, the Soviet role in world affairs after World War II, American policy toward Eastern Europe, and Soviet American relations. This film is part of series Byrnes created in 1959 for distance learning purposes. Byrnes's focus in this episode is a discussion of the revolution of 1905.
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4. Russian Revolutions and the Soviet Regime #16: Expansion of the Revolution (29:34)

Date:
unknown/unknown
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Radio and Television Service, Byrnes, Robert Francis
Summary:
Robert F. Byrnes was a Professor of History at Indiana University from 1956 to 1988 and served as director of the Russian and East European Institute at IU from 1959-1962 and 1971-1975. Byrnes specialized in the study of Russian conservative thought, Russian historical writing, anti-Semitism in France and Europe, the Soviet role in world affairs after World War II, American policy toward Eastern Europe, and Soviet American relations. This film is part of series Byrnes created in 1959 for distance learning purposes. Byrnes's outline at the beginning of the episode includes: Discussion of Russian efforts to expand their revolution to other countries from 1917 to 1927. Examination of the Third International. Explanation of Lenin's ideas as they pertain to the international movement. Examination of the organization of the Third International, particularly its second congress in July and August of 1920. Efforts to expand communist revolution first to Europe and then into China.
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5. Russian Revolutions and the Soviet Regime #2: Russia: 1860 (29:28)

Date:
unknown/unknown
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Radio and Television Service, Byrnes, Robert Francis
Summary:
Robert F. Byrnes was a Professor of History at Indiana University from 1956 to 1988 and served as director of the Russian and East European Institute at IU from 1959-1962 and 1971-1975. Byrnes specialized in the study of Russian conservative thought, Russian historical writing, anti-Semitism in France and Europe, the Soviet role in world affairs after World War II, American policy toward Eastern Europe, and Soviet American relations. This film is part of series Byrnes created in 1959 for distance learning purposes. Byrnes's outline for the lecture includes: Analysis of Russia's 'old regime', or the regime before the revolutions which began in 1860, as Byrnes describes. Discussion of the position of Russia after the Crimean war, the Russian government, economy, social structure, and culture. Finally the clash between different ideals in the state.
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6. Russian Revolutions and the Soviet Regime #29: Stalin's Russia (29:27)

Date:
unknown/unknown
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Radio and Television Service, Byrnes, Robert Francis
Summary:
Robert F. Byrnes was a Professor of History at Indiana University from 1956 to 1988 and served as director of the Russian and East European Institute at IU from 1959-1962 and 1971-1975. Byrnes specialized in the study of Russian conservative thought, Russian historical writing, anti-Semitism in France and Europe, the Soviet role in world affairs after World War II, American policy toward Eastern Europe, and Soviet American relations. This film is part of series Byrnes created in 1959 for distance learning purposes.This episode contains: Commentary on the nature of Russian society under Stalin. Discussion of the idealogical framework of the 1917 Russian revolutionary movement. Discussion of Russian economy (esp. industry) between 1928 and the film's time of recording. Discussion of Soviet cultural programs.
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7. Russian Revolutions and the Soviet Regime #9: Collapse of the old regime (29:34)

Date:
unknown/unknown
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Radio and Television Service, Byrnes, Robert Francis
Summary:
Robert F. Byrnes was a Professor of History at Indiana University from 1956 to 1988 and served as director of the Russian and East European Institute at IU from 1959-1962 and 1971-1975. Byrnes specialized in the study of Russian conservative thought, Russian historical writing, anti-Semitism in France and Europe, the Soviet role in world affairs after World War II, American policy toward Eastern Europe, and Soviet American relations. This film is part of series Byrnes created in 1959 for distance learning purposes. This episode contains a discussion of the 1917 revolutions, in particular the March revolution which led to the establishment of the Provisional Government of 1917.
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8. Russian Revolutions and the Soviet Regime #26: Soviet Union in 1945 (29:32)

Date:
unknown/unknown
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Radio and Television Service, Byrnes, Robert Francis
Summary:
Robert F. Byrnes was a Professor of History at Indiana University from 1956 to 1988 and served as director of the Russian and East European Institute at IU from 1959-1962 and 1971-1975. Byrnes specialized in the study of Russian conservative thought, Russian historical writing, anti-Semitism in France and Europe, the Soviet role in world affairs after World War II, American policy toward Eastern Europe, and Soviet American relations. This film is part of series Byrnes created in 1959 for distance learning purposes. Byrnes's outline for this episode includes: Analysis of Russia's geopolitical position in 1945. Brief description of Byrnes's understanding of communist party goals in 1945. Description of the foundations of soviet policy at the time. Analysis of the weaknesses of the Soviet Union in 1945. Finally analysis of the strengths of the Soviet Union in 1945. Objective for the lecture is to build a base for discussion of the Soviet Union after 1945.
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9. Russian Revolutions and the Soviet Regime #13: Communist revolution and civil war (29:31)

Date:
unknown/unknown
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Radio and Television Service, Byrnes, Robert Francis
Summary:
Robert F. Byrnes was a Professor of History at Indiana University from 1956 to 1988 and served as director of the Russian and East European Institute at IU from 1959-1962 and 1971-1975. Byrnes specialized in the study of Russian conservative thought, Russian historical writing, anti-Semitism in France and Europe, the Soviet role in world affairs after World War II, American policy toward Eastern Europe, and Soviet American relations. This film is part of series Byrnes created in 1959 for distance learning purposes. This episode contains: The first of two lectures discussing the years of 1918 to 1920 in Russian history. Concentration in this part on the civil war.
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10. Russian Revolutions and the Soviet Regime #30: Continuity and Change (29:27)

Date:
unknown/unknown
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Radio and Television Service, Byrnes, Robert Francis
Summary:
Robert F. Byrnes was a Professor of History at Indiana University from 1956 to 1988 and served as director of the Russian and East European Institute at IU from 1959-1962 and 1971-1975. Byrnes specialized in the study of Russian conservative thought, Russian historical writing, anti-Semitism in France and Europe, the Soviet role in world affairs after World War II, American policy toward Eastern Europe, and Soviet American relations. This film is part of series Byrnes created in 1959 for distance learning purposes. Byrnes's outline includes: Conclusion of the series on Russian history since 1860. Recapitulation of the thesis of the course. Discussion of the continuities in Russian history.
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11. Russian Revolutions and the Soviet Regime #18: Issues and Decisions (29:32)

Date:
1959/1960
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Radio and Television Service, Byrnes, Robert Francis
Summary:
Robert F. Byrnes was a Professor of History at Indiana University from 1956 to 1988 and served as director of the Russian and East European Institute at IU from 1959-1962 and 1971-1975. Byrnes specialized in the study of Russian conservative thought, Russian historical writing, anti-Semitism in France and Europe, the Soviet role in world affairs after World War II, American policy toward Eastern Europe, and Soviet American relations. This film is part of series Byrnes created in 1959 for distance learning purposes. Byrnes's outline for the episodes includes: Examination of the 'Great Debate' of 1924 - 1929. Questions of agriculture and industry. Examination of the 2 phases of the great debate.
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12. Russian Revolutions and the Soviet Regime #24: The grand alliance (29:21)

Date:
unknown/unknown
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Radio and Television Service, Byrnes, Robert Francis
Summary:
Robert F. Byrnes was a Professor of History at Indiana University from 1956 to 1988 and served as director of the Russian and East European Institute at IU from 1959-1962 and 1971-1975. Byrnes specialized in the study of Russian conservative thought, Russian historical writing, anti-Semitism in France and Europe, the Soviet role in world affairs after World War II, American policy toward Eastern Europe, and Soviet American relations. This film is part of series Byrnes created in 1959 for distance learning purposes. In it he discusses the alliance of Russia with Great Britain, the United States, etc. against the Axis powers from 1941 to 1945, and western attitudes towards the Soviet Union during WWII and vice versa.
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13. Russian Revolutions and the Soviet Regime #10: The provisional government (29:33)

Date:
unknown/unknown
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Radio and Television Service, Byrnes, David Francis
Summary:
Robert F. Byrnes was a Professor of History at Indiana University from 1956 to 1988 and served as director of the Russian and East European Institute at IU from 1959-1962 and 1971-1975. Byrnes specialized in the study of Russian conservative thought, Russian historical writing, anti-Semitism in France and Europe, the Soviet role in world affairs after World War II, American policy toward Eastern Europe, and Soviet American relations. This film is part of series Byrnes created in 1959 for distance learning purposes. This episode contains: Description of the events which led to the collapse of the 1917 Russian provisional government. Examination of the weaknesses of the provisional government, the isolation of the government in September. Then examination of the conditions of Russia at the time. Finally discussion of the rise of the Bolsheviks.
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14. Russian Revolutions and the Soviet Regime #4: Revolutionary Forces and Ideas (29:37)

Date:
unknown/unknown
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Radio and Television Service, Byrnes, Robert Francis
Summary:
Robert F. Byrnes was a Professor of History at Indiana University from 1956 to 1988 and served as director of the Russian and East European Institute at IU from 1959-1962 and 1971-1975. Byrnes specialized in the study of Russian conservative thought, Russian historical writing, anti-Semitism in France and Europe, the Soviet role in world affairs after World War II, American policy toward Eastern Europe, and Soviet American relations. This film is part of series Byrnes created in 1959 for distance learning purposes. This episode contains: Discussion of the revolutionary ideas which emerged in Russia in the 2nd half of the 19th century. Examination of the beginnings of industrialization in Russia. Discussion of the role of nationalism in Russian ideology. Conclusion with an examination of the different political groups and ideas which emerged in Russia during this time.
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15. Russian Revolutions and the Soviet Regime #21: Soviet Foreign Policy in the 1930s (29:31)

Date:
unknown/unknown
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Radio and Television Service, Byrnes, Robert Francis
Summary:
Robert F. Byrnes was a Professor of History at Indiana University from 1956 to 1988 and served as director of the Russian and East European Institute at IU from 1959-1962 and 1971-1975. Byrnes specialized in the study of Russian conservative thought, Russian historical writing, anti-Semitism in France and Europe, the Soviet role in world affairs after World War II, American policy toward Eastern Europe, and Soviet American relations. This film is part of series Byrnes created in 1959 for distance learning purposes. This lecture contains: Discussion of Russian foreign policy in the 1930s. Discusses the geopolitics of 1920s Europe and how these geopolitical conditions led to Russia's 1930s world stance. Also discusses Russia's foreign policy towards China and Japan. Finally details the interactions of Russia and Germany, both pre- and post-Hitler, concluding with discussion of the Munich pact immediately preceding World War II, and its consequences.
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16. Russian Revolutions and the Soviet Regime #7: The First World War (29:31)

Date:
unknown/unknown
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Radio and Television Service, Byrnes, Robert Francis
Summary:
Robert F. Byrnes was a Professor of History at Indiana University from 1956 to 1988 and served as director of the Russian and East European Institute at IU from 1959-1962 and 1971-1975. Byrnes specialized in the study of Russian conservative thought, Russian historical writing, anti-Semitism in France and Europe, the Soviet role in world affairs after World War II, American policy toward Eastern Europe, and Soviet American relations. This film is part of series Byrnes created in 1959 for distance learning purposes. This episode contains: description of the contributions of Russia to the 1st world war, and the consequences of Russia's involvement on the revolution of 1917. Analysis of Russian strategy during the war. Campaigns between 1914 and 1916.
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17. Russian Revolutions and the Soviet Regime #23: The Great Fatherland War (29:28)

Date:
unknown/unknown
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Radio and Television Service, Byrnes, Robert Francis
Summary:
Robert F. Byrnes was a Professor of History at Indiana University from 1956 to 1988 and served as director of the Russian and East European Institute at IU from 1959-1962 and 1971-1975. Byrnes specialized in the study of Russian conservative thought, Russian historical writing, anti-Semitism in France and Europe, the Soviet role in world affairs after World War II, American policy toward Eastern Europe, and Soviet American relations. This film is part of series Byrnes created in 1959 for distance learning purposes.This episode contains analysis of the war fought between the Soviet Union and Germany between June 22, 1941 and February of 1943. Explanation of the German capture of the Balkans in 1940-41. Analysis of the strengths of Germany and Russia, and the reason war broke out between the two. Analysis of German strategy at the time. Discussion of the battle for Moscow after the outbreak of war. Discussion of the battle of Stalingrad, from Sept. 1942 - Feb. 1943.
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18. Russian Revolutions and the Soviet Regime #25: Liberation from the East (29:16)

Date:
unknown/unknown
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Radio and Television Service
Summary:
Robert F. Byrnes was a Professor of History at Indiana University from 1956 to 1988 and served as director of the Russian and East European Institute at IU from 1959-1962 and 1971-1975. Byrnes specialized in the study of Russian conservative thought, Russian historical writing, anti-Semitism in France and Europe, the Soviet role in world affairs after World War II, American policy toward Eastern Europe, and Soviet American relations. This film is part of series Byrnes created in 1959 for distance learning purposes. This episode contains: Discussion of the last 2.5 years of the war between Russia and Germany. Time period: between Feb. 3rd 1943 (end of the battle of Stalingrad) and the fall of Berlin in May of 1945. Analysis of the reasons that Russia won against Germany after Stalingrad. Discussion of Russian territorial gains in 1943. Next, discussion of Russian gains in 1944, including Finland, the Balkans, etc. Finally, focus on the 1945 capture of Berlin.
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19. Russian Revolutions and the Soviet Regime #27: Soviet Control of East Central Europe (29:32)

Date:
unknown/unknown
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Radio and Television Service, Byrnes, Robert Francis
Summary:
Robert F. Byrnes was a Professor of History at Indiana University from 1956 to 1988 and served as director of the Russian and East European Institute at IU from 1959-1962 and 1971-1975. Byrnes specialized in the study of Russian conservative thought, Russian historical writing, anti-Semitism in France and Europe, the Soviet role in world affairs after World War II, American policy toward Eastern Europe, and Soviet American relations. This film is part of series Byrnes created in 1959 for distance learning purposes. Byrnes's outline contains: Analysis of Soviet policy in Eastern Europe between 1945 and 1956. Analysis of the reasons for the ability of the Soviet Union to gain control over East-Central Europe, both from the perspective of Soviet strengths and Western European/American weaknesses. Progression of soviet policy stages between 1943 and 1956. Consequences of Soviet control of East-Central Europe, as well as consequences of the death of Stalin on the Soviet Union.
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20. Russian Revolutions and the Soviet Regime #3: Principal Developments: 1860-1900 (29:37)

Date:
unknown/unknown
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Radio and Television Service, Byrnes, Robert Francis
Summary:
Robert F. Byrnes was a Professor of History at Indiana University from 1956 to 1988 and served as director of the Russian and East European Institute at IU from 1959-1962 and 1971-1975. Byrnes specialized in the study of Russian conservative thought, Russian historical writing, anti-Semitism in France and Europe, the Soviet role in world affairs after World War II, American policy toward Eastern Europe, and Soviet American relations. This film is part of series Byrnes created in 1959 for distance learning purposes. Byrnes's outline at the beginning of the episode includes: Analysis of the main developments in Russian history between 1860 and 1900. Begins with discussion of the abolition of serfdom in 1861. Follows with further reforms between 1861 and 1875. Finally discusses the Polish revolt of 1863. Examination of the response to these reforms in the 1880s and 1890s. Conclusion of lecture is an analysis of the Balkan crisis in 1878.
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21. Russian Revolutions and the Soviet Regime #22: Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia, 1939-41 (29:24)

Date:
unknown/unknown
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Radio and Television Service, Byrnes, Robert Francis
Summary:
Robert F. Byrnes was a Professor of History at Indiana University from 1956 to 1988 and served as director of the Russian and East European Institute at IU from 1959-1962 and 1971-1975. Byrnes specialized in the study of Russian conservative thought, Russian historical writing, anti-Semitism in France and Europe, the Soviet role in world affairs after World War II, American policy toward Eastern Europe, and Soviet American relations. his film is part of series Byrnes created in 1959 for distance learning purposes. This episode generally contains a description of the events leading up to the outbreak of WWII. Byrnes's outline covers: 1. Why collective security failed. 2. Crises/disasters contributing to loss of collective security, ending in 1938. 3. Explanation of the Russian/German non-aggression pact in Aug. 1939. 4. Description of the benefits gained by the Russians by signing the above non-aggression pact. 5. Explanation of the breakdown of German-Russian relations and the reasons for violation of the pact in June of 1941.
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22. Russian Revolutions and the Soviet Regime #20: Purges and trials, 1936-38 (29:33)

Date:
unknown/unknown
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Radio and Television Service, Byrnes, Robert Francis
Summary:
Robert F. Byrnes was a Professor of History at Indiana University from 1956 to 1988 and served as director of the Russian and East European Institute at IU from 1959-1962 and 1971-1975. Byrnes specialized in the study of Russian conservative thought, Russian historical writing, anti-Semitism in France and Europe, the Soviet role in world affairs after World War II, American policy toward Eastern Europe, and Soviet American relations. This film is part of series Byrnes created in 1959 for distance learning purposes. This episode contains: Discussion of the great purges and public trials between 1935 and 1938. Commentary on the communist party and Soviet system of the time. Narrative of the purges, between January of 1935 and late 1938. Next, interpretation of the causes of the purges. Impacts of the purges on the events of 1959.
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23. Russian Revolutions and the Soviet Regime #8: Domestic history of the War (29:26)

Date:
unknown/unknown
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Radio and Television Service, Byrnes, Robert Francis
Summary:
Robert F. Byrnes was a Professor of History at Indiana University from 1956 to 1988 and served as director of the Russian and East European Institute at IU from 1959-1962 and 1971-1975. Byrnes specialized in the study of Russian conservative thought, Russian historical writing, anti-Semitism in France and Europe, the Soviet role in world affairs after World War II, American policy toward Eastern Europe, and Soviet American relations. This film is part of series Byrnes created in 1959 for distance learning purposes. Byrnes's outline at the beginning of the episode includes: Discussion of the domestic consequences for Russia's war actions in the course of the First World War. Description of the early popularity of the war in Russia. Examination of the different classes of Russian society during the war. Concludes by examining the Russian army.
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24. Russian Revolutions and the Soviet Regime #15: Russia in 1921 and the N.E.P. (29:09)

Date:
unknown/unknown
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Radio and Television Service, Byrnes, Robert Franics
Summary:
Robert F. Byrnes was a Professor of History at Indiana University from 1956 to 1988 and served as director of the Russian and East European Institute at IU from 1959-1962 and 1971-1975. Byrnes specialized in the study of Russian conservative thought, Russian historical writing, anti-Semitism in France and Europe, the Soviet role in world affairs after World War II, American policy toward Eastern Europe, and Soviet American relations. This film is part of series Byrnes created in 1959 for distance learning purposes. This episode contains: Explanation of the success of the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil war of 1918-1920. Explanation of the situation of the Russian Government as of 1921.
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25. Russian Revolutions and the Soviet Regime #14: Foreign Intervention in Civil War (29:32)

Date:
unknown/unknown
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Radio and Television Service, Byrnes, Robert Francis
Summary:
Robert F. Byrnes was a Professor of History at Indiana University from 1956 to 1988 and served as director of the Russian and East European Institute at IU from 1959-1962 and 1971-1975. Byrnes specialized in the study of Russian conservative thought, Russian historical writing, anti-Semitism in France and Europe, the Soviet role in world affairs after World War II, American policy toward Eastern Europe, and Soviet American relations. This film is part of series Byrnes created in 1959 for distance learning purposes. This episode contains: Discussion of foreign intervention into the Russian Civil War of 1918-1920. Contains a fast review of the civil war's course.
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26. Russian Revolutions and the Soviet Regime #12: Brest-Litovsk: Russia Leaves the War (29:38)

Date:
unknown/unknown
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Radio and Television Service, Byrnes, Robert Francis
Summary:
Robert F. Byrnes was a Professor of History at Indiana University from 1956 to 1988 and served as director of the Russian and East European Institute at IU from 1959-1962 and 1971-1975. Byrnes specialized in the study of Russian conservative thought, Russian historical writing, anti-Semitism in France and Europe, the Soviet role in world affairs after World War II, American policy toward Eastern Europe, and Soviet American relations. This film is part of series Byrnes created in 1959 for distance learning purposes. Byrnes's outline includes: Discussion of Russia's withdrawal from the First World War after the revolutions of 1917. Discussion of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. History of the armisitice negotiations, positions of the parties involved. After armistice, examination of the negotiations for the peace treaty itself in Jan-Feb. of 1918. Consequences of the treaty for Russia.
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27. Russian Revolutions and the Soviet Regime #6: The Coming of the First World War (29:30)

Date:
unknown/unknown
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Radio and Television Service, Byrnes, Robert Francis
Summary:
Robert F. Byrnes was a Professor of History at Indiana University from 1956 to 1988 and served as director of the Russian and East European Institute at IU from 1959-1962 and 1971-1975. Byrnes specialized in the study of Russian conservative thought, Russian historical writing, anti-Semitism in France and Europe, the Soviet role in world affairs after World War II, American policy toward Eastern Europe, and Soviet American relations. This film is part of series Byrnes created in 1959 for distance learning purposes. Byrnes's outline at the beginning of the episode includes: Discussion of how Russia became involved in WWI. Analysis of the period of constitutional government, from 1906 - 1914. Discussion of the state of Russia just before the first world war. Explanation of the events which precipitated World War I.
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28. Russian Revolutions and the Soviet Regime #28: Communist Expansion in Asia, 1945-59 (29:22)

Date:
unknown/unknown
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Radio and Television Service, Byrnes, Robert Francis
Summary:
Robert F. Byrnes was a Professor of History at Indiana University from 1956 to 1988 and served as director of the Russian and East European Institute at IU from 1959-1962 and 1971-1975. Byrnes specialized in the study of Russian conservative thought, Russian historical writing, anti-Semitism in France and Europe, the Soviet role in world affairs after World War II, American policy toward Eastern Europe, and Soviet American relations. This film is part of series Byrnes created in 1959 for distance learning purposes. This episode contains: Discussion of the expansion of communism on the continent of Asia between 1945 and 1959. Description of the political situation on the Asian continent after the surrender of Japan in August of 1945. Analysis of the Chinese civil war. Discussion of the Korean War. Discussion of the 'second revolution' between 1949 and 1959 in China. Concludes with an examination of the relationship between communist China and the Soviet Union.
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29. Steve Sweitzer Oral History (2:05:55)

Date:
2024-04-03
Main contributors:
Sweitzer, Steve
Summary:
Steve Sweitzer was interviewed by Jack Lindner for the Oral History Collection on April, 4 2024.
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metadata (2), transcript (1657)

30. Grand Strategy: an American problem? (1:30:31)

Date:
2012-03-08
Main contributors:
Charles Hill
Summary:
The Founders designed a polity almost fated to become a world power. Tocqueville's sense of democracy as a force of history was accompanied by his conclusion that democracies are "decidedly inferior" in the conduct of foreign affairs. Despite America's nineteenth-century reluctance to engage fully with world diplomacy, the U.S., as democracy's standard-bearer, emerged as "the leader of the Free World" in the course of twentieth-century wars waged by ideologically-driven powers seeking to overturn the established international state system. In this new century, democracy has emerged as problematic in new ways, affecting the bond between it and the U.S. role in maintaining world order, with special reference to challenges in the Middle East and Asia.
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31. Patterns and Interpretation (1:14:13)

Date:
2017-01-24
Main contributors:
Franco Moretti
Summary:
Digitization has completely changed the literary archive. Historians of the novel used to work on a few hundred nineteenth-century novels; today, we work on thousands of them; tomorrow, hundreds of thousands. This new size has had a major effect on literary history, obviously enough, but also on critical methodology; because, when we work on 200,000 novels instead of 200, we are not doing the same thing, 1,000 times bigger; we are doing a different thing. The new scale changes our relationship to the object of study, and in fact it changes the object itself, by making it entirely abstract. And the question arises: what does it mean to study literature as an abstraction and by means of abstractions? We clearly lose some important aspects of the literary experience. Do we gain anything?
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33. Sadie and the Sadists: A Reading of New Poems and Song Lyrics (1:14:15)

Date:
2017-09-27
Main contributors:
Muldoon, Paul
Summary:
In addition to his interest in the lyric poem, which he has now been exploring for fifty years, Paul Muldoon is drawn to the shadowy domain of the song lyric. His reading tonight focuses on new poems and songs, as well as work included in the recently published Selected Poems 1968-2014 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) and Sadie and the Sadists (Eyewear).
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metadata (12), transcript (562)

34. The Logical Structure of Human Civilization (1:24:07)

Date:
2014-09-11
Main contributors:
John Searle
Summary:
The distinctive features of human civilization, as opposed to animal societies, are such things as money, property, marriage, government, etc. These are created and partly constituted by linguistic representations. For this reason, they all have logical, propositional structures. John Searle will explain how they are created and maintained by certain sorts of speech acts and thus explain the nature of human civilization.
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metadata (6), transcript (1032)

35. Designing Case Study Research: Lessons from a Grant Reviewer (1:31:42)

Date:
2011-10-28
Main contributors:
Andrew Bennett
Summary:
This session will cover the essential tasks of designing case study research (specifying the puzzle, identifying alternative explanations, specifying the variables and measuring them, selecting cases, and formulating questions to ask of each case). It draws on the lecturer's experience reviewing hundreds of grant proposals for the National Science Foundation and the US Institute of Peace to identify ten common flaws in case study research designs.
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36. Sociogenomics and the Dynamic Genome: A New Perspective on Nature and Nurture (1:12:43)

Date:
2019-03-19
Main contributors:
Robinson, Gene
Summary:
This lecture will describe the roots of sociogenomics and how it provides a new framework for understanding the relationship between genes and social behavior. The key discoveries underlying this framework will be discussed: 1) Brain gene expression is closely linked with behavior, across time scales, from physiological to evolutionary; 2) Environmentally induced changes in gene expression mediate changes in behavior; and 3) The relationship between genes and behavior is highly conserved, from animals to humans.
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37. Nature, Labor, Money: Flashpoints of Capitalist Crisis in the 21st Century (1:20:51)

Date:
2011-01-25
Main contributors:
Nancy Fraser
Summary:
The thought of Karl Polanyi can shed some much-needed critical light on the present crisis of neoliberalism. His 1944 book, The Great Transformation, traced a previous crisis of capitalism to efforts to commodify land, labor, and money. In Polanyi's view, it was the attempt to turn these three fundamental bases of human society into objects of exchange on self-regulating markets that triggered a crisis of multiple dimensions, not just economic and financial, but also ecological, social, and political. The effects were so destabilizing as to spark an ongoing counter-movement aimed at protecting society and nature from the ravages of the market. The end result was fascism and world war. Although developed for an earlier era, Polanyi's diagnosis is relevant today. Our crisis, too, can be fruitfully analyzed as a great transformation, in which a new round of efforts to commodify land, labor, and money is sparking a new round of counter-movements for social protection. Yet despite its evident merits, such an approach fails to capture the full range of social injustices and social struggles in contemporary capitalism. Thus, Polanyi's framework needs to be reconstructed in a form that is adequate for critical theorizing in the twenty-first century. In this lecture, Fraser will examine Polanyi's concept of fictitious commodification. After proposing a post-metaphysical reinterpretation of this concept, she will use it to analyze burgeoning markets in nature, reproductive labor, and finance as flashpoints of the current crisis of neoliberalism. The result will be a revised understanding of commodification that better grasps both the system dynamics and the normative deficits of contemporary capitalism.
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39. Marketization, Social Protection, Emancipation: Grammars of Struggle in Capitalist Crisis (1:50:51)

Date:
2011-01-27
Main contributors:
Nancy Fraser
Summary:
Nancy Fraser Nancy Fraser Marketization, Social Protection, Emancipation: Grammars of Struggle in Capitalist Crisis Thursday, January 27, 2011 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM Rawles Hall 100 In this lecture, Fraser will examine Polanyi's conception of the double movement. Seeking to expand his idea of a two-sided conflict between partisans of deregulated markets and proponents of social protection, she will incorporate a third pole of social movement, aimed at emancipation. The result will be a revised understanding of the grammar of social conflict that better reflects the social struggles of the twenty-first century.
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41. Life on a Young Planet (1:23:14)

Date:
2010-02-09
Main contributors:
Andrew H. Knoll
Summary:
Shells, bones, tracks, and trails record a history of animal evolution more than 600 million years long. Earth, however, is some four and a half billion years old. What kinds of life characterized our planet's youth and middle age? Genealogical relationships among living organisms, inferred from molecular sequence comparisons, suggest that the deep history of life is microbial, and over the past three decades, paleontologists have discovered a rich record of microbial life in rocks that long predate the earliest animals. Geochemical research has established a complementary record of environmental change, with major transitions that parallel those found among fossils. The general pattern that emerges is one of long-term co-evolution between life and environments throughout our planetary history.
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42. Adaptation Strategies: A Poor Man's Solution? (1:06:43)

Date:
2010-10-12
Main contributors:
Jean Palutikof
Summary:
This presentation looks at what we must do to adapt to climate change-the size of the threat, and what we can do. It attempts to answer two fundamental questions: first, how must our lifestyle change in order to live with climate change and, second, can developing countries limit their emissions as they strive to improve living standards?
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43. Better Doctors, Better Patients, Better Decisions (1:35:21)

Date:
2014-03-25
Main contributors:
Gerd Gigerenzer
Summary:
In modern high-tech health care, patients appear to be the stumbling block: an uninformed, anxious, noncompliant folk with unhealthy lifestyles who demand treatments advertised by celebrities, insist on unnecessary but expensive imaging, and may eventually turn into plaintiffs. Patients’ lack of health literacy has received much attention. But what about their physicians? I show that the majority of doctors are innumerate, that is, they do not understand basic health statistics. An estimated 70%–80% of them do not understand what the results of screening tests mean. This engenders superfluous treatment, anxiety, and healthcare costs. As a consequence, the ideals of informed consent and shared decision-making remain a pipedream; both doctors and patients are habitually misled by biased information in health brochures and advertisements. I argue that the problem is not simply in the minds of doctors, but in the way health statistics are framed in journals and brochures. A quick and efficient cure is to teach efficient risk communication that fosters transparency as opposed to confusion. I report studies with doctors, medical students, and patients that show how transparent framing helps them understand health statistics in an hour or two. Raising taxes or rationing care is often seen as the only viable alternative to exploding health care costs. Yet there is a third option: by promoting health literacy, better care is possible for less money.
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44. African American Intellectuals in Europe in the Interwar Period (1:06:02)

Date:
2009-01-20
Main contributors:
Werner Sollors
Summary:
In the period that witnessed the rise of communism and its transformation into Stalinism, the emergence of fascism, and two momentous "interwar wars," numerous African American intellectuals met their counterparts in Europe. Encounters include: Counte Cullen and Claire Goll (Paris), Claude McKay, Alain Locke, and George Grosz (Paris, Berlin, Moscow), McKay, Vladimir Mayakovsky, and Leon Trotsky (Soviet Union), Horace Cayton and Nancy Cunard (Paris and Hamburg),Alain Locke and the "Black Watch on the Rhine" (French-occupied Rhineland), Langston Hughes, James Yates, and the Spanish Civil War,and W.E.B. Du Bois in Nazi Germany. Common human misunderstandings create a comedy of intellectuals against the climate of political violence in interwar Europe.
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45. Analyzing ordinal data with metric models: What could possibly go wrong? (1:14:09)

Date:
2018-03-23
Main contributors:
John K. Kruschke
Summary:
(With co-author Torrin M. Liddell, Research and Statistics Analyst, Public Defender Commission, Indianapolis) We surveyed all articles in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Psychological Science, and the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General that mentioned the term "Likert," and found that 100% of the articles that analyzed ordinal data did so using a metric model. We demonstrate that analyzing ordinal data as if they were metric can systematically lead to errors. We demonstrate false alarms (i.e., detecting an effect where none exists, Type~I errors) and failures to detect effects (i.e., loss of power, Type~II errors). We demonstrate systematic inversions of effects, for which treating ordinal data as metric indicates the opposite ordering of means than the true ordering of means. We show the same problems --- false alarms, misses, and inversions --- for interactions in factorial designs and for trend analyses in regression. We demonstrate that averaging across multiple ordinal measurements does not solve or even ameliorate these problems. We provide simple graphical explanations of why these mistakes occur. Moreover, we point out that there is no sure-fire way to detect these problems by treating the ordinal values as metric, and instead we advocate use of ordered-probit models (or similar) because they will better describe the data. Finally, although frequentist approaches to some ordered-probit models are available, we use Bayesian methods because of their flexibility in specifying models and their richness and accuracy in providing parameter estimates.
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46. Grant Application Workshop for Early-Career Social Scientists (2:47:09)

Date:
2018-09-28
Main contributors:
Werum, Regina
Summary:
This workshop will include an introduction to proposal writing and best practices, as well as a discussion of funding opportunities for social science and social science methodology.
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47. On Air with IER: Episode 122 (24:03)

Date:
2023-02-06
Main contributors:
Edwards, Beth, Saenz, Enrique
Summary:
This week: We take a look at a pair of energy bills making their way through the Indiana General Assembly and one bill that seeks to make the state public retirement system another front in the right wing culture war.
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48. On Air with IER: Episode 123 (22:07)

Date:
2023-02-27
Main contributors:
Edwards, Beth, Saenz, Enrique
Summary:
This week: Indiana joins a legal challenge against the Biden administration's expansion of federal protection for waterways, and Peru, Indiana residents brace for the results of an investigation into toxic TCE migrating from former Schneider Electric Square D manufacturing plant.
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49. Interview with Frank Ahlgren (1:02:16)

Date:
1984-10-08
Main contributors:
Howard, Roy Wilson, 1883-1964, Ahlgren, Frank, Gray, Richard
Summary:
The Roy Howard Archive Oral History Collection. Interviewer Richard Gray.
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50. On Air with IER: Episode 45 (31:54)

Date:
2019-11-25
Main contributors:
Edwards, Beth, Saenz, Enrique
Summary:
This week: We talked to a former Russian army soldier who survived the Chernobyl nuclear accident in 1986 and eventually made his way to the U.S. He thought his first brush with environmental disaster would be his last. He was wrong. Plus, a federal report found that half of Indiana's toxic Superfund sites could be affected by flooding due to climate change.
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