This is a compilation of clips, videos, podcasts and movies that I use to assist the teaching of POLS 236 East European Politics and Government. This list is up-to-date as of January 2024. 

  1. Map animation and narration of the Eastern front of World War II, 1944-1945: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AUdP-QVEKA
  2. Communist takeover of Eastern Europe:
    1. 2013 Cundill Prize - Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956 interview with Anne Applebaum www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ji1TVVc_YA
    2. The Soviet occupation of Bulgaria and communist takeover - Occupation or Liberation documentary https://frontfilm.net/occupation-or-liberation/
    3. The Sovietization of Poland - short online lecture www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQQgFLKF1ZQ
    4. The Sovietization of Bulgaria and Romania - short online lecture  www.youtube.com/watch?v=O42dIoIyM00The 
  3. Leninist state and command economy:
    1. Beyond the Wall: Life in Communist and Post-Soviet Europe (full feature film, many university libraries own it.  films.com/ecTitleDetail.aspx?TitleID=27082&r=SR
    2. Life in 're-education camp in Bulgaria'. To Outlive the System https://vimeo.com/766837494
  4. Resisting the Soviet rule
    1. Hungary 1956 events 
      1. shorter video https://www.rferl.org/a/remembering-the-1956-hungarian-uprising/30232267.html 
      2. A longer documentary www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqcnlfC-rv8​
    2. Prague Spring 
      1. shorter video clip https://www.rferl.org/a/prague-spring-invasion-czech-soviet/29435069.html
      2. A longer documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUlxvU_b3pc 
  5. Revolutions of 1989 and the fall of the Berlin Wall 
    1. An overview of the revolutions of 1989 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hc2XGHA7NK4
    2. Interview with Gale Stokes on the speed on the 1989 revolutions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i66xrfM5EDs  
    3. Shorter clip on the fall of the Berlin Wall https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIUd5Cc3S6I 
    4. Longer footage of the fall of the Berlin Wall https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xjqlwHvrYs 
    5. Goodbye Lenin. Many university libraries own the movie. www.imdb.com/title/tt0301357/
    6. The 'pan-European picnic' that brought down the iron curtain https://www.britannica.com/video/180285/visitors-German-Hungary-border-Austria-Pan-European-Picnic-1989 
    7. Romania's bloody revolution https://www.rferl.org/a/his-wife-died-in-his-arms-romania-s-bloody-1989-revolution-/30330123.html 
  6. The Fall of Yugoslavia
    1. Death of Yugoslavia BBC series www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdw7wnKe0wiUSNdugFGpnSfm6wt-9gvUt
    2. This American Life, episode 504, How I got into college, Emir Kamenica story www.thisamericanlife.org/504/how-i-got-into-college/act-two-6
  7. On democratic backsliding in Poland and Hungary - University of Pittsburgh, Jean Monnet European Center of Excellence, European Studies Center; Conversations on Europe Jan 16, 2020; www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1xnPSrwoVY
  8. The future of Eastern accession to the EU - tepsa.eu/tepsa-videos/building-a-new-future-for-eu-enlargement-discussion-with-frank-schimmelfennig/​
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