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. Personal stories from behind the Iron Curtain
    1. Planning an Escape for 13 years: How One Family Outsmarted the Iron Curtain, from Cold War Conversations
    2. The 2nd Most Famous Voice in Cold War Romania, from Cold War Conversations
  6. 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 
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. The future of Eastern accession to the EU - tepsa.eu/tepsa-videos/building-a-new-future-for-eu-enlargement-discussion-with-frank-schimmelfennig/​
  10. Ukraine's resistance
    1. Intent to Destroy, with Eugene Finkel 
  11. Russia's War on the West
    1. In Putin's Shadow's, the Baltic States, DW documentary
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