Final Year History: Totalitarian Regimes Course
This Final Year History course compares how Hitler and Stalin established and sustained totalitarian regimes in Nazi Germany and Stalinist USSR. It equips humanities educators with comparative frameworks, detailed case studies, primary sources, and practical teaching and assessment strategies for effective instruction.

4 to 360h flexible workload
certificate valid in your country
What will I learn?
This course provides a comparative analysis of Stalinist USSR and Nazi Germany, examining ideology, rise to power, propaganda, economic policies, social control, and daily life. Students develop analytical skills using primary sources and assessments to understand totalitarian systems, their legitimacy, and societal impacts.
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Develop skills
- Analyze the rise of totalitarian leaders like Hitler and Stalin amid crises and power struggles.
- Map mechanisms of party and police control including NSDAP, CPSU, Gestapo, SS, and NKVD.
- Evaluate propaganda, education, and culture as instruments of mass political control.
- Interpret daily life, economic policies, and social controls under Nazi and Soviet regimes.
- Design effective comparative history tasks, activities, and assessments for teaching.
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