HIST 4600Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Richard Overy
25 Oct 2015
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Episode 3: the goths ride east (1997: a joint anglo-russian production. Russian historians dmitrii volkogonov (stalin"s biographer) and mikhail semiriaga served as consultants and appear on screen. On the british side, richard overy, the noted historian of wwii on the. Eastern front, served as an advisor: a ten episode series covering the period 1924 to stalin"s death in 1953. Eight of the episodes focus on wwii: stunned stalin allowing valuable hours to passed before returning fire, red army commanders losing control of their units without connect from the. Germans and greet with flowers as they pass while men destroy the memories of. Stalin (who terrorized them for years: order number 270 execution of traitors, arresting the wives as well, no allowances made for the law stalin"s own son and daughter-in-law were arrested. 450,000 people digging trenches and expanding the city limits.
