HISTORY 21C Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Diego Rivera, Vladimir Lenin, World War I
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Day 1: intro to class and intro to readings. 11:18 am: class about late 19th-20th century: making of modernity + creation of nations. Look @ struggles of nations too + changes for many different groups (like women: try to understand globalization. Lots of mass migration, development of tech, development of commodities, movement of corporations. Concept of nation state incredibly new produced by world processes of 19th and 20th century. Before that, organized world by empires: after wwi, collapse of empires, wwii, death blow to empires, 20th century incredibly violent, world capitalism during this time >so much ecological destruction. Rockefeller super excited about this mural until he saw vladimir lenin in it then there was an argument >rivera tore it down because he refused to change it. Painted the mural years later for a museum which is why we have it now.
