2. What is lebensraum? How did it serve as a reason for war?




Thomas Mann (pg. 365-367)


1. How did the psychological mood of Europe change so that parties like the Nazis could emerge?

2. What did Mann mean by “politics becomes an opiate of the masses”? (Perry 367)

Yevgeny Yevtushenko (pg 348-349)

1. What is the thesis of Yevtushenko’s piece?



2. What was Stalin’s greatest crime? How was he able to accomplish this?


3. How are Yevtushenko and other artists like him the best examples of Stalin’s unchecked power?


Heubeck, Rob. Totalitarianism Questions from Perry, (2005), Europe Between the Wars [core] Class Material