Class #1

Instructor: Peter Kirchikov
Date: Wed, Nov. 4, 2009
Location: BPUMC, Bluff Park United Methodist Church, Hoover, Alabama
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Admission: free

Political, military and economic cooperation between the Third Reich and USSR, 1933-1940


 Germany's loss in WWI, Versailles Treaty of 1918 and strive for revenge
 Economic and political cooperation between Nazi Germany and the USSR in the 1930s
 1939 economic and political deals: The von Ribbentrop-Molotov Ten Year Non-Aggression Pact 
with secret protocols of Aug. 23, 1939 and division of the "spheres of influence"
 Nazi theory of the USSR.
 Third Reich's goals in WWII and preparations for the WWII
 USSR's goals in WW II
 The Outbreak of the WW II.



Class #2

Instructor: Peter Kirchikov
Date: Wed, Nov. 11, 2009
Location: BPUMC, Bluff Park United Methodist Church, Hoover, Alabama
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Admission: free

Holocaust in the Nazi-occupied territories of the USSR, 1941-1944

 Operation " Barbarossa"
 The Role of Einsatzgruppen in the Nazi-occupied territories of the USSR, 1941-1944
 Nazi persecution and extermination campaigns in Nazi-occupied
territories of the USSR, 1941-1944
 Hitler's  "Final solution of the Jewish question"-mass extermination
of Jews in Babiy Yar, near Kiev, Ukraine.
 Nazi concentration camps in the USSR, the tragedy of the village of
Khatyn', Byelorussia, etc.
 Resistance/partisan/guerilla movement in the USSR during 1941-1944
 900 days of the worst  WWII tragedy-- starving to death the city of
Leningrad. Tanya Savicheva's diary- a powerful testimony to the Nazis'
Holocaust in the USSR



Class #3

Instructor: Peter Kirchikov
Date: Wed, Nov. 18, 2009
Location: BPUMC, Bluff Park United Methodist Church, Hoover, Alabama
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Admission: free

The USSR in the WW II: the course of the war from ex-Soviet's perspective, 1941-1944


 Operation "Barbarossa"
 The USSR's  initial defeats and failures in WW II.
 Stalin's cult of personality, Great Purges/Great Terror/Last Show
Trial and his own "Final solution of the Soviet Jewish question"
 The major highlights of the WWII in the USSR- the battles of
Moscow, Stalingrad, Kursk, Kiev, Minsk, Odessa, the siege of Leningrad.
 The role of the Soviet defense industry during WWII in the
Nazi-occupied territories of the USSR, 1941-1944.
 The Soviet Red Army's role in WWII.
 The role of the Soviet common people in WWII
 Allied victory, V-E Day and outcome of the WWII.
 The traditions and customs of recognizing the USSR's  WWII veterans