ISBN:
9781558627215
,
1558627219
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xxvi, 382 p)
,
ill., maps
Series Statement:
Gale eBooks
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als History in dispute, Volume 17
DDC:
303.484094
Keywords:
Social movements
;
World politics 20th century
;
World history
;
History, Modern 20th century
;
Europe History 20th century
;
Europe Politics and government 20th century
;
Europe Social conditions 20th century
;
Europe Foreign relations
;
Europe Civilization 20th century
Abstract:
Age of progress -- Americanization -- Britain as part of Europe -- Class identities -- Communists intellectuals -- Cultural watershed -- Economic and political changes -- European integration -- European socialism -- Existentialism -- The Far Right after 1945 -- French and Russian Revolutions -- Genocide -- German cultural figures -- German economic crisis -- Great Depression -- Green Parties -- International fascism -- International justice -- Leninism v. Stalinism -- Mass education and culture -- Nationalism -- Nazism and communism -- Origins of fascism -- Pacifism -- Public intellectuals -- Public opinion -- Punishing former communists -- Russia as part of the West -- Short twentieth century -- Spanish Civil War -- Stalin's economic policies -- Thought and culture -- Ukranian famine -- Welfare state -- Women.
Abstract:
Addresses heavily debated questions by offering different critical perspectives on major historical events, drawn from all time periods and from all parts of the globe. This volume covers twentieth-century European social and political movements. Provides students with an enhanced understanding of events only summarized in history texts, helps stimulate critical thinking and provides ideas for papers and assignments
Note:
"A Manly, Inc. Book."
,
Includes bibliographical references and index
URL:
Available via Gale eBooks. Click here to access
URL:
Available via Gale eBooks. Click here to access
Permalink
