Format:
1 Online-Ressource (189 pages)
Edition:
Third edition
ISBN:
9781134856619
,
9781315543482
Series Statement:
Seminar studies
Content:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of maps -- Chronology -- Who's who -- Part 1 The background -- 1 What kind of crisis? -- Part 2 Analysis -- 2 Revolution and counter-revolution -- The Russian Revolution -- Exporting the revolution -- The failure of revolution -- 3 A crisis of modernization -- The challenge of modernity -- The conservative revolt -- 4 The 'end of civilization' -- Decline of the west -- Science and civilization -- Women, sex and moral decline -- Psychoanalysis and the modern malaise -- War and civilization
Content:
5 The 'Great Crash': Capitalism in crisis -- The causes of the crash -- The effects of the recession -- The search for recovery -- The end of capitalism? -- 6 Democracy and dictatorship -- The decline of democracy -- The appeal of dictatorship -- The 'new order' in politics -- 7 The international crisis -- The unsettled peace -- The world crisis -- The slide to war -- Part 3 Assessment -- 8 The challenge of progress -- Part 4 Documents -- 1 The disillusionment of war -- 2 Nietzsche and liberalism -- 3 Stemming 'racial degeneration' -- 4 Trotsky's 'permanent revolution'
Content:
5 The revolutionary threat -- 6 The revenge of the right -- 7 The legacy of 1917 -- 8 A bright new tomorrow -- 9 Contraception and race -- 10 Old and new in a Russian village -- 11 'Impersonalization' and the machine age -- 12 The national socialist appeal to the peasantry -- 13 Rejecting the department store -- 14 A 'Jew-free' Vienna -- 15 The suicide of civilization -- 16 Race mixture and the future of civilization -- 17 The population problem -- 18 The German sterilization law -- 19 The over-sexed girl -- 20 The end of the enlightenment -- 21 The psychological dilemma of modern man
Content:
22 Descent into barbarism -- 23 The 'golden age' of free trade -- 24 Living with inflation -- 25 Time on their hands -- 26 The 'collective' economy -- 27 Lenin rejects democracy -- 28 French politics in crisis, 6 February 1934 -- 29 Mussolini defines fascism -- 30 The democratic crisis -- 31 Popular enthusiasm for Hitler -- 32 Building the Soviet superpower -- 33 Japan, the 'have-not' state -- 34 Hitler's idea of 'living space' -- 35 Face to face with Hitler -- 36 The destruction of Guernica -- 37 The clash of ideals -- Glossary -- Guide to Further Reading -- Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781138124110
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781138963252
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Overy, Richard The Inter-War Crisis ISBN 9781138963252
Language:
English
Keywords:
Weltgeschichte
;
Geschichte 1919-1939
;
Electronic books
Author information:
Overy, Richard J. 1947-
