Research Catalog

Title

The inter-war crisis / Richard Overy.

Author

Overy, R. J.

Publication

London ; New York : Routledge, [2017]

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Details

Description

xx, 166 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm

Series Statement

Seminar studies in history

Uniform Title

Seminar studies in history

Subject

• History, Modern > 20th century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages [151]-159) and index.

Contents

• Pt. 1 The background -- 1.What kind of crisis? -- pt. 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 ènd of civilization' -- Decline of the west -- Science and civilization -- Women, sex and moral decline -- Psychoanalysis and the modern malaise -- War and civilization -- 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 ǹew order' in politics -- 7.The international crisis -- The unsettled peace -- The world crisis -- The slide to war -- pt. 3 Assessment -- 8.The challenge of progress -- pt. 4 Documents -- 1.The disillusionment of war -- 2.Nietzsche and liberalism --
• Note continued: 3.Stemming ̀racial degeneration' -- 4.Trotsky's ̀permanent revolution' -- 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.Ìmpersonalization' 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 -- 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 --
• Note continued: 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.

Call Number

JFE 16-10901

ISBN

• 9781138124110 (hardback : alk. paper)
• 1138124117 (hardback : alk. paper)
• 9781138963252 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 1138963259 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2016004660

OCLC

958298003

Author

Overy, R. J., author.

Title

The inter-war crisis / Richard Overy.

Publisher

London ; New York : Routledge, [2017]

Edition

3rd edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Seminar studies in history

Seminar studies in history

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages [151]-159) and index.

Research Call Number

JFE 16-10901