European University Institute Library

Europe's long century, society, politics, and culture, 1900-present, Spencer M. Di Scala

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Europe's long century

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Spencer M. Di Scala

society, politics, and culture, 1900-present

December 14, 1900 -- The democracies and their dilemmas -- The authoritarian states -- Foreign policies -- European peripheries -- World War I -- The War's immediate impact : the Russian and other revolutions -- The consequences of the peace -- Hard landings : from crisis to false prosperity -- The Great Depression and the liberal democracies -- The crisis of democracy in Eastern and Southern Europe -- Mussolini's fascism -- Stalin's communism -- The Nazi assault on Weimar -- Hitler's Nazism -- Interwar society and culture -- Diplomacy between the wars : the collapse of peace -- The German tide over Europe -- Inside Hitler's Europe : military occupation and genocide -- How the war was won -- Making postwar Europe -- Economic integration and political stabilization in the West -- Failure of EFTA and expansion of the European Community -- Decolonization -- Stalinism and "actually existing socialism" -- De-Stalinization and destabilization -- The shifting economic framework and political change in the West -- Cultural change and extremism in the West -- Continuity and change -- Evolution of society -- Cultural dimensions -- Stagnation and failed reform in the East -- The collapse of Communism -- Europe in a global age : problems and prospects