The Fall And Rise Of Europe: A Political, Social, And Cultural History Of The Twentieth Century

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Author(s): Henry M. Pachter
Publisher: David & Charles
Year: 1975

Language: English
Pages: 482
City: London

The Fall and Rise of Europe
Contents
Illustrations
Foreword
Part I: The Apex of European Culture and Power (1900-1914)
Chapter 1: European Society Before 1914
Chapter 2: The Greatness and Decline of Liberalism
Chapter 3: The New Industrial Revolution
Chapter 4: Imperialism
Chapter 5: The New Right
Chapter 6: Christian Responses
Chapter 7: A View from Below
Chapter 8: Women and Children
Chapter 9: The Labor Movement
Chapter 10: The First Russian Revolution
Chapter 11: Fissues in the Structure
Chapter 12: The Road to War
Part II: The Crisis of the European Spirit
Chapter 1: The Cultural Rebellion
Chapter 2: Mass Culture and Middle-Class Culture
Chapter 3: The Creators of Modern Art
Chapter 4: Literary Perspectives
Chapter 5: The Emancipation of the Senses
Chapter 6: Science and Philosophy at the Crossroads
Chapter 7: Undertakers of Western Civilization
Part III: Wars and Revolutions (1914-23)
Chapter 1: War as Revolution
Chapter 2: The End of the Dynasties
Chapter 3: The Bolshevik Revolution
Chapter 4: European Revolutions
Chapter 5: The New Order of Europe
Part IV: The Periclean Age of Europe (1924-33) I: Politics
Chapter 1: The Thirty Year's Peace
Chapter 2: The New Social Structure
Chapter 3: Experiments in Democracy
Chapter 4: Weimar and Vienna--Two Splendid Failures
Chapter 5: Experiments in Dictatorship
Chapter 6: Socialism in One Country
Chapter 7: The Great Depression
Part V: The Periclean Age of Europe (1924-33) II: Culture
Chapter 1: Life and Expression in the 1920's
Chapter 2: The Lively Arts--Popular Culture
Chapter 3: Literature, the Arts, and Society Between the Wars
Chapter 4: Soviet Art and Literature
Chapter 5: Science, Philosophy, and Religion Between the Wars
Part VI: The Eclipse of Europe (1933-45)
Chapter 1: Failure of Nerve
Chapter 2: The Rise of Integral Nationalism
Chapter 3: The Age of Fascism
Chapter 4: The Popular Front and the Spanish Civil War
Chapter 5: The Moscow Trials
Chapter 6: The Collapse of the European System
Chapter 7: The Second World War
Chapter 8: The Powers and the Peoples
Part VII: A Divided Europe 1945-58
Chapter 1: Heritage of the War
Chapter 2: The Partition of Europe and the "Cold War"
Chapter 3: The Reconstruction of Western Europe
Chapter 4: The Soviet Empire
Chapter 5: Tito's "Special Way"
Chapter 6: The "Third Force"
Chapter 7: End of Empire
Part VIII: Eastern Europe After Stalin
Chapter 1: The Thaw
Chapter 2: The Khrushchev Era
Chapter 3: The Politics of Coexistence
Chapter 4: Crisis of Empire
Chapter 5: Polycentrism and Revisionism in Eastern Europe
Chapter 6: The Fall of Khrushchev and the New Party Regime
Chapter 7: Spring in Prague, Followed by Winter in the Empire
Chapter 8: Some Notes on Soviet Culture
Part IX: Post-War Society in Western Europe
Chapter 1: The Welfare State
Chapter 2: Technology and Science in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century
Chapter 3: The Third Industrial Revolution and the New Class
Chapter 4: The End of Ideology
Chapter 5: The Youth Culture
Part X: Culture and Society
Chapter 1: Engaged Literature and Its Disengagement
Chapter 2: Further Developments of the Consumer Culture in the 1950's and 1960's
Chapter 3: Esoteric Art
Chapter 4: Observations on Post-war Movies
Chapter 5: Some Observations on the Stage
Chapter 6: Theology Without God
Chapter 7: The Two Cultures
Part XI: The Resurrection of Europe (1958-74)
Chapter 1: Winds of Change
Chapter 2: The End of the Sterling Club
Chapter 3: Reaction and Reform in Outer Europe
Chapter 4: De Gaulle's Fifth Republic
Chapter 5: May in Paris
Chapter 6: The Northern Countries
Chapter 7: Problems of Nationhood
Chapter 8: Europe, America, and the World
A Bibliographical Note
Index of Names
Index of Countries, Cities, and Nationalities