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
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’
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
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