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xliii, 757 pages, 14 unnumbered pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
What is Europe? -- European age -- December 14, 1900 -- The democracies and their dilemmas -- The authoritarian states -- Foreign policies -- European peripheries -- End of hegemony -- World War I -- War's immediate impact: Russian and other revolutions -- The consequences of the peace -- Hard landings: from crisis to false prosperity -- An age of dictators -- The Great Depression Era and the liberal democracies -- The crisis of democracy in Eastern and Southern Europe -- Mussolini's Fascism -- Stalin's Communism -- 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 -- Dual Europe -- 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 -- 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.
Includes bibliographical references (pages xlii-xliii) and index.
007016052X (soft cover : acid-free paper)