Sources of European history since 1900
By: [compiled by] Marvin Perry, Matthew Berg, James Krukones
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Wadsworth Cengage Learning
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Boston, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 508
ISBN-13: 9781424069675
Other titles: Sources of twentieth-century Europe.
Description: This reader uses primary sources to illuminate the intellectual, political, and cultural history of Europe from 1900 to the present.  Each part, chapter, and section contains an introduction that explains the historical seeing and significance of the readings within.
Notes: First edition published as: Sources of twentieth-century Europe. Boston, MA : Houghton Mifflin, 2000.
Table of contents: title: The nineteenth-century inheritance.  The evolution of liberalism ; Feminism and antifeminism ; Racial nationalism ; Imperialism ; Anti-Semitism: regression to mythical thinking ; Irrationalism; title: World War I.  Militarism ; Pan-Serbism: nationalism, terrorism, and assassination ; War as celebration: the mood in European capitals ; Trench warfare ; Women at war ; The Turkish assault on Armenians ; The Paris Peace Conference ; The war and European consciousness; title: The Russian Revolution and the Soviet Union.  Russian security before World War I ; The revolution o f 1905 ; The provisional government in disarray ; The Bolshevik Revolution ; The Russian Civil War ; Disillusionment with Bolshevik rule ; Modernize or perish ; Forced collectivization ; Soviet indoctrination ; Stalin's terror; title: An era of Fascism.  The rise of Fascism in Italy ; The fledgling Weimar Republic ; The great depression ; The rise of Hitler ; The leader-state ; The Nazification of culture and society ; Nazi persecution of the Jews ; The Spanish Civil War ; The anguish of the intellectuals; title: World War II.  Prescient observers of Nazi Germany ; Fascist aggression: Italy's invasion of Ethiopia ; Remilitarization of the Rhineland ; The Anschluss, March 1938 ; The Munich Agreement ; World War II begins ; The fall of France ; The Battle of Britain ; The indoctrination of the German soldier: for Volk, Führer and fatherland ; Stalingrad ; The Holocaust ; Resistance ; D-Day, June 6, 1944 ; The end of the Third Reich; title: Western Europe: the dawn of a new era.  The aftermath: devastation and hope ; The recent past and Western consciousness ; The new West Germany: democratic government, the Nazi past, and the economic miracle ; The Cold War; title: The Eastern Bloc, 1945-1981.  The "people's democracies" ; Repression in the Soviet Union and its satellites ; Dissidence and popular revolt ; Solidarity; title: Western Europe since the 1960s.  Social and cultural criticism ; Conflicting approaches to industrial relations ; The new right ; Ethnic minorities ; Coming to terms with the past: reflections on the Holocaust; title: The collapse of Communism.  A tottering old regime ; Popular protest and dissolution ; The trauma of transition from Communism; title: Europe today.  European Union: growing interdependence ; Anti-Americanism in contemporary Europe ; Russia: creeping autocracy and burgeoning nationalism ; Islam in Europe: failure of assimilation and the threat of terrorism ; The new anti-Semitism: old hatreds revived ; In defense of European values.