THE AGE OF REVOLUTION 1789-1848 THE AGE OF CAPITAL 1848-1875 THE AGE OF EMPIRE 1875-1914

Age of Extremes

THE SHORT TWENTIETH CENTURY 1914-1991

Eric Hobsbawm

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First published in Great Britain by Michael Joseph 1994 This edition published by Abacus 1995

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Contents
Illustrations
Preface and Acknowledgements
The Century: A Bird's Eye View
The Age of Total War
The World Revolution
Into the Economic Abyss
Chapter Four. The Fall of Liberalism
Against the Common Enemy
The Arts 1914-1945
End of Empires
Cold War
Chapter Nine. The Golden Years
The Social Revolution 1945-1990
Cultural Revolution
The Third World
‘Real Socialism
The Crisis Decades
Third World and Revolution
Chapter Sixteen. End of Socialism [The] health [of revolutionary Russia], however, is subject to one indispensable condition: that never (as one day happened even to the Church) should a black market of power be opened. Should the European correlation of power and money penetrate Russian too, then perhaps not the country, perhaps not even the Party, but Communism in Russia would be lost.
Chapter Seventeen The Avant-garde Dies — The Arts After 1950
Chapter Eighteen Sorcerers and Apprentices -The Natural Sciences
Towards the Millennium
References
Further Reading
Index

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