The first fifty years of Europe’s twentieth century were racked by violence, bloodshed and extraordinary political, economic, and socio-cultural changes. Between 1914 and 1918, an […]
Introduction: What Was Europe’s “Interwar Crisis”?
Conclusion: Are We Living in Another “Interwar Crisis”?
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The Collapse of Democracy and the Rise of Authoritarianism in Interwar Europe
World War II (WWII) has always a special place in the imagination of the public, often quoted as “The Just War” with the perfect clear […]
The Paradox of International Peace During the Power Struggles of the Interwar Period
The Great War was one of total destruction from industrialized warfare, claiming the lives of millions, turning lush acres into wastelands, and deteriorating the moral […]
Gustave Le Bon, The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind (1895)
In the late-19th century, intellectuals began probing the depths of the human mind, trying to account for consciousness, and what, at the foundation of our […]
Arnold Schoenberg, “Five Pieces for Orchestra” (1909)
Most widely known for his innovations in “atonality”—which, in its broadest sense, is music that lacks a tonal center, or key—Arnold Schoenberg’s turn-of-the-century compositions capture […]
Giacomo Balla, “Noise-Making Onomatopaeia Typewriter” (1914)
Composed in 1914 by the Italian Futurist poet, painter, and musician, Giacomo Balla, “Noise-Making Onomatopaeia Typewriter” was a performance piece which required a “rhythmical repetition […]
Ivor Novello and Lena Guilbert Ford, “Keep the Home Fires Burning” (1914)
Composed by Ivor Novello and Lena Guilbert Ford in 1914, “Keep the Home Fires Burning” was a popular WWI-era British patriotic song. The following is […]
Eugene Debs, “Canton Speech” (1918)
While American soldiers were off fighting a “bourgeois war” on the Continent, Eugene Debs—a railroad union leader and outspoken socialist politician—delivered an incendiary, anti-war speech […]
Original (Silent) Footage of the Treaty of Versailles (1919)
Signed between Germany and the Allied Powers on June 28, 1919 (exactly five years to the very day since the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand […]