Table of Contents

Part 1 The age of catastrophe: total wars; the world revolution; into the economic abyss; the fall of liberalism; against the common enemy - the 1930s and 1940s; the arts 1914-45; the end of empires. Part 2 The golden age: the Cold War; the golden years; social revolution; cultural revolution; the Third World; real socialism. Part 3 The landslide: the crisis decades; the Third World and revolution; the fall of socialism; the avant-garde dies; sorcerers and apprentices - science; a millennium dies.