Table of Contents

Introduction to the series
Acknowledgements
Chronology

PART ONE: THE BACKGROUND

1. What Kind of Crisis?

PART TWO: ANALYSIS

2. Revolution and Counter-Revolution
The Russian Revolution
Exporting the Revolution
The failure of revolution

3. A Crisis of Modernisation
The challenge of modernity
The conservative revolt

4. The `End of Civilisation’
Decline of the West
Science and civilisation
Women, sex and moral decline
Psycho-Analysis and the Modern Malaise
War and civilisation

5. The `Great Crash’: Capitalism in Crisis
The causes of the Crash
The effects of the recession
The search for recovery
The end of capitalism?

6. Democracy and Dictatorship
The decline of democracy
The appeal of dictatorship
The `New Order’ in Politics

7. The International Crisis
The unsettled peace
The world crisis
The slide to war

PART THREE: ASSESSMENT

8. The Challenge of Progress

PART FOUR: DOCUMENTS

Glossary
Who’s Who
Bibliography

Index

About the Author

R. J. Overy is Professor of History at the University of Exeter. He has written numerous books on the Third Reich, the Second World War and air warfare including: The Air War 1939-1945 (2nd ed., 2006), Why the Allies Won (2nd ed., 2006) and The Dictators: Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia (2004) which won both the Wolfson and the Hessell Tiltman Prizes for History in 2005.