"The Spanish Civil War has gone down in history for the horrific violence that it generated. The climate of euphoria and hope that greeted the overthrow of the Spanish monarchy was utterly transformed just five years later by a cruel and destructive civil war. Here Julián Casano…
Vinteren 1936 ble en anmeldelse trykket i Pravda. Den var så full av grammatiske feil at den måtte komme fra en hvis penn ingen turte å rette. Mannen som hadde skrevet den var Stalin. I harde ordelag omtalte han Sjostakovitsj' opera "Lady Macbeth fra Mtsensk". I anmeldelsen het …
"Rich in implications for our present era of media change, The Promise of Cinema offers a compelling new vision of film theory. The volume conceives of "theory" not as a fixed body of canonical texts, but as a dynamic set of reflections on the very idea of cinema and the possibi…
"Today Mussolini is remembered as a hated dictator who, along with Hitler and Stalin, ushered in an era of totalitarian repression unsurpassed in human history. But how was he viewed by ordinary Italians during his lifetime? In Fascist Voices, Christopher Duggan draws on thousan…
"Understanding the Great Depression has never been more relevant than in today's economic crisis. This edited collection provides an authoritative introduction to the Great Depression as it affected the advanced countries in the 1930s. The contributions are by acknowledged exper…
This text brings together contributions written by internationally distinguished economic historians. The editors explore the current fascination with the 1930s Great Depression and link it with the Great Recession which began in 2007 and still poses a threat to economic stabili…
"'An Ecology of the Russian Avant-Garde Picturebook' takes a new approach to interpreting 1920s and 1930s picturebooks by prominent Russian writers, artists, and intellectuals by examining them within the ecological environment that, first, made them possible and, then, led to t…
Although Latin America weathered the Great Depression better than the United States and Europe, the global economic collapse of the 1930s had a deep and lasting impact on the region. The contributors to this book examine the consequences of the Depression in terms of the role of…
