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The Age of Extremes
First published 1994
The Age of Extremes follows what Hobsbawm calls the short twentieth century, beginning with the First World War and ending with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Its first half treats the world wars, the Russian Revolution, economic depression, fascism and the destruction of the European-dominated international order.
The later chapters examine post-war reconstruction, the Cold War, decolonisation, communist China, welfare states and the long economic expansion after 1945. Hobsbawm then traces the crises of the 1970s and 1980s, the weakening of both capitalist and communist systems, and the political uncertainty that followed the Soviet bloc’s collapse.
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