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The Lights that Failed - European International History 1919-1933 (Paperback, New Ed)
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The Lights that Failed - European International History 1919-1933 (Paperback, New Ed)
Series: Oxford History of Modern Europe
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The peace treaties represented an almost impossible attempt to
solve the problems caused by a murderous world war. In The Lights
that Failed: European International History 1919-1933, part of the
Oxford History of Modern Europe series, Steiner challenges the
common assumption that the Treaty of Versailles led to the opening
of a second European war. In a radically original way, this book
characterizes the 1920s not as a frustrated prelude to a second
global conflict but as a fascinating decade in its own right, when
politicians and diplomats strove to re-assemble a viable European
order. Steiner examines the efforts that failed but also those
which gave hope for future promise, many of which are usually
underestimated, if not ignored. She shows that an equilibrium was
achieved, attained between a partial American withdrawal from
Europe and the self-imposed constraints which the Soviet system
imposed on exporting revolution. The stabilization painfully
achieved in Europe reached it fragile limits after 1925, even prior
to the financial crises that engulfed the continent. The hinge
years between the great crash of 1929 and Hitler's achievement of
power in 1933 devastatingly altered the balance between nationalism
and internationalism. This wide-ranging study helps us grasp the
decisive stages in this process.
In a second volume, The Triumph of the Night, Steiner will examine
the immediate lead up to the Second World War and its early years.
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