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Author Ginsborg, Paul, author.

Title Family politics : domestic life, devastation and survival, 1900-1950 / Paul Ginsborg
Published New Haven : Yale University Press, [2014]

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 520 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (chiefly color)
Contents List of Illustrations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Revolutionising family life: Russia, 1917-1927 -- 2. The nest and the nation: family politics in the transition from Ottoman Empire to Turkish Republic, 1908-1938 -- 3. Fascism and the family -- 4. Family and family like in the Spanish Republic and the Civil War, 1931-1950 -- 5. 'The greater world and the smaller one': the politics of the family in Germany, 1918-1945 -- 6. Stalinism and Soviet families, 1927-1945 -- Some final considerations -- Notes -- Index
Summary "In this masterly twentieth-century history, Paul Ginsborg places the family at center stage, a novel perspective from which to examine key moments of revolution and dictatorship. His groundbreaking book spans 1900 to 1950 and encompasses five nation states in the throes of dramatic transition: Russia in revolutionary passage from Empire to Soviet Union; Turkey in transition from Ottoman Empire to modern Republic; Italy, from liberalism to fascism; Spain during the Second Republic and Civil War; and Germany from the failure of the Weimar Republic to the National Socialist state. Ginsborg explores the effects of political upheaval and radical social policies on family life and, in turn, the impact of families on revolutionary change itself. Families, he shows, do not simply experience the effects of political power, but are themselves actors in the historical process. The author brings human and personal elements to the fore with biographical details and individual family histories, along with a fascinating selection of family photographs and portraits. From WWI--an indelible backdrop and imprinting force on the first half of the twentieth century--to post-war dictatorial power and family engineering initiatives, to the conclusion of WWII, this book shines new light on the profound relations among revolution, dictatorship, and family"--Publisher's website
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
Print version record
Subject World politics -- 1900-1945.
World politics -- 1945-1955.
Families -- History -- 20th century
Families -- Political aspects -- History -- 20th century
Revolutions -- History -- 20th century
Revolutions -- Social aspects -- History -- 20th century
Dictatorship -- History -- 20th century
Social change -- History -- 20th century
HISTORY -- World.
Dictatorship
Families
Families -- Political aspects
Politics and government
Revolutions
Revolutions -- Social aspects
Social change
World politics
SUBJECT Europe -- Politics and government -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045748
Turkey -- Politics and government -- 1918-1960. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85138848
Subject Europe
Turkey
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780300211054
0300211058