Claustrophobia: Totalitarianism and the Great Depression, 1920–1936

2021 ◽  
pp. 32-50
Author(s):  
R. Keith Schoppa
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Great Depression ◽  
Fast Track ◽  
Good Life ◽  
The Good Life ◽  
Lu Xun ◽  
Individual Control ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
The Great War

This chapter focuses on two of the three-tiered political identities, specifically the power of individual control (localism) and the force of nationalism. After the Great War, the 1920s roared with the possibilities of wealth, pleasure, the good life. Women seemed to be at the center of things: the “flapper,” homemaker, and female suffrage worlds. Yet national ambitions of Germany, Italy, Japan, and the Soviet Union were put on the fast track of totalitarianism working by way of fascism, monarchical dictatorship, and communism. The policies of those four placed thousands of people in “iron houses” to be suffocated, or, more likely, executed. To deal with these tragedies, the long shot seemed perhaps to be the wide-ranging individualism of Lu Xun, the “duende” of Garcia Lorca, and the initiative of countless others to try to exorcise nationalism run amok.

Politics of Discontent in the Midst of the Great Depression: The Free Republican Party of Turkey (1930)

2000 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 31-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cem Emrence
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Great Depression ◽  
Republican Party ◽  
International Affairs ◽  
Top Down ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
Population Exchange ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Muslim Immigrants

In the 1920s, Turkey was hard-pressed with difficulties on both the international and the domestic levels. The fledgling republic was isolated in international affairs, other than its friendship with the Soviet Union (Gürün 1991, pp. 103-32), and its borders were still far from being consolidated (Psomiades 1962, pp. 112-35; Newman 1927, pp. 81-83, 173-77). The Kurdish rebellions in the east, the top-down modernization efforts of the nationalists, and the ongoing settlement problems of many Turkish-Muslim immigrants who came from Greece through a population exchange, created uncertainty and instability within the country (Zürcher 1993, pp. 173-82).

Purging the Rottenness from the System

2019 ◽  
pp. 27-50
Author(s):  
John Marsh
Keyword(s):  
Great Depression ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Good Life ◽  
The Good Life ◽  
Joseph Schumpeter ◽  
Classical Economics ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
System P ◽  
The World ◽  
End Times

When the Great Depression descended on America, many people had no idea why and no idea about how long it would last. Others, however, experienced no such doubts. For them, the Depression reinforced their understanding of how the world worked and confirmed their most sacred beliefs. This chapter examines their righteous response to the Great Depression. It locates that righteousness in three admittedly far-flung spheres: the laissez-faire fundamentalism of classical economics like Joseph Schumpeter and then secretary of the treasury Andrew Mellon; the apocalyptic interpretations of the Great Depression on the part of many Christians, who believed the Depression signaled the beginning of the end times and the Second Coming of Christ; and one famous Depression short story, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “Babylon Revisited.” As far apart as these sources are, each nevertheless conveyed a sense that the Depression was a punishment for past misdeeds, whether economic, spiritual, or moral, and, therefore, was a punishment that had to be endured, even embraced, for the good life to resume.

Bertrand Russell (1872–1970), man of dissent

2009 ◽  
Vol 63 (4) ◽  
pp. 365-379 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivor Grattan-Guinness
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Bertrand Russell ◽  
Nuclear Disarmament ◽  
Great War ◽  
World War ◽  
Private Citizen ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
The Great War

Russell argued against the Great War, but he also wanted to drop atomic bombs on the Soviet Union after World War II, and later he advocated nuclear disarmament. How could a great logician accommodate such inconsistencies? How, as a private citizen, did he make such a world-wide impact in his late years?

scholarly journals عروض مختصرة

2001 ◽  
Vol 6 (24) ◽  
pp. 148-143
Author(s):  
فتحي حسن ملكاوي
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
University Of Minnesota ◽  
New Politics ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
Princeton University ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Christian Understanding

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