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Family Politics : Domestic Life, Devastation and Survival, 1900-1950 / Paul Ginsborg.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ginsborg, Paul, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World politics--1900-1945.
- World politics.
- World politics--1945-1955.
- Families--History--20th century.
- Families.
- Families--Political aspects--History--20th century.
- Europe--Politics and government--20th century.
- Europe.
- Turkey--Politics and government--1918-1960.
- Turkey.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (581 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2014]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- An exploration of the convulsive history of the 20th century's first five decades, seen through the lens of families and family life 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.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 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 life 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
- Appendix: Statistical essay
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)
- ISBN:
- 0-300-21105-8
- OCLC:
- 1149393907
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