CONTENTS

Preface to the Paperback Edition    vii

Preface    xi

Introduction: The European Paradox   1

PART I:   PROMISE OF PROGRESS, 1900−1929

1. Global Domination   19

2. Breakdown of Peace   46

3. Waging Total War   73

4. Bolshevik Revolution   102

5. Democratic Hopes   128

6. Fascist Alternative   155

7. Modernist Provocations   181

PART II:  TURN TO SELF-DESTRUCTION, 1929−45

8. Devastating Depression   209

9. Stalinist Modernization   235

10. Hitler’s Volksgemeinschaft   261

11. Unleashing World War II   287

12. Axis Conquest   314

13. Nazi Holocaust   341

14. Bitter Victory   369

PART III: SURPRISING RECOVERY, 1945−73

15. Democratic Renewal   399

16. Dictating Communism   426

17. Cold War Crises   452

18. Disappointing Decolonization   480

19. Economic Integration   506

20. Pop and Prosperity   533

21. Planning Social Reform   559

PART IV: CONFRONTING GLOBALIZATION, 1973−2000

22. Revolt against Modernity   587

23. Postindustrial Transition   613

24. Return to Détente   639

25. Peaceful Revolution   666

26. Transforming the East   694

27. Global Challenges   721

28. Prospects for the Twenty-first Century   747

Postscript: A Chastened Modernity   773

Acknowledgments   789

Notes   791

Index   851