"Europe in the Twentieth Century" offers a comprehensive, yet streamlined narrative of twentieth-century Europe. The scholarship and currency is top-notch as is this book's excellent consideration of important socio-cultural issues in the twentieth century, including youth movements and feminism.[...]
In this sweeping study, Julie Hessler traces the invention and evolution of socialist trade, the progressive constriction of private trade, and the development of consumer habits from the 1917 revolution to Stalin's death in 1953. The book places trade and consumption in the context of debilitating [...]