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C 34: An Age of Anxiety

C 34: An Age of Anxiety. Post-War Pessimism Crash of 1929 Global Depression Economic Experimentation The New Deal. “The Lost Generation”??. Conscious vs Unconscious?.

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C 34: An Age of Anxiety

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  1. C 34: An Age of Anxiety Post-War Pessimism Crash of 1929 Global Depression Economic Experimentation The New Deal

  2. “The Lost Generation”?? Conscious vs Unconscious? As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

  3. October 1929 John Maynard Keynes? The New Deal?

  4. War Communism 1918-1922 Vladimir Lenin = Rapid Collectivization Confiscations UNPOPULAR New Economic Policy (NEP) * partial privatization * promotion of agriculture * promotion of industry * “Kulaks” and speculation Centralized government/authoritarian Stroke 1922 Died 1924 Peasants who rose to prosperity

  5. Joseph Stalin (1879-1953) “Socialism in One Country”1924 vs. Trotsky “international communist revolutions” Massive Agricultural Collectivization First FIVE YEAR PLAN 1928-1932 Ukrainian Famine 1932-1933 De-kulakization = SECRET POLICE The GREAT PURGE: 8 million Soviets in labor camps by 1939 (gulags) Isolation Ukraine 1929-1933: 3 million died Including 1 million children

  6. Nikolai Yezhov, the young man walking with Stalin in the top photo from the 1930s, was shot in 1940. Following his death, Yezhov was edited out of the photo by Soviet Censors. Such retouching was a common occurrence during Stalin's rule. The Great Purge: Results = Arrests, 1937-1938 - about 7 millionExecuted - about 1 millionDied in camps - about 2 millionIn prison, late 1938 - about 1 millionIn camps, late 1938 - about 8 million

  7. Alternatives? MILITARISM Hostile to liberal democracies Hostile to class based visions of the future

  8. Adolf Hitler 1889-1945 1930-1933 Nazi party becomes the largest party in parliament Hitler appointed Chancellor July 1933 Nazi party only legal party 1933 Compulsory sterilization program begins 1935 Nuremberg Laws 1938Kristallnacht Benito Mussolini 1883-1945 1921 elected 35 fascists to Italian parliament (“Blackshirts”) 1922 March on Rome King Victor Emmanuel III asked him to become prime minister 1926 Seized total control

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