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An Age of Anxiety
CHAPTER 35
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• “The lost generation” (Gertrude Stein)
• Disillusionment after WW I
• Pessimism over idea of human progress
• Spengler, Decline of the West
ERA OF INNOVATION
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GERTRUDE STEIN
Portrait of Gertrude Stein by
Pablo Picasso, 1906
• An American writer and
catalyst in the
development of modern
art and literature, who
spent most of her life in
France.
• “All of you young people
who served in the war,
you are all a lost
generation.”
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THE LOST GENERATION
• The "Lost Generation" were said to be disillusioned
by the large number of casualties of the First World
War, cynical of the Victorian notions of morality and
propriety of their elders and ambivalent about
Victorian gender ideals.
• The writers of this period included Ernest
Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and T.S. Eliot.
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ERNEST HEMINGWAY
• An American novelist,
short-story writer, and
journalist.
• Wrote The Sun Also Rises which reflected a
generation that had lost
its moral grounding
during the war.
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F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
• Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was an Irish American novelist and short story writer.
• Wrote The Great Gatsby reflected a generation that had lost its moral grounding during the war.
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T.S. ELIOT
• Thomas Stearns Eliot was an American poet, dramatist and literary critic.
• He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948.
• In his poem The Wasteland, Eliot expressed the negative outlook of the postwar years by describing a world without faith, where moral and spiritual values could not be restored.
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FRANZ KAFKA
• Franz Kafka, a middle-class
Jew based in Prague, was
one of the major German-
language fiction writers of
the 20th century.
• Kafka used surrealism in
his work, which brings
conscious and unconscious
ideas together to portray
life in a dreamlike way.
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• “Weakness” of democracy
• Religion discredited
• Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
• Existentialism
• Formative years of Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980), Albert Camus (1913-1960)
LOSS OF A MORAL
COMPASS
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• Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
• Theory of Special Relativity
• Neither time nor space absolute values, vary with observer
• Werner Heisenberg (1901-1976)
• The Uncertainty Principle • Concepts extended to humanities, social
sciences
RELATIVISM IN THE
PHYSICAL WORLD
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• Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
• The life of the subconscious mind
• Repression of sexual desires, fears
• Interpretation of Dreams
• Free Association
• Application to mythology, religion, literature, art, etc.
THE SOUL EXPLAINED?
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• Photography makes realism irrelevant
• Art as creation, not reproduction
• Retreat to abstraction
• Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
• Influence of non-western styles
RETREAT FROM REALISM
IN ART
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Otto Dix ,The Seven Deadly Sins,
1933. It was created immediately
after the Nazis had Dix removed from
his teaching position at the Dresden
Art Academy.
The figures are Avarice (an old, bent
over hag clutching at money), Envy
(who rides the back of Avarice), Sloth
(the figure in the skeleton costume
who holds the scythe, and whose legs
and arms form a rough swastika),
Lust (who dances in a lascivious way
behind Death, Anger (the horned
Demon behind Death), Pride (the
enormous head behind the scythe,
whose ears are plugged and who has
an anus for a mouth), and Gluttony
(represented by the figure in the
uppermost right corner who wears a
cooking pot on his head).
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•The Bauhaus
• Director: Walter Gropius (1883-1969)
•Form follows function
•Square, lifeless, but efficient
•Skyscrapers
•“Glass boxes”
•“International Style”
• Loved by business, government
MECHANIZATION OF
ARCHITECTURE
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• Austria/Germany borrow money from USA
to pay war debts to France and England
• France, England pay debts owed to USA for
WWI
• System dependent on flow of cash from USA
• Investors begin to pull out in 1928
EUROPEAN ORIGINS OF THE
GREAT DEPRESSION
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MAIN REASON FOR THE
DEPRESSION WERE: AT DEPRESSION - WHY?
• Less demand for raw materials – With the onset of the war, demand for resources soared. After the war, much of the industry built on that demand was now gone.
• Overproduction of manufactured goods – Factories kept producing goods, despite that demand had dropped off with the stock market crash of 1929, leaving a surplus of manufactured goods with no one to buy.
• The stock market crash – When brokers began to call in loans on purchases largely bought on loan prior to the crash, investors could not pay them, leading to financial panic and the eventual crash.
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THE GREAT DEPRESSION - RESULTS
• During the depression, banks and businesses closed, putting millions out of work and drastically decreasing production of goods. As the depression continued, many lost faith in democracy and capitalism.
• Extreme ideas began to gain value. Communists celebrated what they saw as the failure of capitalism. Strong leaders supported intense nationalism, militarism, and a return to authoritarian rule.
• Strong leaders in Italy and Germany high unemployment and severe economic problems helped paved the way for totalitarian dictatorships.
German Election Results in 1933
Because of the success of the
Nazi Party in the poll, its leader
and Chancellor of Germany,
Adolf Hitler, was able to pass the
Enabling Act, which effectively
gave him the power of a dictator.
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• Single-export countries devastated by
declines due to new technology
• Reclaimed rubber destroys rubber-based economies
of Dutch East Indies, Malaysia, Ceylon
NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND
THE GREAT DEPRESSION
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• Overproduction in 1920s
• Strongest harvests in 1925, 1929
• Wheat lowest price in 400 years
• Farm income drops
• Less demand for manufactured goods
• Inventory surpluses
• The Dust Bowl, mid-late 30s
AGRICULTURAL SURPLUSES
AND THE GREAT DEPRESSION
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• Stock purchases on margin (3%)
• Hints of slowdown in Europe
• Investors begin to sell
• Snowball effect
• Life savings lost
• Black Thursday
• 11 Suicides
BLACK THURSDAY
(OCTOBER 24, 1929)
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• Inventory surplus leads to layoffs
• Layoffs lead to decreased demand, businesses fail
• 1932 industrial production ½ of 1929 levels
• 44% of US banks out of business
• Deposits lost
US ECONOMIC COLLAPSE
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• Hardest hit: countries dependent on export of manufactured goods for essentials
• Japan
• Single-export countries
• South America
WORLD ECONOMIC COLLAPSE
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•Brazil
• Surplus of coffee beans set on fire, used to build highways
•USA: “planned scarcity”
• Vegetables, fruits and animals destroyed
• Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath
INITIAL GOVERNMENT ATTEMPTS TO
INCREASE DEMAND
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•Laissez-faire, “planned scarcity” approaches fail •John Maynard Keynes, economist
•Stimulate economy by lowering interest rates
• Encouraging investment, employment •The New Deal of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
•WWII Spending
NEW US STRATEGIES
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FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT
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Bloody Sunday January 22, 1905
The Czar’s Winter Palace in St. Petersburg
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GEORGI GAPON
• The strikers were led by a Russian Orthodox priest and a popular working class leader named Georgi Gapon and hundreds were killed.
• This happened because Nicholas II feared an uprising and called in the soldiers.
• Destroying any of the faith and trust the people had in the czar, this led to the Revolution of 1905, a failed attempt to overthrow the czar, and a thousand year old legacy of autocracy.
Father Georgi Gapon
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Russian Cossacks Slaughter The
People in Odessa
Anti-Jewish Attacks: Pogroms
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Results
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1. The Tsar’s October Manifesto
October 30, 1905
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2. The Opening of the Duma:
Possible Reforms?
The czar continued
to exercise veto
power over the
Duma, and he
dissolved and
reformed it several
times.
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THE MARCH REVOLUTION
• By the spring of 1917, the Russian people had lost faith in their government, led by Czar Nicholas II.
• The elected legislative body, the Duma, had little power.
• Although serfdom had been abolished in 1861, debts, rents, and taxes kept most Russian peasants poor.
• Strikes and demonstrations broke out in Petrograd, the then capital (this city would become St. Petersburg).
The last known photograph of
Nicholas II, taken after his
abdication in March 1917
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RASPUTIN “THE MAD MONK”
A Russian mystic who is
perceived as having influenced
the later days of the Russian
Tsar Nicholas II, his wife the
Tsaritsa Alexandra, and their
only son the Tsarevich Alexei.
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THE MARCH 1917
REVOLUTION
• With the overthrow of the czar a temporary government was established. This provisional government did very little to quell the demands of the middle class workers who had revolted against the czar.
• Most of these workers were socialists who demanded political and economic equality throughout Russia. They formed soviets, or councils of workers and soldiers in Russian cities.
• Two factions of the soviets fought for power. The moderate Mensheviks and the more radical Bolsheviks.
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FOUNDER OF BOLSHEVISM:
VLADIMIR LENIN
Workers formed soviets, or councils
of workers and soldiers in Russian
cities.
Lenin demanded that all power be
turned over to the soviets and the
Bolshevik slogan was “peace, bread
and land.”
This appealed to the war-weary and
hungry Russian people. Lenin was
a Marxist.
Lenin’s version of Marxism formed
the basis of communism.
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• October/November 1917
• Soviets take over
• Disband Constituent Assembly
• “All Power to the Soviets!”
THE BOLSHEVIK
REVOLUTION
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LEON TROTSKY
• Many in Russia were still loyal to the czar. Soon after the October Revolution broke out, the czar’s supporters, known as the Whites, and the Communist forces known as the Red Army began to clash.
• To ensure that the czar could not come into power, Lenin executed the imprisoned czar and his family.
• The Allies contributed arms, money and even troops to the White forces until the Whites defeat in 1921 by the Communists.
Red Army vs. The Whites
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Russian Civil War White Army propaganda poster depicting
Trotsky as a devil.
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LENIN’S “CHANGE”
• Lenin’s government had a constitution and an elected legislature. But, the Communist Party, not the people had the real power. All opposition parties were banned and only Communist Party members could run for office.
• The revolution had led to economic catastrophe which in 1921 led to Lenin adopting the New Economic Policy. Under this plan, the government controlled banks, large industry and foreign trade. Some small private businesses were allowed to help stimulate the economy.
• In 1922 the Communists renamed the land they ruled the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the USSR, or the Soviet Union.
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•Rapid collectivization
•Confiscations
•Massively unpopular, Lenin backtracks in
1921
•New Economic Policy (NEP) partial
privatization of the economy
WAR COMMUNISM,
1918-1922
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•Promotion of Agriculture
•Promotion of Industry
•“Kulaks” and speculation
•“one step backward, two steps
forward”
NEW ECONOMIC POLICY
(NEP)
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•Lenin’s Stroke (1922) and death (1924)
•Triumvirate:
•Stalin
•Bukharin
•Trotsky
LENIN’S DEATH
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JOSEPH STALIN
• When Lenin died in 1924, a power struggle took place within the Communist Party.
• The main rivals for power were Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin.
• Stalin was the leader of the Communist Party.
• Stalin emerged as the leader by arguing that after socialism succeeded in Soviet Union, revolution would spread throughout the world.
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•Yosef Vissarionovich Dzugashvili
•Nom de guerre: “Man of Steel,”
•Georgian
•Mother’s influence leads to Orthodox seminary
education
•Leads Soviet Union by 1928
JOSEPH STALIN (1879-1953)
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•Mechanics of a purge
•“confession”
• the show-trial
• punishment
•Massive scope: 8 million Soviet citizens in labor
camps by 1939
•Euphemisms: “wreckers, saboteurs”
THE PURGES
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•Internal exile
•The possibility of escape
•Forced labor
•Living conditions
•Trial and re-trial
LIFE IN THE GULAG
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•The “Great Leap Forward”
•Socialism in One Country
•Massive collectivization of agriculture
STALIN AND
INDUSTRIALIZATION
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•A Terror-Famine?
•Ukrainians
•Don Region
•De-kulakization
•The Law of Socialist Property
•“When you cut down a forest, splinters will fly”
THE UKRAINIAN FAMINE
OF 1932-33
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STALIN’S ECONOMY
• Stalin established a command economy, in which government officials made all basic decisions.
• Under Stalin, the government owned all factories, businesses and farms.
• In 1928, Stalin launched the first of his five year plans of industrialization. Consumer goods were ignored with all of the focus being on heavy industry.
• In the 1930’s, oil, coal, steel, mining and military goods increased, while most Russians already impoverished lives got worse.
• Consumer goods that were being produced were of cheap quality and hard to come by.
• Most were starving.
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•From “fasces,” Roman symbol of authority
• Axe surrounded by wooden rods
•Originates with Benito Mussolini
•Influenced Europe, Asia, Latin America
THE GROWTH OF
EUROPEAN FASCISM
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1. Primacy of state over individual
2. Distrust of democracy: the Führerprinzip
3. Hostility to Communism
4. Chauvinistic
5. Militaristic
FASCISM: COMMON
ELEMENTS
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Strong
military
Use of
violence and
terror
Blind
Loyalty to
Leader Rule by
dictator
Strict
Discipline
State
control of
economy
Extreme
nationalism
Censorship
and
government
control of
news
Fascism
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•Poor showing of post-WWI Italian government
• Public disappointed with weak territorial gains
• Economic and social turmoil
•Mussolini, former newspaper editor, electoral successes in 1921
•March on Rome October, King Emmanuel III offers him office of prime minister
•1926 seizes power as Il Duce, “the leader”
FASCISM IN ITALY
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BENITO MUSSOLINI
• As an extreme nationalist, when Mussolini returned from World War I, he organized his own political party known as the Fascist party and called its doctrine fascism.
• Fascism is the rule of a people by dictatorial government that is nationalistic and imperialistic.
• While communism appealed to workers and promised a society without social classes, fascism appealed to the upper and middle classes, promising to preserve existing social classes and the ownership of private property.
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THE BLACK SHIRTS
• Inspired by Giuseppe Garibaldi’s Redshirts
• Used by the Fascists to conduct a violent campaign against strikers, Communist supporters and any other opponents.
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WEIMAR REPUBLIC
• After World War I, the Kaiser abdicated (Wilhelm II) the throne and the Weimar Republic was founded.
• The German people were unhappy with the Weimar republic because they supported the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, which made the Weimar Republic seem as traitors to Germany.
Inflation 1923–24: a woman feeds her tiled stove with
money. At the time, burning money was less
expensive than buying firewood.
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• 1921 becomes Chairman of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (Nazis)
• Attempts to overthrow government in 1923
• Beer Hall Putsch
• Writes autobiography Mein Kampf in jail, massively popular
ADOLF HITLER (1889-1945)
AND THE NAZI PARTY
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THE NAZI PARTY
• Promising to protect Germany from communism, the Nazi Party was extremely nationalistic, and anti-Semitic, attracting support from wealthy business leaders and landowners.
• In 1925, the Nazi Party had just 25,000 members. By 1929, the party had grown to 180,000 members.
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THE THIRD REICH
• Reminding his people of their countries former glory, Hitler began to refer to his rule as the Third Reich. The first would have been the Holy Roman Empire, followed by the German Empire of the Hohenzollerns.
• Hitler claimed the Third Reich would last 1000 years.
Large military parades were
prominent in the Nazi era.
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• Capitalizes on public discontent with post-war era
• War guilt clause
• Reparation payments
• Inability of major parties to come to consensus
• Anti-semitism
ADOLF HITLER (1889-1945)
AND THE NAZI PARTY
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•Nazis become single largest party in parliament, 1930-
1932
•Weak president Paul von Hindenburg (1847-1934)
appoints Hitler as Chancellor
•Suppresses opposition, abrogates constitutional and
civil rights
• Makes the Nazis the sole legal party
• Destroys trade unions
• Purges judiciary, civil service of perceived enemies
CONSOLIDATION OF
POWER
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• Theories of racial superiority, racial purity
• Policies of eugenics
• Compulsory sterilization of 30,000 Germans
• Abortions illegal for healthy Germans, mandatory for “hereditary ill”
and “racial aliens”
• “Euthanasia” program kills 200,000 people with physical or mental
handicaps between 1939-1945
• Precursors to massacres of Jews, gypsies
THE RACIAL STATE
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• Influence of 19th-century racism
• 1935 Nuremburg laws define Jew on racial basis
• Prohibits marriages between Jews and non-Jews
• Removal of Jews from civil service, schools
• Liquidation of Jewish-owned businesses or purchase by non-Jews
• Kristallnacht: major country-wide pogrom on Jews, November 9-
10, 1938
• “Night of broken glass”
ANTI-SEMITISM
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