Modern Times - A History of the World from the 1920s to the Year 2000

This account begins with the end of World War I and moves on to the destruction of the traditional European order, the triumph of Einstein's new cosmology, the full impact of Freudianism, the establishment of the first Marxist state and the genesis of Fascism, leading to the mass destruction of another World War. In its wake come decolonization, the Communist revolution in China and the radicalization of Latin America, overshadowed by the implacable enmity of the two superpowers. This revised edition includes the crash of the Iron Curtain, the break-up of the Soviet Union, the Gulf War, and the looming threats of religious fundamentalism and environmental disaster...