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Author Ginsborg, Paul, author.

Title Family politics : domestic life, devastation and survival, 1900-1950 / Paul Ginsborg.

Publication Info. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2014]

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 520 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (chiefly color)
Physical Medium polychrome
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Contents List of Illustrations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Revolutionising family life: Russia, 1917-1927 -- 2. The nest and the nation: family politics in the transition from Ottoman Empire to Turkish Republic, 1908-1938 -- 3. Fascism and the family -- 4. Family and family like in the Spanish Republic and the Civil War, 1931-1950 -- 5. 'The greater world and the smaller one': the politics of the family in Germany, 1918-1945 -- 6. Stalinism and Soviet families, 1927-1945 -- Some final considerations -- Notes -- Index.
Summary "In this masterly twentieth-century history, Paul Ginsborg places the family at center stage, a novel perspective from which to examine key moments of revolution and dictatorship. His groundbreaking book spans 1900 to 1950 and encompasses five nation states in the throes of dramatic transition: Russia in revolutionary passage from Empire to Soviet Union; Turkey in transition from Ottoman Empire to modern Republic; Italy, from liberalism to fascism; Spain during the Second Republic and Civil War; and Germany from the failure of the Weimar Republic to the National Socialist state. Ginsborg explores the effects of political upheaval and radical social policies on family life and, in turn, the impact of families on revolutionary change itself. Families, he shows, do not simply experience the effects of political power, but are themselves actors in the historical process. The author brings human and personal elements to the fore with biographical details and individual family histories, along with a fascinating selection of family photographs and portraits. From WWI--an indelible backdrop and imprinting force on the first half of the twentieth century--to post-war dictatorial power and family engineering initiatives, to the conclusion of WWII, this book shines new light on the profound relations among revolution, dictatorship, and family"--Publisher's website.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Subject World politics -- 1900-1945.
World politics.
Chronological Term 1900-1945
Subject World politics -- 1945-1955.
Chronological Term 1945-1955
Subject Families -- History -- 20th century.
Families.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Families -- Political aspects -- History -- 20th century.
Families -- Political aspects.
Revolutions -- History -- 20th century.
Revolutions.
Revolutions -- Social aspects -- History -- 20th century.
Revolutions -- Social aspects.
Dictatorship -- History -- 20th century.
Dictatorship.
Social change -- History -- 20th century.
Social change.
Europe -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
Europe.
Politics and government.
Turkey -- Politics and government -- 1918-1960.
Turkey.
Chronological Term 1918-1960
1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Ginsborg, Paul. Family politics 9780300112115 (DLC) 2014022289 (OCoLC)881612524
ISBN 9780300211054 (electronic book)
0300211058 (electronic book)
9780300112115
0300112114