POL108 Lecture 1: Session 1 - 2017 Week 3 Lecture 1
22 Aug 2018
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Pol108: industrialisation of war, direct physical contact still involved attack usually remote, new scale of mechanised violence, mass status industrial war on western front; more mobile, less technically advanced than. Europe) is exhausted beginning of the end of dominance and power: shattering impact psychologically, economically etc, war to end all wars . Critics of versailles: blamed germany forced sanctioned, j. m. Pol108: marxism, communist manifesto (1848, capital (1867, class struggle, means of production, collapse of capitalism inevitable overthrown by the proletariat, takes hold in russia. Collapse of old-style empires: ottoman, austria-hungarian, russian, introduced the soviet union as the world"s rst major marxist-leninist state civil war 1919-21, 1923 hyperin ation in germany, 1924-1929 relatively calm (on the surface_) Rise of fascism: europe becomes overtaken by right-wing regimes. Spanish civil war: right authoritarian vs communists have trial-run" war, ideological, indicator that the shock of wwi was not enough to stop further wars, germans use it as training.
