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The Western Experience, 8/e

Mortimer Chambers, University of California - Los Angeles
Barbara Hanawalt, Ohio State University
Theodore Rabb, Princeton University
Isser Woloch, Columbia University
Raymond Grew, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

The Great Twentieth- Century Crisis

Problems for Analysis

I. Two Successful Revolutions


1		1. Compare the February and the October Revolutions in Russia. 2. Trace how War Communism, the New Economic Policy, and various governmental policies helped the Bolsheviks secure their power and gain some stability in Russia. 3. Analyze the rise to power of the Fascists under Mussolini.

II. The Distinctive Culture of the Twentieth Century


2		1. Why did Freud's ideas create so much controversy and opposition? In what ways did his ideas relate to other cultural currents of his time? 2. In what ways did the culture of the twentieth century differ from that of the nineteenth century?

III. Totalitarianism


3		1. What ideas and policies did fascism stand for? What ideas and policies did fascism stand against? What groups found fascism most appealing? 2. What were the principal characteristics of totalitarianism? 3. How do you explain the rise to power of Nazism under Hitler and the great control acquired by the Nazi state? 4. Explain how Stalin managed to preside over rapid industrialization and collectivization and yet retain absolute power.

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