The Catastrophe of the Present and That of the Future: Expectations for European States from the Great War to the Great Depression

IF 0.8 2区 历史学 Q1 HISTORY
Klaus Richter
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To understand the mindset that obstructed the paths out of the interwar crisis, we need to reconstruct widely held expectations for the future of states. To examine how such expectations changed, diverged and competed, this paper investigates the work of inquiry committees, ranging from British and German committees engaged in post-war economic planning to the League of Nation's Commission of Enquiry for European Union of the early 1930s. The paper concludes that the interwar crisis can only be understood if we put the Great War and the Great Depression into a common frame. The war changed expectations, but not as drastically as we would instinctively assume. The expectation of an order of expanding, integrating blocs was challenged by the emergence of new ‘small states’ but survived. It was shattered when efforts to overcome the economic slump failed, leading to a broader acceptance of territorial revisionism across Europe than hitherto assumed.
当前和未来的灾难:从大战到大萧条对欧洲国家的期望
为了理解阻碍走出两次世界大战危机的心态,我们需要重建人们对国家未来的普遍期望。为了研究这种期望是如何变化、分化和竞争的,本文调查了调查委员会的工作,从参与战后经济规划的英国和德国委员会到20世纪30年代初的国家联盟欧盟调查委员会。文章的结论是,只有把大战争和大萧条放在一个共同的框架里,才能理解两次世界大战之间的危机。战争改变了人们的期望,但并不像我们本能地认为的那样剧烈。新的“小国”的出现挑战了对扩张、一体化集团秩序的期望,但它幸存了下来。当克服经济衰退的努力失败时,它被粉碎了,导致整个欧洲比迄今为止想象的更广泛地接受领土修正主义。
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期刊介绍: Contemporary European History covers the history of Eastern and Western Europe, including the United Kingdom, from 1918 to the present. By combining a wide geographical compass with a relatively short time span, the journal achieves both range and depth in its coverage. It is open to all forms of historical inquiry - including cultural, economic, international, political and social approaches - and welcomes comparative analysis. One issue per year explores a broad theme under the guidance of a guest editor. The journal regularly features contributions from scholars outside the Anglophone community and acts as a channel of communication between European historians throughout the continent and beyond it.
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