Social Sciences and History / Unit 4 SSH 0333 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Revolution in Russia and the Interwar Mood
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The idea
Nicholas the Second lost his throne to the revolutions of nineteen seventeen; the old order of monarchs and nobles ended with the war. Modernism rejected melodrama and authority; Freud reframed the mind.
In practice
Wartime gains for women partly reversed; suffrage won in the twenties.
Where people slip
The Great Depression from nineteen twenty-nine explains extremism's appeal, the anchor argues: progress had reversed.
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