Generations in Tentieth-Century Europe [Hardcover]

The concept of generation is ubiquitous in common parlance and public discourse: it is used to explain family relationships, consumer preferences, political change, and much else besides. But how can generation be used by historians? Do generations 'really' exist, or are they constructed and manipulated by social and cultural elites?Introduction; S.Lovell Cultures of Change: Generations in the Politics and Memory of Modern Germany; B.Weisbrod Orphaned by History: French Youth in the Shadow of World War II; R.Vinen 'Generation' as a Political Argument in West European Protest Movements during the 1960s; H.Nehring The First Soviet Generation: Children and Religious Belief in Soviet Russia, 1917-41; S.Smith Identity, Agency and the 'First Soviet Generation'; A.Krylova Age Groups, Political Conflicts and Sociological Thought in Interwar Spain; S.Souto Kustrin The War Child: A German Trauma?; N.Stargardt 'Good Night, Little Ones': Childhood in the 'Last Soviet Generation'; C.Kelly Generations and Inter-Generational Relationships, Public and Private, in Twentieth-Century Britain; P.Thane Soviet Russia's Older Generations; S.LovellCATRIONA KELLY Professor of Russian and Co-Director of the European Humanities Research Centre, University of Oxford, UKANNA KRYLOVA Assistant Professor of History at Duke University, USASANDRA SOUTO KUSTRIN Research Fellow at the Department of Contemporary History, Institute of History, Spanish National Research CouncilSTEPHEN LOVELL Reader in Modern European History at King's College London, UKS.A. SMITH Professor of History at the University of Essex, UKNICHOLAS STARGARDT Lecturer in Modern History and Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, UKPAT THANE Professor of Contemporary British History, Institute of Historical Research, University of London, UKRICHARD VINEN Reader in Modern European History at King's College London, UKBERND WEISBROD Professor of Modern European History at G?ttingen University, Germany