Martel - A companion to Europe, 1900 -1945

A Companion to Europe 19001945

BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO HISTORY

This series provides sophisticated and authoritative overviews of the scholarship that has shaped our current understanding of the past. Defined by theme, period and/or region, each volume comprises between twenty-five and forty concise essays written by individual scholars within their area of specialization. The aim of each contribution is to synthesize the current state of scholarship from a variety of historical perspectives and to provide a statement on where the field is heading. The essays are written in a clear, provocative, and lively manner, designed for an international audience of scholars, students, and general readers.

BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO EUROPEAN HISTORY

A Companion to Europe 19001945

Edited by Gordon Martel

A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Europe

Edited by Peter H. Wilson

A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Europe

Edited by Stefan Berger

A Companion to the Worlds of the Renaissance

Edited by Guido Ruggiero

A Companion to the Reformation World

Edited by R. Po-chia Hsia

A Companion to Europe Since 1945

Edited by Klaus Larres

A Companion to the Medieval World

Edited by Carol Lansing and Edward D. English

BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO BRITISH HISTORY

A Companion to Roman Britain

Edited by Malcolm Todd

A Companion to Britain in the Later

Middle Ages

Edited by S. H. Rigby

A Companion to Tudor Britain

Edited by Robert Tittler and Norman Jones A Companion to Stuart Britain Edited by Barry Coward

A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Britain

Edited by H. T. Dickinson

A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Britain

Edited by Chris Williams

A Companion to Early Twentieth-Century Britain

Edited by Chris Wrigley

A Companion to Contemporary Britain

Edited by Paul Addison and Harriet Jones

A Companion to the Early Middle Ages: Britain and Ireland c.500-c.1100

Edited by Pauline Stafford

BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO AMERICAN HISTORY

A Companion to the American Revolution

Edited by Jack P. Greene and J. R. Pole

A Companion to 19th-Century America

Edited by William L. Barney

A Companion to the American South Edited by John B. Boles

A Companion to American Indian History

Edited by Philip J. Deloria and Neal Salisbury A Companion to American Womens History Edited by Nancy A. Hewitt

A Companion to Post-1945 America Edited by Jean-Christophe Agnew and Roy Rosenzweig

A Companion to the Vietnam War

Edited by Marilyn B. Young and Robert Buzzanco

A Companion to Colonial America

Edited by Daniel Vickers

A Companion to 20th-Century America

Edited by Stephen J. Whitfield

A Companion to the American West Edited by William Deverell

A Companion to American Foreign Relations

Edited by Robert D. Schulzinger

A Companion to the Civil War and Reconstruction

Edited by Lacy K. Ford

A Companion to American Technology Edited by Carroll Pursell

A Companion to African-American History Edited by Alton Hornsby, Jr

A Companion to American Immigration

Edited by Reed Ueda

A Companion to American Cultural History

Edited by Karen Halttunen

A Companion to California History

Edited by William Deverell and David Igler

A Companion to American Military History

Edited by James Bradford

BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO WORLD HISTORY

A Companion to Western Historical Thought

Edited by Lloyd Kramer and Sarah Maza

A Companion to Gender History

Edited by Teresa A. Meade and Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks

A Companion to International History 19002001

Edited by Gordon Martel

A Companion to the History of the Middle East

Edited by Youssef M. Choueiri

A Companion to Japanese History Edited by William M. Tsutsui

A Companion to Latin American History

Edited by Thomas Holloway

A Companion to Russian History

Edited by Abbott Gleason

A Companion to World War I

Edited by John Horne

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

A companion to Europe: 19001945 / edited by Gordon Martel.
p. cm. (Blackwell companions to European history)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 978-1-4051-0664-1 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN: 978-1-4443-3840-9 (pbk.: alk. paper)
1. EuropeHistory20th century. I. Martel, Gordon. II. Series.
D424.C66 2005
940.5dc22

2005013772

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

Contributors

Nicholas Atkin was Professor of Modern European History at the University of Reading. He has written extensively on France under Nazi rule and has authored Church and Schools in Vichy France (New York, Garland, 1991), Ptain (London, Longman, 1997), The French at War, 19341944 (London, Longman, 2001), The Forgotten French: Exiles in the British Isles, 19401944 (Manchester, MUP, 2003), The Fifth French Republic (Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2004) and, with Frank Tallett, Priests, Prelates and People: A History European Catholicism since 1750 (London, Tauris, 2003). Professor Atkin died in 2009.

Mark Baker is Lecturer in Eastern European History at California State University, Bakersfield. His book manuscript, Peasants, Power and Revolution in the Village: A Social History of Kharkiv Province, 19141921, is currently under review for publication. He has published several articles on the revolutionary period, the most pertinent of which is Rampaging Soldatki , Cowering Police, Bazaar Riots and Moral Economy: The Social Impact of the Great War in Kharkiv Province, Canadian-American Slavic Studies 35, Nos. 23 (SummerFall 2001).