Helmut Konrad has been Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Graz since 1984. He has held visiting fellowships at Cornell University, University of Waterloo, European University Institute Firenze and Yale University. His research focuses on labour history and cultural history.

• IntroductionHelmut Konrad and Wolfgang MaderthanerChapter 1. Crisis and Workers’ MovementsFerdinand LacinaChapter 2. The Significance of February, 1934 in Austria in both National and International ContextHelmut KonradChapter 3. Avalanches of Spring: The Great War, Modernism, and the Rise of Austro-fascismRoger GriffinChapter 4. Der italienische Faschismus im Spannungsfeld zwischen Reaktion und ModerneKarin PriesterChapter 5. Hitler’s Dictatorship: His Role as “Leader” in the Nazi RegimeHans MommsenChapter 6. The Second Spanish Republic: The Challenges Facing a Democracy in Troubled TimesVicent Sanz RozalénChapter 7. The Crisis in the 1930´s and the Rise to Power of the Swedish Social DemocratsBengt SchüllerqvistChapter 8. The United States in the Great Depression: Was the Fascist Door Open?Nelson LichtensteinChapter 9. Turkey in the first World Crisis: From Authoritarianism to TotalitarianismErik-Jan ZürcherChapter 10. Brazil in the 1930s: State Building, Nationalism and Working-Class AgencyAlexandre Fortes and Paulo Fontes Chapter 11. Labour, Organisation and Gender: The Jute Industry in India in the 1930sSamita SenChapter 12. Japan’s Way Out of the Crisis of the 1930s as a Strategy for Overcoming ModernityHiroko MizunoChapter 13. Reappraising the Nanjing Decade (1927-1937): Modernizing China during the World Economic CrisisZhu, Weigelin-SchwiedrzikList of ContributorsBibliographyIndex

“Several essays are truly innovative, and the collection as a whole offers the English reader an overview of the crises of the 1930s from an original comparative global perspective. In some cases, there is no comparable coverage in English for the period and historical literature.”  ·  Malachi Hacohen, Duke University