{"product_id":"the-end-of-the-twentieth-century-and-the-end-of-the-modern-age","title":"The End of the Twentieth Century and the End of the Modern Age","description":"\u003cp\u003eHistorian John Lukacss brilliant new book offers a provocative summing-up of the twentieth century  that age of iron which began with the guns of August in 1914 and ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989. Distinguished by its authors masterly style and command of detail  The End of the Twentieth Century is a startling examination of where we are today  how we got here  and where we are headed. Centering on Europe  America  and the relations between the two  Lukacs argues that the major battle of our time has been waged between forms of nationalism rather than between communism and democracy; that the great watershed events have been the two world wars  not the Russian Revolution; and that the centurys radical revolutionary was neither Lenin nor Chairman Mao but Adolf Hitler. The book puts into sharp perspective such events as the collapse of the Soviet Union  the civil war raging in what was Yugoslavia  and the resurgence of right-wing politics in a reunited Germany. Rather than the end of history  we are now witnessing the end of the modern era  and what awaits us is not the triumphal reign of liberal democracy but a troubled time that may echo much that is most questionable in our age. Informed by the precision and insight that have made Lukacs a leading historian  The End of the Twentieth Century is a reckoning both personal and professional - at once a brilliant rebuttal to Francis Fukuyamas The End of History and an outstanding  if sobering  work of historical mediation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44946810667061,"sku":"ByrdShop_0395584728","price":27.62,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780395584729.jpg?v=1769967336","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-end-of-the-twentieth-century-and-the-end-of-the-modern-age","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}