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4 pages in length. The writer discusses changes to the European landscape and how postwar restructuring was particular difficult for Europe after the World Wars. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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great concern for the safety of both Europeans and their country. Myriad adverse activities occurred during that period, not the least of which were both World War I and
II, all of which contributed to the death of more than sixty million people by means of murder, war and starvation (Kurth, 1995). Postwar restructuring was particular difficult upon
the European landscape because of the momentum of perpetual destruction taking place, both physical and economic in nature. In the midst of the
World War I, Rosa Luxemburg wrote: "Capitalist society faces a dilemma -- either an advance to Socialism or a reversion to barbarism" (Rosenberg, 1995, p. 139). Thus was the
position facing Europe during the time of the twentieth century known as The Age of Catastrophe. Disaster after disaster followed one upon another through the middle nineteen forties that
had Europe scrambling for cover. Capitalism was at the forefront of crisis during this catastrophic period. According to Hobsbawm (1995), a combination of world war, communist revolution, great
economic hardship, unlikely peace and the recoil of liberalism all spelled the intensity of capitalistic crisis. As a result, the effects and meaning
of post World War II are vastly different than those pertaining to the First World War; having begun with the First World War, which was an inter-imperialist struggle, The Age
of Catastrophe faced its ultimate demise nearly thirty years later with a unattainable battle between "on the one hand the descendants of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment and the revolutions including, obviously,
the Russian revolution, [and] on the other, its opponents" (Hobsbawm, 1995, p. 144). The Soviet Union had much to do with rescuing Europe from the clutches of catastrophe,
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