Dreams of peace and freedom : utopian moments in the twentieth century / Jay Winter.
Winter, J. M.
2006
HX806 .W56 2006 (Mapit)
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Title Dreams of peace and freedom : utopian moments in the twentieth century / Jay Winter.
Author Winter, J. M.
ISBN 9780300106657 (alk. paper)
0300106653 (alk. paper)
9780300126020 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0300126026 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780300106657
Imprint New Haven : Yale University Press, c2006.
Language English
Description x, 261 p. ; 22 cm.
Call Number HX806 .W56 2006
Dewey Decimal Classification 335/.020904
Summary "In the wake of the monstrous projects of Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and others in the twentieth century, the idea of utopia has been discredited. Yet, historian Jay Winter suggests, alongside the "major utopians" who murdered millions in their attempts to transform the world were disaparate groups of individuals trying to imagine a radically better world. This book focuses on some of the twentieth century's "minor utopias," whose stories, overshadowed by the Holocaust and the Gulag, suggest that the future need not be as catastrophic as the past."--Jacket.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Acknowledgments
Introduction : Minor utopias and the visionary temperament
1. 1900 : The face of humanity and visions of peace
2. 1919 : Perpetual war/perpetual peace
3. 1937 : Illuminations
4. 1948 : Human rights
5. 1968 : Liberation
6. 1992 : Global citizenship
Epilogue : An alternative history of the twentieth century
Notes
Bibliography
Index.

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