Светът през XX век
The World in the 20th Century

Author(s): Plamen Tzvetkov
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, History, Social Sciences, Political Sciences, Comparative history, Political history, Recent History (1900 till today), Comparative politics, Period(s) of Nation Building, History of Communism, Between Berlin Congress and WW I, Fascism, Nazism and WW II, Cold-War History, Post-Communist Transformation, History of European Union, EU-Accession / EU-DEvelopment
Published by: Нов български университет
Keywords: Modern History; Colonialism; Revolutionary acts; Nationalism; Stalin; Hitler; Collectivism; Capitalism; Democracy; Parliamentarianism; European Union integration; NATO; Dictates in XX Century
Summary/Abstract: Ignorance towards world history can lead to severe distortions in the national psyche. Even today, Bulgarians either rejoice as the greatest nation, surrounded by enemies, for some reason, or as a hopelessly lagging nation. The book offers the most fateful events and processes from the history of mankind in the twentieth century. During this century, people entered space, found the computer but at the same time faced the threat of nuclear self-destruction and were struck by a new type of plague known as AIDS. The planet became narrow. Clothing, life-style and food are uniform. The globalization, symbolized by both McDonald's fast food and Chinese restaurants, has its furious opponents, but also enthusiastic followers. Current Handbook aims to acquaint students with those historical events and processes in the history of Europe and the world in the twentieth century that directly impact human civilization, and the beginning of the 21st century. Therefore, the approach is not typical for historical science - events and processes are not chronologically but problem-based considered.

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