Abstract
As duas décadas que separam as duas guerras mundiais constituíram um período especialmente intenso da história, repleto de grandes contradições que, cem anos depois, nos continuam a interpelar. Este dossiê temático é dedicado a esse período de grandes ilusões sobre a construção da paz e o reconhecimento do direito de autodeterminação dos povos, de revoluções afogadas em sangue, do desafio anticolonial, da massificação política. Nele reunimos seis textos cujo enfoque balança entre a procura de mais democracia e a demonstração do fracasso da democratização do sistema liberal, percorrendo geografias políticas e contextos nacionais muito variados. Perante a evidência de uma crise dos regimes liberais-democráticos que ressurge cem anos depois, revisitarmos aqueles anos de entre guerras mundiais, muito mais que um simples exercício intelectual, deve servir de aprendizagem urgente sobre as condições de crise da democracia e de perceção de como o autoritarismo avança.
The two decades that separate the two World Wars were a particularly intense period in history, full of such great contradictions that, a hundred years later, continue to challenge us. This thematic dossier is dedicated to this period of great illusions about building peace and recognizing the right to self-determination, revolutions drowned in blood, the anti-colonial surge, political massification. We have gathered here six different papers whose focus balances between the demand for more democracy and the evident failure of the democratization process of the liberal system, across very different political geographies and national contexts. As we are presently facing a very obvious crisis of the liberal-democratic regimes that resurfaces a hundred years later, revisiting those interwar years, much more than a simple intellectual exercise, can be of use to learn about the circumstances in which democracy slides into crisis and on the perception of how authoritarianism advances.
The two decades that separate the two World Wars were a particularly intense period in history, full of such great contradictions that, a hundred years later, continue to challenge us. This thematic dossier is dedicated to this period of great illusions about building peace and recognizing the right to self-determination, revolutions drowned in blood, the anti-colonial surge, political massification. We have gathered here six different papers whose focus balances between the demand for more democracy and the evident failure of the democratization process of the liberal system, across very different political geographies and national contexts. As we are presently facing a very obvious crisis of the liberal-democratic regimes that resurfaces a hundred years later, revisiting those interwar years, much more than a simple intellectual exercise, can be of use to learn about the circumstances in which democracy slides into crisis and on the perception of how authoritarianism advances.
Translated title of the contribution | Between world wars (1918-1939): between peace and war, crisis of the liberal system, Revolution and fascism |
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Original language | Portuguese |
Pages (from-to) | 3-7 |
Number of pages | 5 |
Journal | Revista da Faculdade de Letras. História |
Volume | 10 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2020 |
Keywords
- Autoritarismo
- Entre guerras
- Crise do liberalismo
- Fascismo
- Revolução
- Inter-war period
- Crisis of liberalism
- Fascism
- Revolution
- Authoritarianism