Generations in Twentieth-Century Europe

The concept of generation is ubiquitous in common parlance and public discourse: it is used to explain family relationships, consumer preferences, political change, and much else besides. But how can generation be used by historians? Do generations 'really' exist, or are they constructed and manipulated by social and cultural elites?

• Britain
• childhood
• children
• Europe
• Germany
• history
• Protest
• reform
• Russia
• Spain
• Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)

CATRIONA KELLY Professor of Russian and Co-Director of the European Humanities Research Centre, University of Oxford, UK ANNA KRYLOVA Assistant Professor of History at Duke University, USA SANDRA SOUTO KUSTRIN Research Fellow at the Department of Contemporary History, Institute of History, Spanish National Research Council STEPHEN LOVELL Reader in Modern European History at King's College London, UK S.A. SMITH Professor of History at the University of Essex, UK NICHOLAS STARGARDT Lecturer in Modern History and Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, UK PAT THANE Professor of Contemporary British History, Institute of Historical Research, University of London, UK RICHARD VINEN Reader in Modern European History at King's College London, UK BERND WEISBROD Professor of Modern European History at Göttingen University, Germany

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