"The 20th century was perhaps the deadliest in human history, devastated by innumerable conflicts, untold suffering, a…"

"Richard Dressler: Most people believe the twentieth century was defined by the death struggle of capitalism versus co…"

"The last century was defined by physics. From the minds of the world’s leading physicists there flowed a river of ide…"

"The birth of the 20th century was like a flaming sunrise. More was expected of the century than any other. So much ha…"

"The political history of the 20th century is the history of social-engineering projects executed by well-intentioned …"

"[This century has been called] the century of extremes, . . . in which human vices reached unfathomable depths. [She …"

"We live in a time of transition, an uneasy era which is likely to endure for the rest of this century. It will be a p…"

"The speed of its collapse has exceeded all the other great landslides of European history, [and] it happened through …"

"[The Soviet Union was] a vast multinational empire already sinking into irreversible decline."

"The search for identity and belonging is also a motif for the human condition of the twentieth century-a century defi…"