The age of extremes : a history of the world, 1914-1991 / Eric Hobsbawm.

New York : Vintage Books, 1996.

xii, 627 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm

1st Vintage Books ed.

Originally published: London : M. Joseph, 1994.

Includes index.

The age of total war -- The world revolution -- Into the economic abyss -- The fall of liberalism -- Against the common enemy -- The arts 1914-1945 -- End of empires -- Cold War -- The golden years -- The social revolution 1945-1990 -- Cultural revolution -- The third world -- Rèal socialism' -- The crisis decades -- Third world and revolution -- End of socialism -- The avant-garde dies - the arts after 1950 -- Sorcerers and apprentices - the natural sciences -- Towards the millennium.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [587]-614).