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Trace the rise and growth of the New European Society in the inter-war period.

  • UPSC 1999
  • World Wars

The First World War shattered pre-1914 European social structures, and the two decades that followed saw a genuinely "new society" emerge — reshaped in class composition, gender roles, culture, and mass politics.

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  • Demographic Rupture and Changing Class Structures
  • Changing Gender Roles: Wartime Gains and Postwar Retrenchment
  • Mass Politics, Mass Media, and Consumer Culture
  • Youth Culture, Disillusionment, and Modernism
  • Conclusion

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