Pub Date : 2000-01-01DOI: 10.1177/002200940003500108
E Leed
This article sees the neuroses produced by twentieth-century wars as a kind of pathological historical determinism, in which an experience of war erodes participants’ ability to forget it and the traumatic past begins to govern the subsequent thinking and behaviour of survivors. Past events become determining through the way in which they are repressed and recovered, in so far as they are made into images and ideas which become the form of fears, recognitions and judgments. We may see how the past becomes a determining idea in the case histories of shell-shock victims and more largely in the way the 1914–18 war was forgotten and buried in the 1920s, and resurrected and published in the 1930s. The first world war caused the second in so far as it generated a new idea of total war and loss, a new image of massive collective injury which continued to specify the deepest fears of the postwar generations, governing our expectations and avoidances.
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Pub Date : 2000-01-01DOI: 10.1177/002200940003500310
J M Strange
Jonathan Dollimore, Death, Desire and Loss in Western Culture, London, Allen Lane, 1998; pp. xxxii + 384; ISBN 0-713-99125-9 Pat Jalland, Death in the Victorian Family, New York, Oxford University Press, 1996; pp. xii + 464; ISBN 0-19-820188-5 Jessica Mitford, The American Way of Death Revisited, London, Virago, 1998; pp. xix + 212; ISBN 1-86049-588-5 Christine Quigley, Modern Mummies: The Preservation of the Human Body in the Twentieth Century, North Carolina and London, McFarland & Company, 1998; pp. vii + 263; ISBN 0-7864-0492-2
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Pub Date : 2000-01-01DOI: 10.1177/002200940003500409
V Berridge
Roger Cooter, Mark Harrison and Steve Sturdy (eds), War, Medicine and Modernity, Stroud, Sutton Publishing, 1998; pp. vi + 258; ISBN 0-7509-18012 (hbk) Harry Hendrick, Children, Childhood and English Society, 1880–1990, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1997; pp. vi + 114; ISBN 0-521-57253-3 (hbk) John Macnicol, The Politics of Retirement in Britain, 1878–1948, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1998; pp. ix + 425; ISBN 0-521-62273-5 Rodney Lowe, The Welfare State in Britain since 1945, Basingstoke, Macmillan, 1999, 2nd edn; pp. xi + 406; ISBN 0-312-21633-5 Dorothy Porter, Health, Civilization and the State. A History of Public Health from Ancient to Modern Times, London, Routledge, 1999; pp. vi + 376; ISBN 0-415-12244-9 (hbk); 0-415-20036-9 (pbk) Thomas Scharf, Ageing and Ageing Policy in Germany, Oxford, Berg, 1998; pp. xviii + 218; ISBN 1-85973-191-0
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Pub Date : 2000-01-01DOI: 10.1177/002200940003500105
C Merridale
This article deals with the treatment and wider understanding of shell-shock and trauma in modern Russia. At the beginning of the twentieth century, when psychiatrists in many European countries were beginning to think about the issue of shell-shock, Russian psychiatrists took part in the general debate. After the Bolshevik revolution, however, the Russian psychiatric profession became isolated and heavily ideologized, and the treatment of all forms of trauma within the Soviet Union developed along specific lines. At the social level, trauma disappeared as an issue. The idea of a damaged ego was not a central consideration in Soviet psychological thinking. People survived by working, and by reference to the collective, rather than to individual consciousness. Trauma, in its modern form of PTSD, only re-emerged in Soviet psychological discourse as a result of contact between veterans of the Soviet Union's war in Afghanistan and American veterans of Vietnam. Despite the Soviet Union's anguished history, the concept of trauma is still largely ignored by the population as a whole.
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Pub Date : 1999-01-01DOI: 10.1177/002200949903400202
G Lewy
{"title":"Himmler and the 'racially pure gypsies'.","authors":"G Lewy","doi":"10.1177/002200949903400202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/002200949903400202","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51640,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary History","volume":"34 2","pages":"201-14"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"1999-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/002200949903400202","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"30189393","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}