Clash of Futures (1918-1939)

The economic situation worsens with inflation and high unemployment. As famine strikes the people, riots erupt in many countries of Europe.

Moscow becomes the centre of international revolutionary fervour attracting freedom fighters and intellectuals from all over the world.

The twenties are a period of heady consumerism and wild financial speculation. But everything will change when the bubble bursts.

By 1932 the global economic crisis has led to record mass unemployment with violent street battles between left and right.

Mid 1930s: Germany reaches full employment and in Spain the civil war breaks out.

1938: Austria is annexed by Germany, the pogrom of Kristallnacht destroys Jewish shops and synagogues as war draws ever closer.