XX wiek — waga dziedzictwa

• Authors: Adam Kosidło

Title variants

EN

20th CENTURY — IMPORTANCE OF THELEGACY

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The purport of this paper is to highlight the development tendencies and characteristics of the 20th century, which was decisive in forming the found ations of the present world. The narrative underlines the fact that it was an age of wars, ideological rivalry between democratic capitalism versus fascism and then communism, nationalisms and insurgencies for freedom and social change; time when international domination of the United States consol idated and when enormous social, economic, scientific and technological progress was made. But it was also a century of atrocities, often amounting to genocide — so alien to the twentieth-century image of the allegedly humanistic progress.

Keywords

EN

20th CENTURY; LEGACY; DEVELOPMENT; COMMUNISM; FASCISM; USA; SOVIET UNION; COLD WAR

• Publisher: Akademia Marynarki Wojennej (Polish Naval Academy), Gdynia, Poland
• Journal: Colloquium Wydziału Nauk Humanistycznych i Społecznych AMW
• Year: 2013
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 39-54

Contributors

author

Adam Kosidło

• Akademia Marynarki Wojennej w Gdyni, ul. Śmidowicza 69, 81-103 Gdynia, Poland