To what extent was the period between 1870 and 1914 an age of anxiety?
What will be an ideal response?
The ideal answer should include:
a. The economic depression that began in 1873 strained labor relations, increased social tensions, radicalized politics, and sparked revolts.
b. The spread of socialism, and in particular syndicalism and anarchism, was a cause of concern for governments and those in the upper half of the social hierarchy.
c. The spread of nationalist-racist politics reflected a general anxiety about those considered outsiders.
d. The spread of antisemitism represented a virulent form of racism that identified a particular group with everything that was wrong in society.
e. The 1905 Revolution reflected an eruption of social tension in Russia.
f. The counterargument would point to the positive features of this period: the growing consumer culture among the middle class, the social reform measures enacted by many governments, the spread of socialist revisionism as the dominant practice of socialism, the expansion of public school education, the technological advances of the Second Industrial Revolution, and the new business practices and forms of industrial organization.
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