Account for the strength of communist parties in Italy and France after the Second World War

Compare and contrast the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956 and of Czechoslovakia in 1968.

Account for the strength of communist parties in Italy and France after the Second World War

How was the student movement of the late 1960s a response to a “modernisation crisis”?

In his celebrated book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013), Thomas Picketty argues that the world wars reduced inherited inequality. Critically assess his thesis about the economic consequences of war in twentieth-century Europe.