Women, Children, and the Collective Face of Conflict in Europe, 1900-1950 - Paperbackby Nupur Chaudhuri (Editor), Sandra Trudgen Dawson (Editor) Europe was in turmoil during the first half of the twentieth century. The political stability that emanated from nineteenth century political liberalism began to break down, reaching climaxes in the Great War, the Spanish Civil War, and the Second World War. Revolutions in Russia and Spain threatened parliamentary governments, and the Armenian genocide that began in 1915 foreshadowed the