This is a comprehensive history of political violence during Europe's incredibly violent twentieth century. Leading scholars examine the causes and dynamics of war, revolution, counterrevolution, genocide, ethnic cleansing, terrorism and state repression. They locate these manifestations of political violence within their full transnational and comparative contexts and within broader trends in European history from the beginning of the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire in the late nineteenth-century, through the two world wars, to the Yugoslav Wars and the rise of fundamentalist terrorism. The book spans a 'greater Europe' stretching from Ireland and Iberia to the Baltic, the Caucasus, Turkey and the southern shores of the Mediterranean. It sheds new light on the extent to which political violence in twentieth-century Europe was inseparable from the generation of new forms of state power and their projection into other societies, be they distant territories of imperial conquest or ones much closer to home.

这是一部关于欧洲令人难以置信的暴力的20世纪的政治暴力的全面历史。著名学者研究了战争、革命、反革命、种族灭绝、种族清洗、恐怖主义和国家镇压的原因和动态。他们将这些政治暴力的表现置于其完整的跨国和比较背景下，以及欧洲历史上更广泛的趋势中，从十九世纪末奥斯曼帝国解体开始，到两次世界大战，再到南斯拉夫战争和原教旨主义恐怖主义的崛起。该书跨越了一个 "大欧洲"，从爱尔兰和伊比利亚延伸到波罗的海、高加索、土耳其和地中海南岸。该书对二十世纪欧洲的政治暴力与新形式的国家权力的产生及其向其他社会的投射密不可分的程度作了新的说明，无论是遥远的帝国征服的领土还是离家更近的社会。