ABSTRACT
The year 1929 marked the realization that all was not well in Europeanpolitics. “Crisis” rapidly became the most over-used word in the political vocabulary, and the idea of “crisis” was intertwined with the memory of conflict and war. The Soviet newspaper Izvestia marked June 28, the fifteenth anniversary of the assassination of the Austrian archduke in Sarajevo, by stating that the new era was an “interwar period” (a phrase which is now of course a common characterization).1
