Jóvenes, violencia política y democracia en el periodo de entreguerras
- Hernández Diez, Enrique (coord.)
ISSN: 0211-4364
Year of publication: 2022
Issue Title: Una Europa comprometida con los derechos de la juventud y una vida libre de violencia. A Europe committed to youth rights and a life without violence
Issue: 126
Pages: 17-32
Type: Article
More publications in: Revista de Estudios de Juventud
Abstract
Interwar Europe experienced an unprecedented wave of brutalisation and paramilitarisation within politics as important social and political sectors opted for violence to attain their goals. This article analyses this process, highlighting the role played by young people in virtually all European countries. These developments would infuence the unfolding of one of the darkest periods in contemporary European history, despite the warnings of important intellectuals, which also shows us that democracy is a fragile historical construct that can never be considered safe from its enemies.