What is Ahead of Us? [and] Dare We Look Ahead? [2 Vols.]

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Two volumes based on the Fabian Lectures in successive years during a critical moment in modern history, as Europe accelerated towards War - the spectre of which dominates the second volume.The contributors to the first volume 'predict the future of Capitalism [G.D.H. Cole], of Soviet Communism [Sidney Webb], of Dictatorships [Wickham Steed], and of Economic Nationalism [Sir Arthur Salter]' (blurb) - whilst in its penultimate talk, P.M.S. Blackett considers 'The Next War: Can it be Avoided?'The second volume's update to the title of its predecessor reflects the hesitancy caused by the growing threat of War, which informs the discourse to varying degrees throughout, beginning with Bertrand Russell's assertion regarding the 'lowering of the intellectual level' in Nazi Germany and the negative effect on its scientific prowess, and proceeding to Vernon Bartlett's assessment of 'The War Horizon' and G.D.H. Cole and Sir Stafford Cripps on, respectively, the economic and political implications of a new conflict.