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1922 was a year of great turbulence and upheaval Its events reverberated throughout the rest of the twentieth century and still affect us today 100 years later
Empires fell The Ottoman Empire collapsed after more than six centuries The British Empire had reached its greatest extent but its heyday was over The Irish Free State was declared and demands for independence in India grew New nations and new politics came into existence The Soviet Union was officially created and Mussolinis Italy became the first Fascist state
In the USA Prohibition was at its height The Hollywood film industry although rocked by a series of scandals continued to grow A new mass medium radio was making its presence felt and in Britain the BBC was founded In literature it was the year of peak modernism Both T S Eliots The Waste Land and James Joyces Ulysses were first published in full
In society already changed by the trauma of war and pandemic the morals of the past seemed increasingly outmoded new ways of behaving were making their appearance The Roaring Twenties had begun to roar and the Jazz Age had arrived
1922 also saw the discovery of Tutankhamuns tomb the arrest of Mahatma Gandhi the death of Marcel Proust the election of a new pope the release of the first major vampire movie and the brief imprisonment in Munich of an obscure rightwing demagogue named Adolf Hitler
In a sequence of vivid sketches Nick Rennison conjures up all the drama and diversity of an extraordinary year
Its eclecticism worked brilliantly tremendous beguiling WILLIAM BOYD
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