Harold J. Laski saw World War Two as a period of revolutionary change as profound as any in the modern history of the human race.

I: On the Spirit of tne Age; II: The Russian Revolution; III: The Meaning of Fascism; IV: The Democracies at Bay; V: The Internal Conditions of Democracy; VI: The International Aspect; VII: The Threat of Counter-revolution; VIII: Freedom in a Planned Democracy