After Polish troops seized Vilnius (then called Wilno) in 1920, the pair spent the inter-war years in a stony fury.

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From this perspective, the mass unemployment of the inter-war years appeared to him as a problem not of scarcity but of incipient abundance.

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Gide built on a sea-change in attitudes during the inter-war years that called for fully authentic versions of the plays, liberating Shakespeare from the romanticists and classicists alike.

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It emerged in the inter-war years as a split from republican liberalism, and while it became a traditional social democratic party after the fall of the Colonels regime in 1974, its forms of organisation, and mass base among civil servants and small business people, lead some to compare it to Argentine "Peronism" - that is left nationalism with a working class base.

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