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

ECONOMIST: Lithuania and Poland seem to have hit an icy impasse

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

ECONOMIST: Ideas and the world | The

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.

ECONOMIST: Shakespeare