1917 : Lenin, Wilson, and the birth of the new world disorder
Title:
1917 : Lenin, Wilson, and the birth of the new world disorder
Author:
Herman, Arthur, 1956- author.
ISBN:
9780062570888
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
New York :
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers,
[2017?]
©2017
Physical Description:
xii, 480 pages ; 24 cm
Contents:
The German note -- Russia and America confront a world war -- Tommy and Volodya -- Neutrality at bay -- Break point -- President Wilson goes to war, Lenin goes to the Finland Station -- Ruptures, mutinies, and convoys -- Mr. Wilson's war -- Summer of discontent -- American leviathan -- Russia on the brink -- Hinge of fates -- 1918: war and peace and war again -- 1919: grand illusions -- Last act -- Conclusion.
Abstract:
In this fast-paced history, author Arthur Herman reveals how Lenin and Wilson rewrote the rules of modern geopolitics. Through the end of World War I, countries only marched into war to increase or protect their national interests. After World War I, countries began going to war over ideas. Together Lenin and Wilson unleashed the disruptive ideologies that would sweep the world, from nationalism and globalism to Communism and terrorism, and that continue to shape our world today. Our New World Disorder is the legacy left by Wilson and Lenin, and their visions of the perfectibility of man. One hundred years later, we still sit on the powder keg they first set the detonator to, through war and revolution.
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