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1917 - Lenin, Wilson, and the Birth of the New World Disorder (Paperback)
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1917 - Lenin, Wilson, and the Birth of the New World Disorder (Paperback)
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How did two men move the world away from wars for land and treasure
to wars over ideas and ideologies-a change that would go on to kill
millions? In April 1917, Woodrow Wilson-champion of American
democracy but also of segregation, advocate for free trade and a
new world order based on freedom and justice-thrust the United
States into the First World War in order to make the "world safe
for democracy"-only to see his dreams for a liberal international
system dissolve into chaos, bloodshed, and betrayal. That October,
Vladimir Lenin-communist revolutionary and advocate for class war
and "dictatorship of the proletariat"-would overthrow Russia's
earlier democratic revolution that had toppled the powerful czar,
all in the name of liberating humanity-and instead would set up the
most repressive totalitarian regime in history, the Soviet Union.
In this incisive, fast-paced history, the New York Times
bestselling author Arthur Herman brilliantly reveals how Lenin and
Wilson rewrote the rules of modern geopolitics. Prior to and
through the end of World War I, countries marched into war only to
advance 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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