Description |
xii, 480 pages ; 24 cm |
Summary |
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. |
Subject |
Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924 -- Influence.
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Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich, 1870-1924 -- Influence.
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Influence.
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Nineteen seventeen, A.D.
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Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921 -- Influence.
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United States -- Foreign relations -- 1913-1921.
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Added Title |
Lenin, Wilson, and the birth of the new world disorder |
ISBN |
9780062570888 (hbk.) |
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0062570889 (hbk.) |
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