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The World On Fire: 1919 And The Battle With Bolshevism
by
Anthony Read
"We are running a race with Bolshevism and the world is on fire."—President Woodrow Wilson, 1919
While the Western leaders were hammering out a peace treaty in Paris to end the Great War, a new war had already begun. Bolshevism—the creed of the Russian Revolution—had burst on the scene in 1917 and seared itself into the world's consciousness even faster than al-Qa...more
While the Western leaders were hammering out a peace treaty in Paris to end the Great War, a new war had already begun. Bolshevism—the creed of the Russian Revolution—had burst on the scene in 1917 and seared itself into the world's consciousness even faster than al-Qa...more
Hardcover, 379 pages
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by Jonathan Cape
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Oh, how a once-mighty word can fall. "Bolshevism," at one time sure to inspire fear and loathing, somewhere along the way lapsed into ridiculousness, like "beatnik" or "babaloo." A quick scan of the Chronicle archives reveals only six appearances in these pages in the past decade, and one of those was a Ray Ratto reference to "the creeping Bolshevism that comes from paying an outside linebacker 'quarterback money.' "
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After visiting St. Petersburg, Berlin, and Estonia a couple of months ago, I became extremely interested in the history of Germany and the Baltic region in general.
I saw this book as newly published in Barnes & Noble and picked it up. It was a fantastic history of one fo the most tumultuous years in modern history, 1919. The Versailles Peace Treaty ending World War I had been recently adopted but the world remained on the brink of disaster as Bolshevism took root in Russia and bega...more
I saw this book as newly published in Barnes & Noble and picked it up. It was a fantastic history of one fo the most tumultuous years in modern history, 1919. The Versailles Peace Treaty ending World War I had been recently adopted but the world remained on the brink of disaster as Bolshevism took root in Russia and bega...more
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