The huge, devastating shock of the First World War was over, but its aftereffects would not cease to rumble on. While the Western world was no longer at war, it had definitely not found a state of peace. The brutalization and destabilization associated with the greatest armed conflict the world had ever seen was continuing to affect the lives of hundreds of millions of people—so much so that one could argue that the conflict was continuing, albeit on internal fronts. The social order had been rocked to its foundations, and the economic situation varied from apparently robust in the case of the
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