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1917: Lenin, Wilson, and the Birth of the New World Disorder
By Herman, Arthur
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- 9780062570888 9780062570925
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- Harper
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Reviewed on November 1, 2017 | social sciences
Historian Herman (senior fellow, Hudson Inst.; Douglas MacArthur) argues that both U.S. President Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) and Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) were, to a degree, idealists who viewed the European political order, mired in war, as corrupt and unredeemable. In 1917, each man sought to remake that order. Wilson envisioned a peaceful revolution i...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
