1917 : Lenin, Wilson, and the birth of the new world disorder

Herman, Arthur, 1956-2018

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This is the story of two men, and the two decisions, that transformed world history in a single tumultuous year. In April 1917, Woodrow Wilson, champion of American democracy but also segregation; advocate for free trade and a new world order based on freedom and justice; thrust the United States into World War One 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 all-power Czar, all in the name of liberating humanity - and instead would set up the most repressive totalitarian regime in history, the Soviet Union.