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

How did two men move the world away from wars for land and treasure to wars over ideas and ideologies, a change that would go on to kill millions? In April 1917, Woodrow Wilson, champion of American democracy but also of segregation, advocate for free trade and a new world order based on freedom and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Herman, Arthur, 1956- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2017]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Wilson, Woodrow, > 1856-1924 > Influence. Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich, > 1870-1924 > Influence. World War, 1914-1918 > Influence. Nineteen seventeen, A.D. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Presidents & Heads of State. HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century. POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics. Soviet Union > History > Revolution, 1917-1921 > Influence. United States > Foreign relations > 1913-1921.

Table of Contents:

Prologue: A world on fire
The German note
Russia and America confront a world war
Tommy and Volodya
Neutrality at bay
Break point
President Wilson goes to war, Lenin goes to the Finland Station
Ruptures, mutinies, and convoys
Mr. Wilson's war
Summer of discontent
American leviathan
Russia on the brink
Hinge of fates
1918: war and peace and war again
1919: grand illusions
Last act.