The vanquished : why the First World War failed to end /

An epic, groundbreaking account of the ethnic and state violence that followed the end of World War I, conflicts that would shape the course of the twentieth century. For the Western allies, November 11, 1918 has always been a solemn date, the end of fighting that had destroyed a generation, but als...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Gerwarth, Robert (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2016]
Edition:	First American edition.
Subjects:	World War, 1914-1918 > Influence. World War, 1914-1918 > Social aspects > Europe. War and society > Europe > History > 20th century. Ethnic conflict > Europe > History > 20th century. Political violence > Europe > History > 20th century. Europe > Ethnic relations > History > 20th century. Europe > Politics and government > 1918-1945. Europe > Social conditions > 20th century. World War, 1939-1945 > Causes. HISTORY / Military / World War I. HISTORY / Europe / General. HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century.

Table of Contents:

Defeat. A train journey in spring ; Russian revolutions ; Brest-Litovsk ; A taste of victory ; Reversals of fortune
Revolution and counter-revolution. No end to war ; The Russian civil wars ; The apparent triumph of democracy ; Radicalization ; Fear of Bolshevism and the rise of Fascism
Imperial collapse. Pandora's box : Paris and the problem of empire ; Reinventing East-central Europe ; Vae victis ; Fiume ; From Smyrna to Lausanne
The "post-war" and Europe's mid-century crisis.