Between Revolution and Nationalism: Eastern Europe after the War - Nathan Wood

After the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, there was a period of relative calm on the Eastern Front, as the Bolsheviks tried to withdraw Russia from the war. Negotiations associated with the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk in early 1918 sought to provide Ukrainian grain to civilians of the Central Powers starving due to the Allied Blockade. But instead of the “peace and bread” the Bolsheviks had promised, civil warfare, border instability, nationalist violence, disease and hunger tore through the lands of East Central Europe displacing and killing millions. This presentation will argue as warfare continued until 1921, citizens and leaders alike sought to come to terms with the two major political visions to emerge from the war: Bolshevik-style revolution and the nation-state.
Lecture given as part of The National WWI Museum and Memorial's 2019 Symposium '1919: Peace?'
For more information about the National WWI Museum and Memorial visit theworldwar.org

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  • @phisgog
    @phisgog4 жыл бұрын

    This presentation was brilliant and interesting. I wish more students could hear his lectures. I especially liked the quote " War is a crime."

  • @davemacnicol8404

    @davemacnicol8404

    2 жыл бұрын

    What is a crIme then? Defined in the context of international or even universal actions..

  • @brucevilla
    @brucevilla4 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for Uploading.

  • @jamesbowden4871
    @jamesbowden48717 ай бұрын

    21:30 what's with the German-style quotation marks around English-language quotes?

  • @jezalb2710
    @jezalb27102 жыл бұрын

    My Polish family lived in what was Prussia/Germany before the IWW. They spoke Polish, at home, on the street, were Catholics. Nobody bothered them. Lived happily with their German neighbours, Jews.

  • @arsumbris6392
    @arsumbris63924 жыл бұрын

    39:05 - Yuri Slezkine's book 'The Jewish Century' is a shockingly racist Jewish Supremacist book. Imagine reading that and your reaction is not only to find it positive and profound, but to recommend that other people read it in order to understand anti-semitism. Wood is basically endorsing Slezkine's view that non-jews were just jealous of Jewish racial superiority as the "Mercurian" exploiters of "Apollonian" non-jews. What a disgusting author to recommend, wtf is wrong with this guy?

  • @legaltct49

    @legaltct49

    4 жыл бұрын

    Ars Umbris Brilliant comenta !