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by Arthur Herman, PhD


  11. Pipes, The Russian Revolution, 841.

  12. Service, Lenin: A Biography, 335–36.

  13. Ibid., 366; Pipes, The Russian Revolution, 806.

  14. Service, Lenin: A Biography, 368.

  15. Pipes, The Russian Revolution, 807.

  16. Ibid., 813, 811.

  17. Service, Lenin: A Biography, 376.

  18. Johnson, Modern Times, 83.

  19. Tooze, The Deluge, 238.

  20. Ibid., 240.

  21. Panne, The Black Book of Communism, 272–74.

  22. Bradley, Russian Revolution, 159–61.

  23. Service, Lenin: A Biography, 392.

  24. Heckscher, Woodrow Wilson: A Biography, 500.

  25. Link, The Papers of Woodrow Wilson, 53: 531–33; 505–7.

  26. MacMillan, Paris 1919, 8.

  27. Striner, Woodrow Wilson and World War I, 174.

  28. MacMillan, Paris 1919, 14; Hunter Miller, Drafting of the Covenant: History (New York: Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1969), 42; Seymour, The Intimate Papers of Colonel House, 23.

  29. Striner, Woodrow Wilson and World War I, 175.

  30. Nicolson, Peacemaking, 1919, 196–97.

  31. Ibid., 242.

  32. Taylor, Origins of the Second World War, 167–68.

  33. MacMillan, Paris 1919, 23.

  34. Ibid., 33.

  35. Ibid., 33.

  36. Taylor, Origins of the Second World War, 40.

  37. MacMillan, Paris 1919, 23.

  38. Nicolson, Peacemaking, 1919, 198.

  39. MacMillan, Paris 1919, 93.

  40. Striner, Woodrow Wilson and World War I, 175.

  41. MacMillan, Paris 1919, 103–4.

  42. Nicolson, Peacemaking, 1919, 164.

  43. MacMillan, Paris 1919, 287; Striner, Woodrow Wilson and World War I, 179–80.

  44. Heckscher, Woodrow Wilson: A Biography, 563–64.

  45. MacMillan, Paris 1919, 291–92.

  46. Tooze, The Deluge, 96–97.

  47. Ibid., 323.

  48. MacMillan, Paris 1919, 317.

  49. Link, The Papers of Woodrow Wilson, 58: 165.

  50. MacMillan, Paris 1919, 340.

  51. Link, The Papers of Woodrow Wilson, 58: 607–40.

  52. Striner, Woodrow Wilson and World War I, 209.

  53. MacMillan, Paris 1919, 465.

  54. Taylor, Origins of the Second World War, 174.

  55. Link, The Papers of Woodrow Wilson, 60: 71, 75–79.

  56. Nicolson, Peacemaking, 1919, 368–71.

  57. Bradley, Russian Revolution, 122.

  58. Panne, The Black Book of Communism, 66.

  59. Conquest, V. I. Lenin, 96.

  60. Service, Trotsky: A Biography, 243–44.

  61. Panne, The Black Book of Communism, 89.

  62. Johnson, Modern Times, 71.

  63. Robert Conquest, The Great Terror: A Reassessment (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008), 6.

  CHAPTER 15. LAST ACT

  1. Heckscher, Woodrow Wilson: A Biography, 581.

  2. Striner, Woodrow Wilson and World War I, 189.

  3. Taylor, Origins of the Second World War, 168.

  4. Johnson, Modern Times, 31.

  5. MacMillan, Paris 1919, 94.

  6. Ibid., 95.

  7. Thomas Knock, To End All Wars (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995), 229.

  8. Striner, Woodrow Wilson and World War I, 190.

  9. Striner, Woodrow Wilson and World War I, 192.

  10. Link, The Papers of Woodrow Wilson, 55: 313.

  11. Edith Wilson, My Memoir (Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1939), 245–46.

  12. “Address to the Senate on the Versailles Peace Treaty,” July 10, 1919, in Link, The Papers of Woodrow Wilson, 61.

  13. Link, The Papers of Woodrow Wilson, 61: 445–46.

  14. Heckscher, Woodrow Wilson: A Biography, 586–87.

  15. Knock, To End All Wars, 229.

  16. Garraty, Henry Cabot Lodge: A Biography, 362.

  17. Frederick Lewis Allen, Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s (New York: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2010), 24–25.

  18. Striner, Woodrow Wilson and World War I, 221.

  19. Heckscher, Woodrow Wilson: A Biography, 587.

  20. “Covenant of the League of Nations, 1919–24,” Primary Documents, firstworldwar.com, http://www.firstworldwar.com/source/leagueofnations.htm.

  21. Striner, Woodrow Wilson and World War I, 222.

  22. Henry Kissinger, Diplomacy (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1994), 50.

  23. Knock, To End All Wars, 229.

  24. Garraty, Henry Cabot Lodge: A Biography, 369–70.

  25. Gene Smith, When the Cheering Stopped (New York: Morrow, 1964), 56.

  26. Heckscher, Woodrow Wilson: A Biography, 593.

  27. Garraty, Henry Cabot Lodge: A Biography, 370.

  28. Heckscher, Woodrow Wilson: A Biography, 596.

  29. “An Address in Convention Hall, Kansas City, September 6, 1919,” in Link, The Papers of Woodrow Wilson, 63: 66–67.

  30. Heckscher, Woodrow Wilson: A Biography, 597.

  31. Striner, Woodrow Wilson and World War I, 226.

  32. Ibid., 227.

  33. Heckscher, Woodrow Wilson: A Biography, 603.

  34. Ibid., 606; Link, The Papers of Woodrow Wilson, 64: 177.

  35. Striner, Woodrow Wilson and World War I, 228.

  36. Link, The Papers of Woodrow Wilson, 64: 189; Heckscher, Woodrow Wilson: A Biography, 609.

  37. Smith, When the Cheering Stopped, 78–79; Heckscher, Woodrow Wilson: A Biography, 609.

  38. Heckscher, Woodrow Wilson: A Biography, 610.

  39. Garraty, Henry Cabot Lodge: A Biography, 374.

  40. Ibid., 375.

  41. “HCL to Root, September 29, 1919,” in Garraty, Henry Cabot Lodge: A Biography, 375.

  42. Edith Wilson, My Memoir, 286–88.

  43. Heckscher, Woodrow Wilson: A Biography, 612.

  44. Garraty, Henry Cabot Lodge: A Biography, 378.

  45. Link, The Papers of Woodrow Wilson, 64: 28–30.

  46. Ibid., 64, 44–46.

  47. Henry Cabot Lodge, The Senate and the League of Nations (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1925), 215–16.

  48. Link, The Papers of Woodrow Wilson, 64: 199–202.

  49. The full story is contained in Gene Smith, When the Cheering Stopped, 85–178.

  50. Johnson, Modern Times, 35.

  51. Ibid., 34.

  CONCLUSION

  1. Johnson, Modern Times, 79.

  2. Lenin, Collected Works, 26:352.

  3. Johnson, Modern Times, 84.

  4. Ibid., 84–85.

  5. Panne, The Black Book of Communism, 109, 114–15.

  6. “Left-wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder,” in Lenin, Collected Works, Vol. 31, 17–90.

  7. Service, Lenin: A Biography, 445.

  8. Ibid., 457.

  9. Ibid., 468–69.

  10. “Lenin’s Testament,” in Lenin, Collected Works 36, (1956): 593–611.

  11. Service, Lenin: A Biography, 477.

  12. Heckscher, Woodrow Wilson: A Biography, 667.

  13. Tooze, The Deluge, 339.

  14. Ibid., 345.

  15. Amity Schlaes, The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression (New York: Harper, 2007).

  16. Johnson, Modern Times, 739n51.

  17. Ian Kershaw, The “Hitler Myth”: Image and Reality in the Third Reich (Bethesda, MD: Oxford University Press, 2001), 426.

  18. Johnson, Modern Times, 85.

  19. Panne, The Black Book of Communism, 9–10.

  20. Claire Sterling, The Terrorist Connection (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1981).

  21. Taylor, Origins of the Second World War, 35.

  22. Ibid., 35–36.

  23. Adam Tooze, The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy (New York: Penguin Books, 2007), 7–11.

  24. Powell, Wilson’s War.

/>   25. Morison, Letters of Theodore Roosevelt, 824–25.

  26. Tooze, The Deluge, 336.

  27. Kissinger, Diplomacy, 55.

  INDEX

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  Acheson, Dean, 424–25

  Addison, Christopher, 183

  Africa

  disposition of Germany’s former colonies and, 368–69, 370

  German South Western Africa (today’s Namibia), 368

  mandates vs. colonies in, 369

  Ottoman Empire in, 311

  Paris Peace Conference and, 368–70, 373

  “self-determination” and, 61, 308

  South Africa, 33, 212, 370

  air war, 32

  American planes lacking, 254

  Battle of Cambrai and first air interdiction, 287

  German air power, 212–14, 287

  German bombing of Folkestone, 213

  German bombing of London, 212, 213–14

  German bombing of Petrograd, 324

  modern age of strategic bombing, 213

  Aisne, Battle of, 168, 169

  Albert, Heinrich, 247

  Alekseev, Mikhail, 133, 134–35, 203, 264, 315

  Alexander I, Czar, 71, 72

  Alexander II, Czar, 70–71, 72

  Alexander III, Czar, 73, 136

  Alexandra, Czarina, x, 43, 44–45, 117, 118, 119, 131, 134, 135

  murder of, 336

  Alexei, Czarevich, 135

  Algonquin (ship), 130

  Allenby, Edmund, ix, 165–66, 167, 313

  Allies (Entente countries), 208, 323

  Allied Supreme War Council formed, 286

  American alliance with, 102, 103, 112, 115, 151, 186, 188, 288, 344

  America as natural ally of, 4, 48

  America entering the war, 6, 15, 34, 152–53, 186, 244, 428

  America entering the war, Zimmermann telegram and, 3–7, 105, 110, 112–13

  American (Wilson’s) influence on terms of peace, 339–42 (see also Paris Peace Conference)

  American neutrality and, 4–5, 6, 14–15, 49, 51, 60, 96, 101, 128, 397

  American support, economic and material, 25, 34, 51, 55, 60–61, 199, 247, 253, 288, 327

  American trade with, 24, 49, 51

  American troops and, 174, 288, 327

  Bethmann-Hollweg negotiated peace offer (Dec. 12, 1916) and, 22, 25, 29–30, 33, 37, 38, 52

  blockade of Germany, 23–24, 51, 346, 367, 376

  Calais summit, 164

  collapse of Italy, Romania, and Russia, 276–77

  combined offensive (Champagne Offensive), 164

  countries of, 9, 339

  debt to America defaulted on, 425

  as defenders of civilization, 4, 54, 115, 303, 304

  as democracies, 143

  Foch’s Offensive, and German request for armistice, 337–42

  German submarine warfare and, 4, 28, 99, 105, 174–75

  Italy and, 21, 370 (see also Treaty of London)

  Japan and, 3, 107, 111, 112, 324, 330, 331, 332, 333, 335, 345, 372

  lack of coordination among, 32, 107, 108

  national self-determination and, 57, 61, 207, 304, 340

  Paris inter-Allied conference (Dec. 1, 1917), 289

  Petrograd meeting (Jan.-Feb. 1917), 55, 105–9

  Rapallo, Italy strategic conference, 275, 286

  Romania joins, 21

  Russia and, 9, 16, 105–9, 138, 204, 206, 210, 222, 223, 275, 277, 278, 287, 288, 289, 319, 321, 323, 324, 345

  Russia and, Allied intervention with Bolsheviks, 330–37, 345, 356, 378–79

  secret treaties of, 189–90, 301, 312

  separate peace with Austria and, 289–92

  Spanish flu and, 345

  Sykes-Picot Agreement, 189, 312

  Treaty of London, 189, 301, 368, 370, 371

  Trotsky publishes secret documents of, 301–3, 312

  war aims, 53, 55–56, 188, 190, 204, 303, 305, 340

  Wilson’s assumption of world leadership and, 60–61 (see also Paris Peace Conference)

  Wilson’s Fourteen Points and, 305–10, 340

  Wilson’s moral equivalence of the Allies with the Central Powers, 54

  Wilson’s peace note (December 18, 1916) and, 54

  Wilson’s warning message to Russia (May 22, 1917), 205–6

  Wilson’s globalist vision and, 275, 288

  See also Britain; France; specific battles; specific countries

  All-Russian Congress of Soviets, 267, 272, 280, 282

  choosing a new government, 283

  Decree on Land, 282, 283

  Decree on Peace, 282, 283

  Al Qaeda, 424

  Alsace-Lorraine, 56, 256, 343, 376

  Wilson’s war aims and, 309

  America and the World War (T. Roosevelt), 48

  American Civil War, 66–67, 71, 152, 153, 366

  conscription and, 187–88

  American Defense Society, 246

  American exceptionalism, 59, 396, 430

  American Expeditionary Force (AEF)

  Battle of Argonne Forest, 338–39, 343

  Battle of Belleau Wood, 338

  Battle of St. Mihiel, 338

  black soldiers in, 193

  casualties, 339, 349

  control of, 288

  First Division, 211

  Foch’s command of, 328

  Pershing arrives in Paris, 211

  Pershing as commander for, 192, 193

  size of, 174, 341, 343, 425

  supply and transportation system, 288

  training of recruits, 288

  troops in France, 327

  American Federation of Labor (AFL), 243

  American Protective League (APL), 242

  targets German-Americans, 246, 248

  Amiens, Battle of, 337–38

  April Theses (Lenin), 146, 207, 209

  Argonne Forest, Battle of, 338–39, 343

  Armand, Inessa, x, 156

  Armentières, Battle of, 328

  Arras, 35, 164, 165

  Ashurst, Henry, 354, 390–91

  Attack in Position Warfare, The (Geyer), 326

  Australia, 369

  Paris Peace Conference and, 368

  Wilson and, 348

  Austria-Hungary, 235, 289–92

  Allied demands for, 56

  alliance with Germany, 20, 29

  assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and, 47

  Brusilov Offensive shatters, 20–21

  Central Powers and, 21

  death of Franz Josef and, 290

  disavowal of submarine warfare, 149

  Eastern Front and, 20

  food riots, 290

  as Great Power, 12

  Habsburg Empire and, 12, 21, 56, 289, 291, 292, 309, 329, 330, 334–35

  labor strikes in, 323

  lack of war readiness, 290

  member nations claim independence, 342

  Russia’s Kerensky Offensive and, 224

  a separate peace and, 289–92

  Serbia and, 290

  war’s economic strain on, 6, 290–91

  Wilson and a negotiated settlement, 291–92

  Wilson’s war aims and, 309

  Baker, Newton, 49, 375

  Roosevelt’s offer to raise a division of volunteers refused, 190, 191

  as Secretary of War, 143

  Baker, Ray Stannard, 66, 353, 366

  balance of power

  Article 10 and, 395–96

  proponents of, 365, 366, 397

  Wilson and concept of, 53, 150, 344, 362, 365, 396–97

  World War I and, 6, 7, 12, 100, 102, 211, 235, 428

  Balanchine, George, 412

  Balfour, Arthur James, ix, 277, 313, 341

  Jewish national home in Palestine and, 313–14

  visit to the U.S. and meeting with Wilson (April 1917), 18
8–89

  white supremacy and, 373

  Wilson’s warning message to the Russian people (May 22, 1917) and, 205

  Zimmermann telegram and, 113

  Balfour Declaration, 313–14

  Balkan states, 301, 309, 312, 370

  Baltic states, 22, 224, 262, 321, 322, 343, 356, 412

  Bannwart, Alexander, 152

  Baruch, Bernard, 196, 242

  Belgium, 37, 53, 55, 214–15

  German atrocities in, 237

  German drive to France and, 19

  German invasion of, 27

  Wilson’s war aims and, 309

  See also specific battles

  Beliaev, M. A., 117

  Bellamy, Edward, 85

  Belleau Wood, Battle of, 338

  Below, Otto von, 276

  Bern, Switzerland, 153, 154, 155

  Bernstein, Eduard, 90, 132

  Evolutionary Socialism, 79–80

  Bernstorff, Johann von, ix, 3, 103, 105

  official declaration of unrestricted U-boat warfare and, 101

  Wilson’s peace note (Dec. 18, 1916) and, 59

  Wilson’s threat to join the Allies and, 5–6

  Zimmermann telegram and, 111, 114

  Bethmann-Hollweg, Theobald von, ix, 40, 216, 235, 341

  abetting Lenin, 145

  American entrance into the war and, 28

  Battle of Verdun and, 20

  criticism of the Kaiser, 100

  death of, 420

  nadir of 1916, 21

  negotiated peace offer (Dec. 12, 1917), 19, 22, 25–26, 28–30, 38, 52–53, 59

  ousting of, 218–19

  submarine warfare and, 27, 28, 98, 99–100

  bin Laden, Osama, 146–47

  Bismarck, Otto von, 17, 19, 69

  Blank, Alexander, 70, 77

  Blank, Maria Alexandrovna, 69, 70

  estate at Kokushkino, 77

  Bliss, Tasker, 353

  Blum, Oscar, 155

  Boer War, 212

  Bogdanov, A. A., xi, 92, 93, 118

  Bogdanov, B., 131

  Bolsheviks/Bolshevik Party, 81, 90–91, 94–95, 119–20, 379

  on “agrarian question,” 209

  becomes Communist Party, 297

  Brest-Litovsk Treaty and, 324–25

  brutality of, 296, 310, 317

  Cheka and, 316–17

  Congress of the Bolshevik Party, 324

  control of Russia, 315, 356

  Council of People’s Commissars, 293, 296, 300

  coup (July Days), 229–30, 232–33

  as criminal organization, 94

  elections and, 228, 297–98

  fighting the “enemies of the people,” 294–95

  German funding of, 228

  goal of proletarian revolution, 140, 159, 208, 271–72

  Kerensky’s opinion of, 263

  Kschessinska Mansion meeting, 209

  Lenin as leader, 140, 209, 228

  Lenin’s critics in, 208

 

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