Karl Marx was wrong: Wars, not revolutions, are “the locomotives of history.” Like a devastating storm, war sweeps away the people, institutions, and attitudes that stand in its path, and on this wreckage-strewn landscape, war creates opportunities for the leaders, organizations, and ideas that promise to master its destructive fury. Nowhere was the interplay of war’s des (...)
March 08, 2013
Books
Little Stalins
Iron CurtainThe Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944–1956Anne ApplebaumDoubleday, $35, 566 pp.
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