| ID | 135554 |
| Title Proper | Birth of a new century |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Packer, George |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | What the British historian Eric Hobsbawm called “the long 19th century” ended 100 years ago, in 1914, in Sarajevo, with the two pistol shots that sparked World War I. Another historian, Fritz Stern, described that war as “the first calamity of the 20th century … the calamity from which all other calamities sprang.” These disasters included the Great War itself, which claimed some 20 million lives, including victims of the new century’s first genocide, in Turkey; the October Revolution in St. Petersburg, which gave birth to an ideological empire that would kill tens of millions of people and imprison hundreds of millions more; the rise of Nazism out of Germany’s defeat; World War II, with another 60 million deaths, including genocide on an unprecedented scale; the upheavals and wars beyond the borders of Europe that followed the end of colonialism; and the division of the postwar world into two nuclear-armed camps, which fought each other through proxies in post-colonial lands. |
| `In' analytical Note | Foreign Policy Vol. , No.209; Nov-Dec.2014: p.53-55 |
| Journal Source | Foreign Policy 2014-12 |
| Standard Number | United States – US |