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Starvation and Anarchy.
- Source :
- New Republic; 11/19/19, Vol. 20 Issue 259, p349-351, 3p
- Publication Year :
- 1919
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Abstract
- Discusses the impact of starvation and anarchy in post-war Europe. Reference on "Under Fire" of French novelist Henri Barbusse on the on the horrors of war and famine; Weakness of the Liberal mind is to depreciate the factor of force in human affairs; Comparison of France with the militarism of Napoleon; Failure of the Paris Peace Conference gain moral authority; British foreign policies in the Baltic States to secure its independence and self-determination; Creation of a German mercenary corps to ward off further Bolshevik ambitions in the Baltic; Assertion of the author that the class war which hunger has sharpened smolders beneath it and everywhere the precarious social balance of power is reflected in the feebleness of the central authority; Claim of the author that anarchy is working out to be the cure uncertainty of the future of Russia; Control of central authority cannot emerge out of hunger.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00286583
- Volume :
- 20
- Issue :
- 259
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- New Republic
- Publication Type :
- Periodical
- Accession number :
- 15123344