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By the time the First World War broke out, many Russians were convinced that dark forces—tyomnye sily—were secretly in control of the country.
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Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 7 Jan. 2025
The original Caligari, in which a mysterious doctor and his fortune-telling somnambulist commit a series of murders and drive two young people to madness, is often regarded as a critique of Germans’ blind obedience to tyrannical authority during the First World War.
—Elle Carroll, Vulture, 24 Dec. 2024
In Governing the World: The History of an Idea, the historian Mark Mazower writes that the quest for a global court began before the First World War, with an enthusiastic, international group of peace activists who hoped that arbitration could bring an end to war.
—Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 27 Nov. 2024
For their generation, the failure of the military gambits of the German Communists after the First World War had spelled out the idea that revolution in Western Europe was not an immediate, or even near, prospect.
—Thomas Meaney, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
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Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 7 Jan. 2025
The original Caligari, in which a mysterious doctor and his fortune-telling somnambulist commit a series of murders and drive two young people to madness, is often regarded as a critique of Germans’ blind obedience to tyrannical authority during the First World War.
—Elle Carroll, Vulture, 24 Dec. 2024
In Governing the World: The History of an Idea, the historian Mark Mazower writes that the quest for a global court began before the First World War, with an enthusiastic, international group of peace activists who hoped that arbitration could bring an end to war.
—Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 27 Nov. 2024
For their generation, the failure of the military gambits of the German Communists after the First World War had spelled out the idea that revolution in Western Europe was not an immediate, or even near, prospect.
—Thomas Meaney, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
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