The Rage of Nations

Marked by two world wars the Holocaust and a host of violent conflicts genocides and violent revolutions the twentieth century has been the most explosive and destructive in human history. As we enter the twenty-first century it is vital that we understand what went wrong in the preceding hundred years. This book the first of a two-volume work by historian Edward Kantowicz provides an engaging narrative that chronicles the events people and ideas driving the world's social and political course in the twentieth century. The Rage of Nations covers the landmark events from 1900 through the Second World War: the Russo-Japanese War the global repercussions of World War I the Russian Revolution the Great Depression Mussolini's fascism Hitler's nazism Stalin's socialism the Spanish Civil War the China of Mao and Chiang Kai-shek World War II the development of the atomic bomb and more.In addition Kantowicz probes behind the events themselves examining their source in the five terrible isms of the twentieth century-anarchism socialism imperialism nationalism and ethnocentrism. Providing compelling often disconcerting reading The Rage of Nations will help us make sense of what is happening in the world today by considering important lessons from our recent past.