Lecture 19: War, Revolution and the Interwar Years in Depth, 1919-1939

Today we looked at the conclusion of the Great War, including the Russian Revolution and its aftermath. Europe emerged from the war battered, broken, in the grips of revolution, and rendered hopeless by the slaughter of the preceeding years. The Treaty of Versailles made the situation even worse, paralyzing the democracies and emboldening the parties on the far right for years to come. We also defined two leading conditions of the 1920s and 1930s, anomie and appeasement.Vodcast of Lecture 19, War, Revolution and the Interwar Years