The chief fruit of the First World War was the Russian Revolution and the rise of Communism as a national power.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914.
The Russian revolution was to an unprecedented degree the cause of the proletariat of the whole world becoming more revolutionary.
Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
With his trademark courage and conviction, President Reagan led us out of the Cold War, spreading his vision of freedom, resulting in the release of millions of people from the yoke of communism.
Everybody has forgotten that Russia helped start the Second World War.
This radical transformation of world power relationships reflects primarily in the case of both the USA and the USSR the growth of the productive forces.
America stood at the summit of power, emerging from the Cold War as an economic, cultural and military force without equal.
The First World War may have been a uniquely horrific war, but it was also plainly a just war.
It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.
The collapse of Russia was the second great event of 1917.