Hidden History: The Secret Origins of the First World War

Hidden History: The Secret Origins of the First World War

Of the many myths that befog the modern political mind, none is so corrupting of the understanding or so incongruent with historical fact as the notion that the wealthy and the powerful do not conspire. They do. They conspire continually, habitually, effectively, diabolically and on a scale that beggars the imagination. To deny this conspiracy…

The Russian Way in Warfare – The Brusilov Offensive

The Russian Way in Warfare – The Brusilov Offensive

There are several points of difference between this attack and the British one which deserve notice and give us a perception of “a Russian way in warfare,” Patrick Armstrong writes. An occasional series in which I attempt to illustrate, with historical examples, a “Russian style in warfare”. I have written about the “American style” here…

Why Putin Criticized the Bolshevik Counter Revolution: Trotsky, Parvus and the War on Civilization

Why Putin Criticized the Bolshevik Counter Revolution: Trotsky, Parvus and the War on Civilization

Doesn’t Putin respect Soviet Russian accomplishments including the sacrifices made to put down Hitler? How could Putin be a true anti-imperialist if he is an anti-revolutionary? A scandal arose this week as President Putin took some time to denounce the Bolshevik Revolution at the Valdai Discussion Club saying: “Just over a century ago, Russia objectively…

History of World War I: German Colonialism in Central and Eastern Europe and the Fall of Tsarist Russia

History of World War I: German Colonialism in Central and Eastern Europe and the Fall of Tsarist Russia

When in February 1918, the German politician Prince Max of Baden asked his country’s military dictator, Erich Ludendorff, what would happen if the latter’s spring offensive failed, he replied, “Then Germany will just have to suffer annihilation”. General Ludendorff’s response, which offended Prince Max’s sensitive liberal tastes, would be repeated almost verbatim by Hitler a…