An Improbable War?: The Outbreak of World War I and European Political Culture Before 1914

by David Stevenson (Editor), HolgerAfflerbach (Author)

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  2012

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  The First World War has been described as the primordial catastrophe of the 20th century. Arguably, Italian Fascism, German National Socialism and Soviet Leninism and Stalinism would not have emerged without the cultural and political shock of World War I. The question why this catastrophe happened therefore preoccupies historians to this day.