Between the Wars

Events and personalities of the interlude between the two World Wars, focusing on the three major powers of the new, looming conflict: Germany, the U.S., and Soviet Russia.

The Myth of “Nazi Terror”

The pernicious myth that the Brown-shirted Stormtroopers (Sturmabteilung or SA) of the National-Socialist Movement were “violent thugs” is a popular political slander, concocted by disingenuous “historians” from half-truths, while neglecting inconvenient facts. It is true that the National Socialists participated in their fair share of brawls, however, they were comparatively much less violent than the…

American Famine and the Failure of the New Deal

Two of the great myths of recent history are that: Germany achieved economic recovery through rearmament; Roosevelt overcame the Depression through his New Deal social reforms. These assumptions are in inverse proportion to actuality. Germany achieved economic recovery in a similar way the Labour Government in New Zealand did at about the same time: state…

Springtime for Trotsky

Leon Trotsky. By Irving Howe. Viking Press, 1978, 214 pages. Leon Trotsky has always had a certain appeal for intellectuals that the other Bolshevik leaders lacked. The reasons for this are clear enough. He was a writer, an occasional literary critic — according to Irving Howe, a very good one — and an historian (of…

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