Safe for Democracy: The Anglo-American Response to Revolution, 1913-1923

By Lloyd C. Gardner

Book Overview

This ground-breaking book probes the way that two capitalist superpowers, Great Britain and the United States, responded to the momentous challenge of revolution that emerged during the early years of this century. Focusing on two key figures--Woodrow Wilson and David Lloyd George--the book explores the collective impact on the Western democracies of the revolutions that swept Mexico in 1910, China in 1911, and, especially, Russia in 1917.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195041550
• ISBN13: 9780195041552
• Release Date: March 1987
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Enjoyable Reading from Beginning to End

This book is at the same time informative and a good read. The author covers a wide range of actors and situations, tracing threads of events that culminated in Wilson's League of Nations. Not simply focusing on real-politics, the author emphasizes the importance of each nation's internal struggles (e.g. class struggle), the extra-national movements like communism, and the striking changes in global consciousness that challenged both imperialism and liberalism alike.Excellent and fun read - highly recommended!