The world at the cross roads

By Boris L. Brasol and Boris Leo Brasol

Book Overview

When the old order collapses, arguments turn fatal. Ideas become instruments of power. In The World at the Cross Roads, Boris L. Brasol, a Russian emigre observer of the interwar years, confronts the forces reshaping nations and consciences. This historical political nonfiction political essay collection gathers Brasol's anti-bolshevik literature and Russian emigre commentary into a sustained challenge to anti-communism and bolshevism as lived reality, not abstraction. His perspective, shaped by exile and by first-hand knowledge of imperial collapse, turns headlines into diagnosis, linking cabinet decisions, street violence, and ideological slogans. Ranging across world politics and ideology, he weighs the contagion of revolutionary tactics against the claims of tradition, law, and faith, tracing the pressures that drove early Soviet Russia and unsettled interwar Europe politics. For readers of modern Europe, the book captures the mood of a continent at a crossroads, where revolution and counterrevolution competed for legitimacy and language daily. Read today, it works equally as twentieth century history reading and as a sharp political science reference for anyone interested in propaganda, state power, and the psychology of mass movements. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern complete text edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike. For casual readers, it offers an uncompromising window into a vanished moment when the future seemed undecided; for classic-history collectors, it stands as a record of dissent and a sober document of its century.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9389265983
• ISBN13: 9789389265989
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Alpha Edition
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"