1917: Lenin, Wilson, and the Birth of the New World Disorder

How did two men move the world away from wars for land and treasure to wars over ideas and ideologies—a change that would go on to kill millions?

In April 1917, Woodrow Wilson—champion of American democracy but also of segregation, advocate for free trade and a new world order based on freedom and justice—thrust the United States into the First World War in order to make the “world safe for democracy”—only to see his dreams for a liberal international system dissolve into chaos, bloodshed, a...