By Jung-Freud
Just like medical mis-diagnoses come with
profound consequences, so can the misconceptions of history, the wrong
lessons learned from great events. World War II is remembered as the
defining event of the 20th century. Concluded around midcentury, it more
or less divided the century into pre-WWII and post-WWII periods,
thematically as well as temporally.
Granted, the pre-WWII period more than witnessed its share of violence as it was defined by two great events, World War I(aka The Great War) and the Bolshevik Revolution(and the ensuing Russian Civil War). There was also a kind of a Cold War(or Hot Peace) during the seemingly normalizing interwar years, a return to growth and stability. But for all the optimism(mostly in the US of the Jazz Age era), there were seismic rumblings beneath the strained optimism and fragile stability.
Granted, the pre-WWII period more than witnessed its share of violence as it was defined by two great events, World War I(aka The Great War) and the Bolshevik Revolution(and the ensuing Russian Civil War). There was also a kind of a Cold War(or Hot Peace) during the seemingly normalizing interwar years, a return to growth and stability. But for all the optimism(mostly in the US of the Jazz Age era), there were seismic rumblings beneath the strained optimism and fragile stability.
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