THE VIEW FROM GERMANY

The Sicheheitpolizei (Sipo) was made up of disparate elements of the Freikorps and others ready to do violence for the sake of the nationalist cause. When I say ‘disparate,’ by way of analogy, I mean as disparate as the many of claiming German linage in order to register to vote in the plebiscite – but that is for later. They were a security force ostensibly acting a as law enforcement agency in the name of the Government but ill-disciplined enough individually to terrorize the population they meant to keep in order by lawful means...

THE VIEW FROM RUSSIA

The doings of the Cheka, one way and the other, can be illustrated by looking at the final days of two very different poets: Blok, Aleksandr Alexandrovich, and Gumilev, Nikolai Stepanovich.

THE VIEW FROM AMERICA

Woodrow Wilson had set the framework for peace, the League of Nations. If fully realized, with the U.S. as first among equals, it could still bring about a kind of proto-globalization. This framework remained visibly in the distance along with a residue of hope in Wilson’s legacy for generations to come. After all, whatever administration may be found in the White House, of whichever strip, the Governance of the USA was surely the most democratic and along with Congress, the most stable. The mere husk that was the Government of the Republic of Germany in Berlin under Chancellor Fehrenbach and Foreign Minister Simons pleaded for help. 

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