History

Kàrolyi & Bethlen: Hungary

Makers of the Modern World Series
by Bryan Cartledge

After the Trianon treaty, Hungary loses two-thirds of its territory and half its population -- “a punishment without historical precedent” according to Count Albert Apponyi

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Ion Bratianu: Romania

Makers of the Modern World: The peace conferences of 1919-23 and their aftermath
by Keith Hitchin

To be published in June 2010 on the 90th anniversary of the Treaty of Trianon with Hungary, this biography brings back to memories Ion Bratianu, one of the lesser-known figures who attended the Peace Conferences, largely because after 1945 the Romanian Communist regime virtually wrote him out of the country’s history until its fall in 1989.

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Wellington Koo: China

Makers of the Modern World: The peace conferences of 1919-23 and their aftermath
by Jonathan Clements

Gu Weijun, a.k.a. Wellington Koo was China’s first representative to the League of Nations, and ended up as acting president of Republican China during the unrest of the period 1926-27...

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Prince Saionji: Japan

Makers of the Modern World: The peace conferences of 1919-23 and their aftermath
by Jonathan Clements

The Japanese delegation at the Paris Peace Conference did not have the Japanese prime or foreign ministers with them as they had only just been elected and had plenty to do back home. The delegation was instead led by Prince Saionji, the dashing ‘kingmaker’ of early 20th-century Japanese politics ...

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Lenin


by Sean Sheehan

'Lenin' is a new title in our Life & Times Series.

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Price: £6.40