• About
  • Policies
  • What is openaccess
  • Library
  • Contact
Advanced search
      View Item 
      •   BUIR Home
      • University Library
      • Bilkent Theses
      • Theses - Department of History
      • Dept. of History - Master's degree
      • View Item
      •   BUIR Home
      • University Library
      • Bilkent Theses
      • Theses - Department of History
      • Dept. of History - Master's degree
      • View Item
      JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.

      "Wilson VS. Lenin" revisited: The contending ideas of a new world order

      Thumbnail
      Embargo Lift Date: 2020-06-01
      View / Download
      5.9 Mb
      Author
      Deniz, Mert
      Advisor
      Latimer, Paul
      Date
      2018-07
      Publisher
      Bilkent University
      Language
      English
      Type
      Thesis
      Item Usage Stats
      311
      views
      39
      downloads
      Abstract
      The Great War brought destruction and death when it got unleashed with the bullet of an assassin in 1914. Yet, this was also the beginning of a New Order as much as being the end of the Old Order. The forerunners of this New Era carne from two distinct corners of the world, namely America and Russia when Thomas Woodrow Wilson and Vladimir Ilyich "Lenin" Ulyanov proposed their peace formulae with the Fourteen Points of January 1918 and the Soviet Peace Decree of October 1917. This study provides an analysis of the differences and parallels between these formulae. In order to meet this objective, the individual biographies of Wilson and Lenin, and the histories of the United States and Russia are examined in detail as it is argued that the given features of these declarations were the consequences of the different personal experiences and cultural backgrounds of these two leaders as well as the domestic issues and histories of their countries. The study is structured around the main argument that Wilson and Lenin recognized the Great War as the ultimate crisis of the Old World with their parallel arguments. They saw the end of the Imperial Era, and in this matter, they offered new military, diplomatic and economic norms of the New World. Nevertheless, Wilson and Lenin had very different reasons, methods and designs for the New Order. These different discourses were the origins of both order and disorder of the New Era.
      Keywords
      First World War
      Lenin
      Progressivism
      Socialism
      Woodrow Wilson
      Permalink
      http://hdl.handle.net/11693/47716
      Collections
      • Dept. of History - Master's degree 189
      Show full item record

      Browse

      All of BUIRCommunities & CollectionsTitlesAuthorsAdvisorsBy Issue DateKeywordsTypeDepartmentsThis CollectionTitlesAuthorsAdvisorsBy Issue DateKeywordsTypeDepartments

      My Account

      Login

      Statistics

      View Usage StatisticsView Google Analytics Statistics

      Bilkent University

      If you have trouble accessing this page and need to request an alternate format, contact the site administrator. Phone: (312) 290 1771
      Copyright © Bilkent University - Library IT

      Contact Us | Send Feedback | Off-Campus Access | Admin | Privacy