The Abyss: World War I and the End of the First Age of Globalization-A Selection from The War of the World Quotes.
1. "The financial world has been staggering under a series of blows such as the delicate system of international credit has never before witnessed, or even imagined… Nothing so widespread and so world-wide has ever been known before. Nothing…could have testified more clearly to the impossibility of running modern civilisation and war together than this…collapse of prices, produced not by the actual outbreak of a small war, but by fear of a war between some of the Great Powers of Europe. The key phrase here is ‘fear of a war’."
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Niall Ferguson, The Abyss: World War I and the End of the First Age of Globalization-A Selection from The War of the World
2. "Indeed, there were those who maintained that Russia’s defeat at the hands of the Japanese was itself the result of a Jewish conspiracy. According to S. A. Nilus, a secret Jewish council known as the Sanhedrin had hypnotized the Japanese into believing they were one of the tribes of Israel; it was the Jews’ aim, Nilus insisted, ‘to set a distraught Russia awash with blood and to inundate it, and then Europe, with the yellow hordes of a resurgent China guided by Japan’. The"
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Niall Ferguson, The Abyss: World War I and the End of the First Age of Globalization-A Selection from The War of the World
3. "Ashkenazi"
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Niall Ferguson, The Abyss: World War I and the End of the First Age of Globalization-A Selection from The War of the World
4. "in response to discrimination and persecution in the Holy Roman Empire. They had moved further east into the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and, despite the violence directed against them during the 1648 Ukrainian revolt, had continued this eastward pattern of migration and settlement into the eighteenth century. With the partitions of Poland, the areas of densest Jewish settlement came under Russian rule,"
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Niall Ferguson, The Abyss: World War I and the End of the First Age of Globalization-A Selection from The War of the World
5. "Jews were emphatically second-class subjects of the Tsar. A Pale of Settlement, outside which Jews were not supposed to reside, had been established by Catherine II in 1791, though it was not precisely delineated until 1835. It consisted of Russian-controlled Poland"
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Niall Ferguson, The Abyss: World War I and the End of the First Age of Globalization-A Selection from The War of the World
6. "The Armenian genocide was a horrific illustration of the convulsions that could seize a multi-ethnic polity trying to mutate from empire into nation state."
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Niall Ferguson, The Abyss: World War I and the End of the First Age of Globalization-A Selection from The War of the World
7. "By the summer of 1920 Lenin felt confident enough to export the Revolution westwards, ordering the Red Army to march on Warsaw and confidently talking of the need to ‘sovietize Hungary and perhaps Czechia and Romania too’. Only their decisive defeat by the Polish army on the banks of the River Vistula halted the spread of the Bolshevik epidemic."
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Niall Ferguson, The Abyss: World War I and the End of the First Age of Globalization-A Selection from The War of the World
8. "The only way to ensure that peasants handed over their grain to feed the Red Army, he insisted, was to order exemplary executions of so-called kulaks, the supposedly rapacious capitalist peasants whom it suited the Bolsheviks to demonize. ‘How can you make a revolution without firing squads?’ Lenin asked. ‘If we can’t shoot a White Guard saboteur, what sort of great revolution is it? Nothing but talk and a bowl of mush."
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Niall Ferguson, The Abyss: World War I and the End of the First Age of Globalization-A Selection from The War of the World