Introduction

Abstract

The conflict of 1914–18, even before the armistice on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day, was known by many — at least in the West — as the Great War. Soon thereafter, probably due to the inventiveness of a British war correspondent, it came to be called by some the First World War.1 It is highly unlikely that Charles Repington expected the gigantic bloodletting to be the first in a series; what he meant was that there had never been another conflict — a world war — quite like it. How frighteningly correct he was.KeywordsWorld HistoryModern HistorySoviet Socialist RepublicPromissory NotePlenary AddressThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.