Lenin and Mussolini

Abstract

Excerpts from articles appearing in previous issues of Foreign Affairs on subjects of the development of contemporary international relations are presented which include a September 1923 article by Harold J. Laski about Russian revolutionary Vladimir Ilich Lenin and Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini, a July 1930 article by Paul Scheffer about Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, and an April 1932 article by Paul Scheffer about German leader Adolf Hitler.; (AN 69880004)The Rise of the Modern Order What follows are selections from our archives that tell the story of the ideological battles of the past century and the emergence of the modern order. To make the package as a whole coherent and accessible, we have included only the most relevant parts of articles directly related to this theme and presented the articles in substantive, rather than strictly chronological, order. The contents of each article have not been rearranged, however, and all elisions have been clearly marked. The full text of all the articles in the package, and more, can be found in the accompanying e-book, The Clash of Ideas, available at ForeignAffairs.com.