What every schoolchild doesn't know. (problems that resulted from breakup of Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires after World War I) (special issue: 35th Anniversary 1955-1990)

National Review | November 5, 1990| | Copyright

ABOUT THE tragedies of our century, George F. Kennan said that "all the lines of inquiry lead back to World War I." Throughout the previous century, two empires had between them dominated Central Europe and the Near East: the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Ottoman Empire. Once, every schoolchild was taught that breaking up these empires was "a good thing." We are now painfully aware how false that is.

A brief look at the map shows that the immediate practical effect of the breakup was the creation of a mosaic of small countries between Germany and Red Russia, and the ...

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