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A 5 page overview of the novel by Erich Maria Remarque. The author reviews the historical stage and notes how Communism was an element of ever-increasing importance on that stage. No additional sources are listed.
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Quiet on the Western Front" is a classic in twentieth century literature. It details the experiences of young friends who enlist to fight in the German Army during World
War I. The novel is most often regarded as a first-hand introduction to the horrors of war. Young men, if they survive, are turned inside out emotionally and
psychologically yet they are goaded on by the ideologies of nationalism. This process, however, is critical in another aspect of world history. That aspect is the arrival of
Communism onto the scene of world affairs. While "All Quite on the Western Front" does not directly confront Communism, it sets the stage for better understanding that phenomenal wave
which would overtake the world in just a few short years after the novels culmination. Karl Marx had released the "Communist Manifesto" in 1848, over sixty years before the
beginning of World War I and one of the worlds primary Communist organizations, the German Communist League had been founded the year before. Much societal division was thus in
play during this early history of Germany. After the war, however, that division would become even more pronounced. World War I spanned
a four year period between 1914 and 1918. Nearly ten million lives were lost. World War I, and in fact, the consequent rise of Communism, resulted from a
variety of causes. The most prominent of these was the rise of nationalism. People of common geographic origin, language, and history began to see themselves as members of
large cultural affiliations. What had previously been small isolated states of people began to unite into nations. Germany was certainly not exempt from these developments. "All Quite
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