World War One had unmasked one of modern histories most powerful lies: the superiority of the colonizing West. In the misery of the trenches as well as for intellectuals in the periphery, the return to savagery by Western powers undermined the “civilizing mission” ideology that had taken root globally through colonial rule. We explore the process of the rise and fall of ideologies.

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Tags:  Ideology,  World War 1,  Fall,  Europe,  Communism,  War,  Colonialism,  Imperialism,  Literature,  Empire,  Night School