ABSTRACT
The end of World War I did not end the violence in Europe. While western Europe remained relatively stable in the immediate post-war period, eastern and southern Europe endured considerable turmoil. The Russian Revolution, itself a direct product of the war, continued its bloody course, producing a civil war inside Russia and a war between the Soviet Union and the newly created state of Poland. Further to the south, discontent with the post-war settlement ignited the ancient and passionate animosities between Greece and Turkey. These wars demonstrated not only that the Paris Peace Conference had fallen far short of its goals, but that the underlying causes of World War I, including nationalism, had not dissipated.
