A. Royden D'souza

Beneath the surface of diplomatic cables lay the desperate financial interests of banking dynasties, the relentless drive for colonial resources, and an escalating arms race that had turned Europe into a loaded weapon, primed to fire by the very financiers and industrialists who stood to profit from the chaos.

The Red Terror was a campaign of systematic political repression, mass arrests, and executions carried out by the Bolshevik government after the Russian Revolution of 1917.