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“It is not only that Germany has been defeated in the war, Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany was defeated.”

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C. L. R. James
C. L. R. James

C. L. R. James, born on January 4, 1901, and died on May 19, 1989, was a Trinidadian-born British journalist, historian, writer, and socialist. He is renowned for his research on the history of the Caribbean region and his contributions to socialist thought. more

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