HOW DID THE "REAL" TWENTIETH CENTURY (THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR)
The First World War - the political, cultural and spiritual catastrophe of the civilized world, which led to all the subsequent history of the twentieth century. She buried hopes intellectuals positivist sense the possibility of a conflict-forward progress of mankind. Despite the fact that the origins of the First World War were rooted in the very heart of the historical development of Europe in the late XIX-early XX centuries. Its beginning was a complete surprise to all political groups and social strata. The combination of the historical inevitability of surprise and psychological world catastrophe was a major shock for her contemporaries and the most important lesson for the political elite of the world’s leading powers of the second half of XX century. The author explores the process of sliding into Europe to an unprecedented military massacre against a broad historical background, which gives the picture drawn in the multidimensionality.