A Different Look at WWI; Names in History and Morrisonville Il.

A)A different look at WWI.

The three books 'History of Modern France' by Alfred Cobban, 'Russia: A History and An Interpretation' by Mikhail Florinsky and 'History of Russian Philosophy' by Nikolai Lossky, give an interesting and deeper look at the drastic upheaval of change immediately after WWI.

The war began and the nations of england, germany, france, Serbia et al., and Russia became engaged in long and brutal suicidal trench warfare. The U.S. then entered the war, introduced the tank and the war quickly ended.

It was immediately after WWI, according to Cobban, that France broke off centuries long Vatican ties of religious figures involved with government. It was also immediately after WWI in 1915 that the decimated Russian army, according to Florinsky, came limping back to Russia and the events of the Russian revolution began, culminating in the total suppression of all religion- including the centuries-long tradition of the Russian Orthodox church.

An interesting paradox of the Russian revolution, was that from the late 1700's- early 1800's, Russian orthodox religous philosophers (by FAR the dominant philosophical movement in the History of Russia up to that time- almost the ONLY movement) introduced the seminal notion of "sobornost"- which means "commonality". During the revolution, the various socialist forces (communism), did not utilize these philosophers nor the orthodox church as allies, even though there was a strong religious element in the basis of the social democratic movement (Emil Fuchs and others) initially formed in Germany and even though they would have had allies already in place throughout Russia on Sunday morning.

To the contrary, after the revolution, the bolshies (communists- initially social democrats) expelled 200 academics, including the most talented orthodox philosophers, and suppressed all activities of the Russian orthodox church.

One could argue that there were only two other periods in history which contained religious change/turmoil on such grand scales of geography and population:
1) The Sack of Rome and the corresponding fall of polytheism throughout what was the Roman empire, and..
2) The Period directly after the dropping of the Atomic bombs on Japan that ended WWII, which saw:
A) the complete suppression of religion by the new government of Communist China,
B) The separation of British India and the cross migration of Hindus and Muslims to form the countries we know today of India and Pakistan, and
C) The foundation of the Nation of Israel with the forced exodus of the Palestinians.

It was after WWI that the national socialist movement rears its head in Germany- before then the overwhelming philosophical movement in Germany was that of the enlightenment -german idealism- Kant, Hegel, Schelling, and the materialist reaction to it- Marx, Feuerbach etc. where there are only the most microscopic elements of nationalism/racism.

From the viewpoint added by the three works of history mentioned above, it appears that after WWI the only stable force in Europe in control and with military strength; from the Atlantic across all of Russia; was that of the allied coalition- led overwhelmingly by the U.S..

For both sides of our family, it is CLEAR that WWI was the dominant event that brought them to the U.S.. Dad's side, after WWI my great-grandmother came from france, and great-grandparents came from poland. Mom's side great-grandparents came from england, great-grandparents came from Russia. (Lithuania)

B) U.S. Civil War/U.S. history fun facts:

1) British Prime Minister Lord Russell, an ancestor from mother's side is involved with confederate spy fiasco involving England, Lincoln and confederate Thomas Mason.

2) Just prior to U.S. Civil War, southern romania/hungary has uprising causing battles with imperial Russia.

3) Morrisonville, Illinois is 25 miles south of Springfield, in Christian County. The shape of the county is known as "the Dent", like Cook County Il., and like the name Dent county Mo.- 3 three dents, like the chewing gum. Names associated with the history of Lincoln/the civil war: Charles Forbes, Stephens, Montgomery Blair, Woods (step-ancestor father's side), Union Col. James Morrison-(one source claims Morrison responsible for fiasco of the battle of the crater, petersburg virginia) Morrisonville, Il. founded 1872, Buchanan (ancester mothers side). A Luczak(Volkonsky) was a general in the russian army during the 1860's.

4) Morrisonville names/close from history books: Weber (Max), Pratt (one of the founding mormons), Harman(2nd religious awakening), Voorhees, Anna Held(WWI entertainer), Dierdorf(region of southwest germany), Fuchs (Emil theologian/Klaus WWII spy), Wilson (Woodrow), McKinley, Rush (Benjamin), Allen (Ethan), Paine (Thomas), DeClerck (religious painter), Spengler (Psychologist), Carter (Journalist), Rhoads (Journalist), White (tribune reporter during civil war critical of Lincoln), Long (Huey), Probst, Monroe, Stewart (Missouri Governor), Dozier (St. Louis History), Drew (Dennis stepson- St. Louis History), Wells (H.G.), Griffith (D.W.), Kimmel(Civil War Photographer), Cook(Hawaiian Islands), Lefebvre, Colbert(French Govt. Figure), Napoleon, Beck(Polish Diplomat), Durbin(Lithuanian), Ferrell, Pomeroy, Davis(Jefferson), Franklin, Skinner, Hunt, Unser, Beatty, Goebel, Peet, Taylor, Howe(England), Vickers(England), Dunkerque, Grundy (Grundy county Il.), Moore, Richter(Pianist), Rosenthal(Iwo Jima Photographer), Millburg(German, like "hops" burg, or the "hops" of a St. Louis Brewery), Black(Lord Black, like Blackburn-CEO of Country Insurance), Schaefer, Seelbach(Louisville Hotel family), Sheedy, Simmons(English), Snyder(or Schneider), Hughes, Wittelsbach(German noble house-Bach musicians), Crane(Stephen), Oliver, Obrien/Allison, Froebel(Kindergarten inventor)/Hartmann(Nikolai-Phenomenology), Mahan(Civil War Union naval commander), Harris(Eric-Irish), Reid(English), McVeigh(Germany).

..others attached: Nixon, Elias(european intellectual Norbert, relatives Downey), Shields, Martin, Strauss-Krauss(German-Lithuanian)/Kierkegaard, Hale/Kelley

Names in History from Taylorville Il.,(Christian County)the last stop on Lincoln's legal circuit duties as a Lawyer:
Boehme(German Theologian), Hesse(German noble house/Late Romanov marriage), Burton, Mott(s)(French-pronounced Motes), Wagner, Law, Beddinger, Brotherton(English), Brown, Kerner, Perry, Westrich (German Industrialist), Adams, Ward, Bell, Blake, Michaels(Rurik), Summers, France(Nascar), Lawrence, Miller, Parker, Wright(Rurik or Kittyhawk), Sloan(GM CEO of "planned obsolescence"), Tarrant(Old English), Grace