The European post-war reconfiguration proved to be in fact a real failure, not only because, in the light of the Wilsonian programme, it was thought to draw boundaries where these, due to the ethnic, cultural and linguistic diversity, were not traceable, but even because, sacrificing the principle of national self-determination on the altar of imperial interests, it came to create those fatal conditions from which Fascism, Nazism and Stalinism would soon establish their respective revisionist strategies. Dr. Federico Trocini, Italian-German Historical Institute, Foundation “Bruno Kessler” Trento, Italy (peer reviewing)