The Russian Origins of the First World War / / Sean McMeekin.
The catastrophe of the First World War, and the destruction, revolution, and enduring hostilities it wrought, make the issue of its origins a perennial puzzle. Since World War II, Germany has been viewed as the primary culprit. Now, in a major reinterpretation of the conflict, Sean McMeekin rejects...
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McMeekin, Sean, author. The Russian Origins of the First World War / Sean McMeekin. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2011] ©2011 1 online resource : 16 halftones, 10 maps text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Maps -- Abbreviations -- Author's Note -- Introduction -- Chapter One. The Strategic Imperative in 1914 -- Chapter Two. It Takes Two to Tango -- Chapter Three. Russia's War -- Chapter Four. Turkey's Turn -- Chapter Five. The Russians and Gallipoli -- Chapter Six. Russia and the Armenians -- Chapter Seven. The Russians in Persia -- Chapter Eight. Partitioning the Ottoman Empire -- Chapter Nine. 1917 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star The catastrophe of the First World War, and the destruction, revolution, and enduring hostilities it wrought, make the issue of its origins a perennial puzzle. Since World War II, Germany has been viewed as the primary culprit. Now, in a major reinterpretation of the conflict, Sean McMeekin rejects the standard notions of the war's beginning as either a Germano-Austrian preemptive strike or a "tragedy of miscalculation." Instead, he proposes that the key to the outbreak of violence lies in St. Petersburg.It was Russian statesmen who unleashed the war through conscious policy decisions based on imperial ambitions in the Near East. Unlike their civilian counterparts in Berlin, who would have preferred to localize the Austro-Serbian conflict, Russian leaders desired a more general war so long as British participation was assured. The war of 1914 was launched at a propitious moment for harnessing the might of Britain and France to neutralize the German threat to Russia's goal: partitioning the Ottoman Empire to ensure control of the Straits between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean.Nearly a century has passed since the guns fell silent on the western front. But in the lands of the former Ottoman Empire, World War I smolders still. Sunnis and Shiites, Arabs and Jews, and other regional antagonists continue fighting over the last scraps of the Ottoman inheritance. As we seek to make sense of these conflicts, McMeekin's powerful exposé of Russia's aims in the First World War will illuminate our understanding of the twentieth century. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019) HISTORY / Military / World War I. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK GESAMTPAKET / COMPLETE PACKAGE 2011 9783110261189 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK PACKAGE ENGLISH LANGUAGES TITLES 2011 9783110261233 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK PAKET PHILOSOPHIE UND GESCHICHTE 2011 9783110261257 ZDB-23-DGE Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP Complete eBook Package 2011-2014 9783110374889 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package 2011 9783110374926 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442205 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Backlist 2000-2014 9783110459517 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Backlist 2000-2015 9783110662566 print 9780674062108 https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674063204 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780674063204.jpg |
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McMeekin, Sean, The Russian Origins of the First World War / Frontmatter -- Contents -- Maps -- Abbreviations -- Author's Note -- Introduction -- Chapter One. The Strategic Imperative in 1914 -- Chapter Two. It Takes Two to Tango -- Chapter Three. Russia's War -- Chapter Four. Turkey's Turn -- Chapter Five. The Russians and Gallipoli -- Chapter Six. Russia and the Armenians -- Chapter Seven. The Russians in Persia -- Chapter Eight. Partitioning the Ottoman Empire -- Chapter Nine. 1917 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Maps -- Abbreviations -- Author's Note -- Introduction -- Chapter One. The Strategic Imperative in 1914 -- Chapter Two. It Takes Two to Tango -- Chapter Three. Russia's War -- Chapter Four. Turkey's Turn -- Chapter Five. The Russians and Gallipoli -- Chapter Six. Russia and the Armenians -- Chapter Seven. The Russians in Persia -- Chapter Eight. Partitioning the Ottoman Empire -- Chapter Nine. 1917 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Maps -- Abbreviations -- Author's Note -- Introduction -- Chapter One. The Strategic Imperative in 1914 -- Chapter Two. It Takes Two to Tango -- Chapter Three. Russia's War -- Chapter Four. Turkey's Turn -- Chapter Five. The Russians and Gallipoli -- Chapter Six. Russia and the Armenians -- Chapter Seven. The Russians in Persia -- Chapter Eight. Partitioning the Ottoman Empire -- Chapter Nine. 1917 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
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