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The Russian Origins of the First World War / Sean McMeekin.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2011]Copyright date: ©2011Description: 1 online resource : 16 halftones, 10 mapsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674062108
  • 9780674063204
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 940.3/11
LOC classification:
  • D514 -- M35 2011eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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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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.

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