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The Russian Origins of the First World War.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (345 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674063204
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Russian Origins of the First World WarDDC classification:
  • 940.3/11
LOC classification:
  • D514
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Author's Note -- Introduction: History from the Deep Freeze -- Chapter 1. The Strategic Imperative in 1914 -- Chapter 2. It Takes Two to Tango: The July Crisis -- Chapter 3. Russia's War: The Opening Round -- Chapter 4. Turkey's Turn -- Chapter 5. The Russians and Gallipoli -- Chapter 6. Russia and the Armenians -- Chapter 7. The Russians in Persia -- Chapter 8. Partitioning the Ottoman Empire -- Chapter 9. 1917: The Tsarist Empire at Its Zenith -- Conclusion: The October Revolution and Historical Amnesia -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Summary: In a major reinterpretation, Sean McMeekin rejects the standard notion of the war's beginning as either a Germano-Austrian pre-emptive strike or a miscalculation. The key to the outbreak of violence, he argues, lies in St. Petersburg. Russian statesmen unleashed the war through policy decisions based on imperial ambitions in the Near East.
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Author's Note -- Introduction: History from the Deep Freeze -- Chapter 1. The Strategic Imperative in 1914 -- Chapter 2. It Takes Two to Tango: The July Crisis -- Chapter 3. Russia's War: The Opening Round -- Chapter 4. Turkey's Turn -- Chapter 5. The Russians and Gallipoli -- Chapter 6. Russia and the Armenians -- Chapter 7. The Russians in Persia -- Chapter 8. Partitioning the Ottoman Empire -- Chapter 9. 1917: The Tsarist Empire at Its Zenith -- Conclusion: The October Revolution and Historical Amnesia -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

In a major reinterpretation, Sean McMeekin rejects the standard notion of the war's beginning as either a Germano-Austrian pre-emptive strike or a miscalculation. The key to the outbreak of violence, he argues, lies in St. Petersburg. Russian statesmen unleashed the war through policy decisions based on imperial ambitions in the Near East.

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