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The Russian origins of the First World War /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McMeekin, Sean, 1974- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: History from the Deep Freeze
  • The Strategic Imperative in 1914
  • It Takes Two to Tango : The July Crisis
  • Russia's War : The Opening Round
  • Turkey's Turn
  • The Russians and Gallipoli
  • Russia and the Armenians
  • The Russians in Persia
  • Partitioning the Ottoman Empire
  • 1917 : The Tsarist Empire at Its Zenith
  • Conclusion: The October Revolution and Historical Amnesia.