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The Russian Origins of the First World War (Paperback)
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The Russian Origins of the First World War (Paperback)
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Loot Price R567
Discovery Miles 5 670
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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
expose of Russia's aims in the First World War will illuminate our
understanding of the twentieth century.
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