Russian Origins of the First World War

Name: Russian Origins of the First World War
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ISBN: 9780674072336

ISBN-10: 0674072332

ISBN-13: 9780674072336

Edition: 2011

Authors: Sean McMeekin

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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…

Book details

List price: $20.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 5/6/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 344
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English

Sean McMeekin is Assistant Professor of History at KoÃ§ University in Istanbul, Turkey.