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The Russian origins of the First World War
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Argues that Russian ambitions to dismantle the Ottoman Empire explain much about World War I, that is unsatisfactorily explained otherwise.
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- Creator
- Sean McMeekin
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First Harvard University Press paperback edition
- Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2013
- Physical Details
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- xii, 324 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780674072336, 9780674062108, 0674062108, 0674072332
- OCLC
- ocn961882785, ocn812067661
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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