The Russian Origins of the First World War |
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| Author:
| McMeekin, Sean |
| ISBN: | 978-0-674-06210-8 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2011 |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press
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| Imprint: | Belknap Press |
| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | Contact Supplier contact
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Book Description:
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In a major reinterpretation, Sean McMeekin rejects the standard notion of the warâe(tm)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.
In a major reinterpretation, Sean McMeekin rejects the standard notion of the warâe(tm)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.