Russian Origins of the First World War

Informationen zum Autor Sean McMeekin is Assistant Professor of History at Koç University in Istanbul, Turkey. Klappentext 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 based on imperial ambitions in the Near East. Zusammenfassung 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 based on imperial ambitions in the Near East.

Product details

• Authors: Sean McMeekin, McMeekin Sean
• Publisher: Belknap press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.05.2013
• EAN: 9780674072336
• ISBN: 978-0-674-07233-6
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 234 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Russia, European History, First World War, International Relations, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, c 1910 to c 1919, c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period), HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War I