Imperial Apocalypse - The Great War and the Destruction of the Russian Empire

A unique study which uses the collapse of Tsarist Russia and its consequences to argue that the events on the often-forgotten Eastern Front of WWI had a stronger impact on the outcome of the war than is usually accepted.

List of contents

• Preface


• Introduction: Imperial Challenge


• 1: The Outbreak of War and the Transformation of the Borderlands


• 2: The Front Migrates


• 3: Remobilizing the Military: Combat Innovation, POWs, and Forced Labor


• 4: Remobilizing Society: Nurses, Doctors, and Social Control


• 5: Revolution


• 6: Decolonization


• Conclusion: Imperial Apocalypse


• Works Cited

About the author

Joshua A. Sanborn is the author of two previous books: Drafting the Russian Nation: Military Conscription, Total War, and Mass Politics, 1905-1925 and, with co-author Annette Timm, Gender, Sex, and the Shaping of Modern Europe: A History from the French Revolution to the Present Day. He lives in Easton, Pennsylvania, with his wife and two children.

Summary

A unique study which uses the collapse of Tsarist Russia and its consequences to argue that the events on the often-forgotten Eastern Front of WWI had a stronger impact on the outcome of the war than is usually accepted.

Additional text

Sanborn's command of his vast primary source base lends his narrative authority, his prose is unfailingly engaging, and his insights numerous. The many personal stories he tells of humble citizens caught up in this imperial "apocalypse" provide moving illustrations of the broad processes he charts. Above all, no previous treatment of Russia's Great War and revolution makes so palpable the scale of chaos and misery endured by the population as war-induced violence spun out of anyone's control.

Product details

• Authors: Sanborn, Joshua A Sanborn, Joshua A. Sanborn, Joshua A. (Professor of History Sanborn, Sanborn Joshua A.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2015
• EAN: 9780198745686
• ISBN: 978-0-19-874568-6
• No. of pages: 300
• Series: The Greater War; The Greater War
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Russia, European History, First World War, HISTORY / Europe / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Colonialism & imperialism, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, Colonialism and imperialism, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period), 1917–1923 (Russian Revolutionary period), HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War I, HISTORY / Revolutions, Uprisings & Rebellions