001479049 000__ 05253nam\a22010215i\4500 001479049 001__ 1479049 001479049 003__ DE-B1597 001479049 005__ 20231101194155.0 001479049 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001479049 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001479049 008__ 190708s2011\\\\mau\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001479049 020__ $$a9780674063204 001479049 0247_ $$a10.4159/harvard.9780674063204$$2doi 001479049 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)178126 001479049 035__ $$a(OCoLC)768411322 001479049 035__ $$a(OCoLC)979683594 001479049 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001479049 0410_ $$aeng 001479049 044__ $$amau$$cUS-MA 001479049 050_4 $$aD514 -- M35 2011eb 001479049 072_7 $$aHIS027090$$2bisacsh 001479049 08204 $$a940.3/11 001479049 1001_ $$aMcMeekin, Sean,$$eauthor. 001479049 24514 $$aThe Russian Origins of the First World War /$$cSean McMeekin. 001479049 264_1 $$aCambridge, MA :$$bHarvard University Press,$$c[2011] 001479049 264_4 $$c©2011 001479049 300__ $$a1 online resource :$$b16 halftones, 10 maps 001479049 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001479049 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001479049 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001479049 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001479049 50500 $$tFrontmatter --$$tContents --$$tMaps --$$tAbbreviations --$$tAuthor's Note --$$tIntroduction --$$tChapter One. The Strategic Imperative in 1914 --$$tChapter Two. It Takes Two to Tango --$$tChapter Three. Russia's War --$$tChapter Four. Turkey's Turn --$$tChapter Five. The Russians and Gallipoli --$$tChapter Six. Russia and the Armenians --$$tChapter Seven. The Russians in Persia --$$tChapter Eight. Partitioning the Ottoman Empire --$$tChapter Nine. 1917 --$$tConclusion --$$tNotes --$$tBibliography --$$tAcknowledgments --$$tIndex 001479049 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001479049 520__ $$aThe catastrophe of the First World War, and the destruction, revolution, and enduring hostilities it wrought, make the issue of its origins a perennial puzzle. Since World War II, Germany has been viewed as the primary culprit. Now, in a major reinterpretation of the conflict, Sean McMeekin rejects the standard notions of the war's beginning as either a Germano-Austrian preemptive strike or a "tragedy of miscalculation." Instead, he proposes that the key to the outbreak of violence lies in St. Petersburg.It was Russian statesmen who unleashed the war through conscious policy decisions based on imperial ambitions in the Near East. Unlike their civilian counterparts in Berlin, who would have preferred to localize the Austro-Serbian conflict, Russian leaders desired a more general war so long as British participation was assured. The war of 1914 was launched at a propitious moment for harnessing the might of Britain and France to neutralize the German threat to Russia's goal: partitioning the Ottoman Empire to ensure control of the Straits between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean.Nearly a century has passed since the guns fell silent on the western front. But in the lands of the former Ottoman Empire, World War I smolders still. Sunnis and Shiites, Arabs and Jews, and other regional antagonists continue fighting over the last scraps of the Ottoman inheritance. As we seek to make sense of these conflicts, McMeekin's powerful exposé of Russia's aims in the First World War will illuminate our understanding of the twentieth century. 001479049 538__ $$aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. 001479049 546__ $$aIn English. 001479049 5880_ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. 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