Imperial apocalypse : the Great War and the destruction of the Russian Empire / Joshua A. Sanborn.
2015
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Title
Imperial apocalypse : the Great War and the destruction of the Russian Empire / Joshua A. Sanborn.
Author
Sanborn, Joshua A., author.
ISBN
9780198745686 (paperback)
0198745680 (paperback)
9780199642052 (hardcover)
0199642052 (hardcover)
0198745680 (paperback)
9780199642052 (hardcover)
0199642052 (hardcover)
Published
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Language
English
Description
xii, 287 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
Call Number
DK264.8 .S26 2015
Dewey Decimal Classification
940.347
Summary
Describes the collapse of the Russian Empire during World War One. Drawing material from nine different archives and hundreds of published sources, this study ties together state failure, military violence, and decolonization in a single story. The volume moves chronologically from the Balkan Wars of 1912-13 through the fierce battles and massive human dislocations of 1914-17 to the final collapse of the Russian Empire in the midst of revolution in 1917-18. Imperial Apocalypse is the first major study which treats the demise of the empire as part of the twentieth-century phenomenon of modern decolonization, and it provides an account of military activity and political change throughout this turbulent period of war and revolution.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-278) and index.
Series
Greater war.
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Table of Contents
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.
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.