The Russian Origins of the First World War

By Sean McMeekin and McMeekin

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674062108
• ISBN13: 9780674062108
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.5"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary