The empire and nationalism at war
By: edited by Eric Lohr, Vera Tolz, Alexander Semyonov, Mark von Hagen
Series: Russia's great war and revolution -- v. 2
Publisher: Slavica Publishers
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Bloomington, Indiana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780893574253
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918; Political aspects; Diplomatic history; Imperialism; History; Nationalism; Military History; Politics and government
Description: "In this multiauthor collection historians examine the nature, ambitions, and limitations of empire and the role these played in the First World War. The volume further analyzes how and why the war facilitated the rise of national movements across Eastern Europe, bringing about the downfall of centuries-old monarchies and engendering the establishment of vulnerable successor states."--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Bringing empire back / Ronald Grigor Suny; title: The entangled Eastern Front in the First World War / Mark von Hagen; title: War of decolonization : the Russian Empire in the Great War / Joshua Sanborn; title: The role of the First World War in the competition between Ukrainian and All-Russian nationalism / Alexei I. Miller; title: War nationalism / Eric Lohr; title: Central Asia (1916/20) : a kaleidoscope of local revolutions and the building of the Bolshevik order / Marco Buttino; title: Nationalism and war in a contested borderland : the case of Russian Bessarabia (1914/17) / Andrei Cusco; title: Ukrainization and its contradictions in the context of the Brest-Litovsk system / Borislav Chernev; title: What Russian progressives expected from the war / Ilya V. Gerasimov; title: Postwar Russian Eurasianism's anticolonial critique of Eurocentrism and modernity / Sergey Glebov; title: Memories of the Great War and the Polish-Lithuanian conflict in Lithuania / Tomas Balkelis; title: Modern Russian memory of the Great War, 1914/20 / Vera Tolz.