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Autore |
Chernev Borislav |
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Twilight of Empire : The Brest-Litovsk Conference and the Remaking of East-Central Europe, 1917–1918 / / Borislav Chernev |
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Toronto : , : University of Toronto Press, , [2018] |
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©2017 |
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1-4875-1335-6 |
1-4875-1334-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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World War, 1914-1918 - Peace |
World War, 1914-1918 - Europe, Central |
World War, 1914-1918 - Europe, Eastern |
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Europe, Central |
Europe, Eastern |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction: a forgotten peace -- Ostpolitik meets world revolution -- Peacemaking and self-determination at Brest-Litovsk -- The Great January Strike as a prelude to revolution in Austria -- The Brest-Litovsk system and modern Ukrainian statehood -- Brest-Litovsk and the elusive Bulgarian "dream of Byzantium" -- The second treaty of Brest-Litovsk and after -- Conclusion: Brest-Litovsk and Europe's twentieth century. |
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Twilight of Empire is the first book in English to examine the Brest-Litovsk Peace Conference during the later stages of World War I with the use of extensive archival sources. Two separate peace treaties were signed at Brest-Litovsk -- the first between the Central Powers and Ukraine and the second between the Central Powers and Bolshevik Russia. Borislav Chernev, through an insightful and in-depth analysis of primary sources and archival material, argues that although its duration was short lived, the Brest-Litovsk settlement significantly affected the post-Imperial transformation of East Central Europe. The conference |
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became a focal point for the interrelated processes of peacemaking, revolution, imperial collapse, and nation-state creation in the multi-ethnic, entangled spaces of East Central Europe. Chernev's analysis expands beyond the traditional focus on the German-Russian relationship, paying special attention to the policies of Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and Ukraine. The transformations initiated by the Brest-Litovsk conferences ushered in the twilight of empire as the Habsburg, Hohenzollern, and Ottoman Empires all shared the fate of their Romanov counterpart at the end of World War I. |
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