LEADER 03316nam 22005655 450 001 9910793089503321 005 20230205051340.0 010 $a1-4875-1335-6 010 $a1-4875-1334-8 024 7 $a10.3138/9781487513344 035 $a(CKB)3710000001390964 035 $a(DE-B1597)498549 035 $a(OCoLC)1054879664 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781487513344 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4863197 035 $a(OCoLC)987792389 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_107465 035 $a(PPN)226266001 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001390964 100 $a20180829d2018 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aTwilight of Empire $eThe Brest-Litovsk Conference and the Remaking of East-Central Europe, 1917?1918 /$fBorislav Chernev 210 1$aToronto : $cUniversity of Toronto Press, $d[2018] 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource 311 $a1-4875-2449-8 311 $a1-4875-0149-8 327 $aIntroduction: 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. 330 8 $aTwilight 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 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. 606 $aWorld War, 1914-1918$xPeace 606 $aWorld War, 1914-1918$zEurope, Central 606 $aWorld War, 1914-1918$zEurope, Eastern 607 $aEurope, Central$2fast 607 $aEurope, Eastern$2fast 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aWorld War, 1914-1918$xPeace. 615 0$aWorld War, 1914-1918 615 0$aWorld War, 1914-1918 676 $a940.5 700 $aChernev$b Borislav, $01257266 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910793089503321 996 $aTwilight of Empire$92913713 997 $aUNINA