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Autore: | Chernev Borislav |
Titolo: | Twilight of Empire : The Brest-Litovsk Conference and the Remaking of East-Central Europe, 1917–1918 / / Borislav Chernev |
Pubblicazione: | Toronto : , : University of Toronto Press, , [2018] |
©2017 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource |
Disciplina: | 940.5 |
Soggetto topico: | World War, 1914-1918 - Peace |
World War, 1914-1918 - Europe, Central | |
World War, 1914-1918 - Europe, Eastern | |
Soggetto geografico: | Europe, Central |
Europe, Eastern | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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 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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Twilight of Empire |
ISBN: | 1-4875-1335-6 |
1-4875-1334-8 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910793089503321 |
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