Twilight of Empire : The Brest-Litovsk Conference and the Remaking of East-Central Europe, 1917–1918 / / Borislav Chernev
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| Autore: |
Chernev Borislav
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| Titolo: |
Twilight of Empire : The Brest-Litovsk Conference and the Remaking of East-Central Europe, 1917–1918 / / Borislav Chernev
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| 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 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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