University Press of Kansas, Date: 2015-04-10. Hardcover. Used: Good. University Press of Kansas ISBN 0700620958 9780700620951 [US]

ISBN10: 0700620958, ISBN13: 9780700620951, [publisher: University Press Of Kansas] Hardcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - A full century later, our picture of World War I remains one of wholesale, pointless slaughter in the trenches of the Western front. Expanding our focus to the Eastern front, as David R. Stone does in this masterly work, fundamentally alters--and clarifies--that picture. A thorough, and thoroughly readable, history of the Russian front during the First World War, this book corrects widespread misperceptions of the Russian Army and the war in the east even as it deepens and extends our understanding of the broader conflict.Of the four empires at war by the end of 1914-the Austro-Hungarian, Ottoman, German, and Russian--none survived. But specific political, social, and economic weaknesses shaped the way Russia collapsed and returned as a radically new Soviet regime. It is this context that Stone's work provides, that gives readers a more judicious view of Russia's war on the home front as well as on the front lines. One key and fateful difference in the Russian experience emerges here: its failure to systematically and comprehensively reorganize its society for war, while the three westernmost powers embarked on programs of total mobilization.Context is also vital to understanding the particular rhythm of the war in the east. Drawing on recent and newly available scholarship in Russian and in English, ...
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Hardback. New. Despite its critical role in the course and outcomes of World War I the Eastern Front is poorly understood, or it's dismissed as a monotonous story of Russian incompetence and failure. In fact, there's a rich story of triumph and tragedy in Russia's experience of fighting in the First World War. ISBN 0700620958 9780700620951 [GB]

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ISBN10: 0700620958, ISBN13: 9780700620951, [publisher: University Press of Kansas] Hardcover Series: Modern War Studies. Num Pages: 368 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HBLW; HBWN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 160 x 30. Weight in Grams: 696. . 2015. 1St Edition. Hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
[Olney, MD, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2015]