Pen & Sword UK, 2014. — 232 p. Arranged in five sections, one for each year of the War, this superbly illustrated book covers the fluid fighting that took place on the Russian Front from August 1914. The author describes how each year saw dramatic developments, notably actions in Poland, Tannenberg, the Carpathian passes in 1914, the 1915 operations in Galicia and the Baltic...
Osprey Publishing, 2016. — 496 p. — (General Military) In "Russia's Last Gasp", Prit Buttar looks at one of the bloodiest campaigns launched in the history of warfare - the Brusilov Offensive, sometimes known as the June Advance. With British, French and German forces locked in a stalemate in the trenches of the Western Front, an attack was launched by the massed Russian armies...
Pen & Sword, 2014. — 220 p. For 100 years little attention has been paid to the Russian army that fought the Germans and the Austro-Hungarians in the First World War on the Eastern Front. Yet the Tsar's army played a critical part in the global conflict and was engaged in a sequence of shattering campaigns that were waged on a massive scale on several fronts across eastern...
London: Harrison and Sons, 1914. — 62 p. Russian Charge d’Affaires at Belgrade to Russian Minister for Foreign Affairs. Belgrade, July 10 (23), 1914. Russian Charge d’Affaires at Belgrade to Russian Minister for Foreign Affairs. Belgrade, July 10 (23), 1914 Note verbale personally presented by the Austro-Hungarian Ambassador at St. Retersburg to the Russian Minister for Foreign...
London: Harrison and Sons, 1914. — 62 p. Russian Charge d’Affaires at Belgrade to Russian Minister for Foreign Affairs. Belgrade, July 10 (23), 1914. Russian Charge d’Affaires at Belgrade to Russian Minister for Foreign Affairs. Belgrade, July 10 (23), 1914 Note verbale personally presented by the Austro-Hungarian Ambassador at St. Retersburg to the Russian Minister for Foreign...
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1940. — 874 p. — (The Hoover Library on War, Revolution, and Peace. Publication No. 15). The purpose of this book is to make available in English a collection of documents on the origin of the Third or Communist International. During the. decade before 1914, the groups which composed the Russian Social Democratic Labor party were in a...
Indiana University Press, 1999. — 318 + xviii p. — ISBN: 0-253-33644-9. Peter Gatrell is Professor of Economic History and Head of Department at the University of Manchester. He is author of The Tsarist Economy, 1850–1917 and Government, Industry, and Rearmament in Russia, 1900–1914. He has also contributed to the Critical Companion to the Russian Revolution, 1914–1921 and...
Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1995. - 227 pgs. War is always far more than just a military event, and the cultural effects of world war are massive. The Great War suffused Russian culture to an extraordinary degree. In this heavily illustrated book, Hubertus Jahn explores a variety of ways in which Russians expressed their patriotic fervor. He assembles...
Viking, 2015. — 448 p. — ISBN: 978-0-698-19561-1. "Lieven has a double gift: first, for harvesting details to convey the essence of an era and, second, for finding new, startling, and clarifying elements in familiar stories. This is history with a heartbeat, and it could not be more engrossing."—Foreign Affairs One of the world’s leading scholars offers a fresh interpretation...
Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2014. — 287 + xii p. — ISBN 978-0-19-964205-2. — (The Greater War). Preface. Sources for Maps. Introduction: Imperial Challenge. The Outbreak of War and the Transformation of the Borderlands. The Front Migrates. Remobilizing the Military: Combat Innovation, POWs, and Forced Labor. Remobilizing Society: Nurses, Doctors, and Social Control....
New York: Dutton&Co, 1918. — 227 c. Robert Scotland Liddell was a British reporter and photographer for The Sphere newspaper, who covered the events on the Russian front during the World War I. The book is a series of essays about the First World War by a correspondent for the Sphere newspaper. The Anchored Ship Early Summer On The Middle Front War Time Travelling In Russia The...
New York: Dutton&Co, 1918. — 227 c. Robert Scotland Liddell was a British reporter and photographer for The Sphere newspaper, who covered the events on the Russian front during the World War I. The book is a series of essays about the First World War by a correspondent for the Sphere newspaper. The Anchored Ship Early Summer On The Middle Front War Time Travelling In Russia The...
New York: Philosophical Library, 1956. -545 pgs. A study of the war aims pursued by Tsarist Russia and the Russian Provisional Government between 1914 and 1917. Suggests that one of the keys to Soviet imperialism in the 1940's was the revival by Stalin of these same war aims. Deals with the once controversial "secret treaties" of the Allies during the First World War. Based on...
New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1926. - 254 pgs. Dr. Stieve was on the staff of the German Foreign Office. This book is a selection of documents from the diplomatic correspondence of A. P. Isvolsky, Russian ambassador in Paris, from Stieve's four volume work Der diplomatische Schriftwechsel Iswolskis 1911-1914 . The majority of documents were taken from the collection published by...
University Press of Kansas, 2015. — 359 p. — ISBN: 978-0-7006-2095-1. 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,...
Penguin, 2004 Norman Stone's important book is the first authoritative account of the Russian Front to be published in the West. Churchill called the Eastern Front 'the unknown war' and there is still no Soviet official history of the army's role during the First World War. It was in the East, with Russia in turmoil, that many decisive engagements took place. Norman stone...
Penguin, 2004 Norman Stone's important book is the first authoritative account of the Russian Front to be published in the West. Churchill called the Eastern Front 'the unknown war' and there is still no Soviet official history of the army's role during the First World War. It was in the East, with Russia in turmoil, that many decisive engagements took place. Norman stone...
Penguin, 2004 Norman Stone's important book is the first authoritative account of the Russian Front to be published in the West. Churchill called the Eastern Front 'the unknown war' and there is still no Soviet official history of the army's role during the First World War. It was in the East, with Russia in turmoil, that many decisive engagements took place. Norman stone...
Princeton University Press, 1983. — 576 p. — ISBN10: 0691053499 ; ISBN13: 978-0691053493. The Russian gentry of the 19th century produced a strangely long list of ‘names’. Can you imagine the English nobility, in that or any other era, producing Tolstoys or Turgenevs, Mussorgskys or Herzens? The contrast between actual and would-be, in 19th-century Russia, was vast, and was to...
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1916. — 180 c. The Move on Warsaw via Galicia. The Readjustment in Galicia. Summation of the Galician Campaign. The July Movement on Warsaw. From the South. The Drive on the Chelm-Lublin Line. Fighting in the North. The Drive on the Narew Line. The Anguish of Warsaw. The Last Straw. The Fall of Warsaw. Warsaw, the German Zenith. The...
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1916. — 180 c. The Move on Warsaw via Galicia. The Readjustment in Galicia. Summation of the Galician Campaign. The July Movement on Warsaw. From the South. The Drive on the Chelm-Lublin Line. Fighting in the North. The Drive on the Narew Line. The Anguish of Warsaw. The Last Straw. The Fall of Warsaw. Warsaw, the German Zenith. The...
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