| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 301 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Brest-Litovsk Peace Conference (1917-1918) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n92001153
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Brest-Litovsk Peace Conference fast |
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Treaties of Brest-Litovsk (1918) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n92001171
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Treaties of Brest-Litovsk (1918) fast |
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Peace.
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Europe, Eastern
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Europe, Central
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
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HISTORY / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union
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Peace
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Central Europe
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Eastern Europe
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781487513344 |
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1487513348 |
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