Russia's First World War

A Social and Economic History
1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-582-32818-1
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 340 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 518 g

The story of Russia’s First World War remains largely unknown, neglected by historians who have been more interested in the grand drama that unfolded in 1917. In Russia’s First World War: A Social and Economic History Peter Gatrell shows that war is itself ‘revolutionary’ – rupturing established social and economic ties, but also creating new social and economic relationships, affiliations, practices and opportunities.

Russia’s First World War brings together the findings of Russian and non-Russian historians, and draws upon fresh research. It turns the spotlight on what Churchill called the ‘unknown war’, providing an authoritative account that finally does justice to the impact of war on Russia’s home front

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gatrell, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Geschichte der VWL
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Dedication

Contents

List of tables and maps

Preface

Introduction

1. The front line, 1914-1916

2. ‘Educated society' and the Russian elite

3. Narod: plebeian society during the war

4. Tsarist authority in question, 1915-1916

5. Mobilising industry: Russia's war economy at full stretch

6. Paying for the war, Russian style

7. Feeding Russia: food supply as Achilles' heel

8. Economic nationalism and the mobilisation of ethnicity in the 'great patriotic war'

9. Hierarchy subverted: the February Revolution and the Provisional Government

10. Economic meltdown and revolutionary objectives: from European war to Civil War, 1917-1918

11. Russia's First World War: an overview

Über Autor(innen)

Peter Gatrell is Professor of Economic History at the University of Manchester. He has written extensively on Russia, including (with Nick Baron) Homelands: W ar, Population and Statehood in Eastern Europe and Russia, 1918-1924 (2004) and the prize-winning book, A Whole Empire Walking: Refugees in Russia during World W ar I (1999).