Twilight of empire
| Titel: | Twilight of empire : the Brest-Litovsk Conference and the remaking of East-Central Europe, 1917-1918 / Borislav Chernev |
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| Ausgabe: | Reprinted in paperback |
| Veröffentlicht: | Toronto; Buffalo; London : University of Toronto Press, [2019] |
| Umfang: | xviii, 301 Seiten : Illustrationen, Karten |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Hochschulschrift: | Dissertation, American University of Washington, DC, 2012 |
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| ISBN: | 9781487524494 ; 9781487501495 |
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Originally published in hardcover in 2017 |
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| Rezension/en: | --Oou--Hausmann, Guido |
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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 |
