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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Veröffentlicht: Toronto; Buffalo; London : University of Toronto Press, [2017]
Umfang: xviii, 301 Seiten, 2 ungezählte Seiten Bildtafeln : Illustrationen, Karten
Format: Buch
Sprache: Englisch
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Andere Ausgaben: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe: Chernev, Borislav. Twilight of Empire. - Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2017. - 1 online resource (261 pages)
ISBN: 9781487501495
Rezension/en: --Oou--Blobaum, Robert [Tp1]. [Chernev, Borislav: Twilight of Empire], 2017. - DOI 10.1017/S0008938917000966
--Oou--Kovrig, Bennett [Tnx]. [Review Essay], 2018
--Oou--Remy, Johannes
--Oou--Fahey, John [Tnx]. [Chernev, Borislav: Twilight of Empire], 2018
--Oou--Böhler, Jochen
--Oou--Alston, Charlotte
--Oou--Main, Steven J. [Tnx]. [Borislav Chernev: Twilight of Empire], 2019
--Oou--Mick, Christoph
Zusammenfassung: 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