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History of Germany and Austria --- History of Southern Europe --- anno 1910-1919 --- anno 1900-1909 --- Iraq --- Turkey --- JIHAD -- 930.3 --- FOREIGN RELATIONS -- 930.3 --- GEOPOLITICS -- 930.3 --- OTTOMAN EMPIRE -- 930.3 --- GERMANY -- 930.3
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The catastrophe of the First World War, and the destruction, revolution, and enduring hostilities it wrought, make the issue of its origins a perennial puzzle. Since World War II, Germany has been viewed as the primary culprit. Now, in a major reinterpretation of the conflict, Sean McMeekin rejects the standard notions of the war's beginning as either a Germano-Austrian preemptive strike or a "tragedy of miscalculation." Instead, he proposes that the key to the outbreak of violence lies in St. Petersburg.It was Russian statesmen who unleashed the war through conscious policy decisions based on imperial ambitions in the Near East. Unlike their civilian counterparts in Berlin, who would have preferred to localize the Austro-Serbian conflict, Russian leaders desired a more general war so long as British participation was assured. The war of 1914 was launched at a propitious moment for harnessing the might of Britain and France to neutralize the German threat to Russia's goal: partitioning the Ottoman Empire to ensure control of the Straits between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean.Nearly a century has passed since the guns fell silent on the western front. But in the lands of the former Ottoman Empire, World War I smolders still. Sunnis and Shiites, Arabs and Jews, and other regional antagonists continue fighting over the last scraps of the Ottoman inheritance. As we seek to make sense of these conflicts, McMeekin's powerful exposé of Russia's aims in the First World War will illuminate our understanding of the twentieth century.
HISTORY --- Military / World War I --- World War, 1914-1918 --- Imperialism --- History & Archaeology --- History - General --- Causes --- History --- Campaigns --- Causes. --- Russia --- Foreign relations --- Soviet Union
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Historians have never resolved a central mystery of the Russian Revolution: How did the Bolsheviks, despite facing a world of enemies and leaving nothing but economic ruin in their path, manage to stay in power through five long years of civil war? In this penetrating book, Sean McMeekin draws on previously undiscovered materials from the Soviet Ministry of Finance and other European and American archives to expose some of the darkest secrets of Russia's early days of communism. Building on one archival revelation after another, the author reveals how the Bolsheviks financed their aggression through astonishingly extensive thievery. Their looting included everything from the cash savings of private citizens to gold, silver, diamonds, jewelry, icons, antiques, and artwork. By tracking illicit Soviet financial transactions across Europe, McMeekin shows how Lenin's regime accomplished history's greatest heist between 1917 and 1922 and turned centuries of accumulated wealth into the sinews of class war. McMeekin also names names, introducing for the first time the compliant bankers, lawyers, and middlemen who, for a price, helped the Bolsheviks launder their loot, impoverish Russia, and impose their brutal will on millions.
Finance, Public --- Pillage --- History. --- Soviet Union --- Politics and government --- Looting --- Plundering --- Cameralistics --- Public finance --- Sack (Pillage) --- Military offenses --- Robbery --- War crimes --- Currency question --- Public finances
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Finance, Public --- Pillage --- Looting --- Plundering --- Sack (Pillage) --- Military offenses --- Robbery --- War crimes --- Cameralistics --- Public finance --- Public finances --- Currency question --- History --- Soviet Union --- Politics and government
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Willy Münzenberg-an Old Bolshevik who was also a self-promoting tycoon-became one of the most influential Communist operatives in Europe between the World Wars. He created a variety of front groups that recruited well-known political and cultural figures to work on behalf of the Soviet Union and its causes, and he ran an international media empire that churned out enormous amounts of propaganda and raised money for Communist concerns. Sean McMeekin tells Münzenberg's extraordinary story, arguing persuasively that his financial chicanery and cynical propaganda efforts weakened the non-Communist left, enraged the right, and helped feed a cycle that culminated in Nazism.Drawing extensively on recently opened Moscow archives, McMeekin describes how Münzenberg parlayed his friendship with Lenin into a personal fortune and how Münzenberg's mysterious financial manipulations outraged Social Democrats and lent rhetorical ammunition to the Nazis. His book sheds new light on Comintern finances, propaganda strategy, the use of front organizations to infiltrate non-Communist circles, and the breakdown of democracy in the Weimar Republic. It is also an engrossing tale of a Communist con man whose name once aroused fear, loathing, and admiration around the world.
Communists --- Propaganda, Communist --- Communism --- Bolshevism --- Communist movements --- Leninism --- Maoism --- Marxism --- Trotskyism --- Collectivism --- Totalitarianism --- Post-communism --- Socialism --- Village communities --- Communist propaganda --- Propaganda, Anti-American --- History. --- History --- Münzenberg, Willi. --- Mi︠u︡ntsenberg, V. --- Myuntsenberugu, Wīrī --- Willi, M.
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"Between 1911 and 1923, a series of wars--chief among them World War I--would engulf the Ottoman Empire and its successor states. It is a story we think we know well, but as Sean McMeekin shows us in this revelatory new history, we know far less than we think. Drawing from his years of ground-breaking research in newly opened Ottoman and Russian archives, The Ottoman Endgame brings to light the entire strategic narrative that led to an unstable new order in postwar Middle East--much of which is still felt today"--
Politique et gouvernement --- World War, 1914-1918 --- Campaigns --- Empire ottoman --- Turkey --- History --- Middle East --- Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918 --- Politics and government
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Geopolitics --- Jihad. --- World War, 1914-1918 --- World War, 1914-1918 --- History. --- Germany --- Germany --- Turkey --- Foreign relations --- Foreign relations --- Foreign relations
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History of Eastern Europe --- anno 1910-1919 --- anno 1920-1929 --- Russia
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