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  Book Title: The Russian
Origins of the First World War	 	
  Book Author: Sean McMeekin (Author)

   Paperback: 344 pages
   Publisher: Belknap Press; Reprint edition (April 8, 2013)
  
Language: English
  ISBN13: 9780674062108
  ISBN10: 0674062108
  
  Book
Description
  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.
  
  Reviews
  This book should forever change the ways we
have understood the role of Russia in the First World War. (Michael S. Neiberg, author of
Dance of the Furies: Europe and the Outbreak of World War I)
  
  A bold reinterpretation of the
Russian Empire's entry into the First World War. McMeekin argues that Russia believed a European war to be in its
interest, that it sought to humiliate Vienna, and that it hoped to conquer Constantinople and the Ottoman Straits. (Mustafa Aksakal, author of The Ottoman Road to War in 1914)
  
  The Russian
Origins of the First World War is a polemic in the best sense. Written in a lively and engaging style, it should provoke
a much-needed debate on Russia's role in the Great War. (Michael Reynolds, author of
Shattering Empires: The Clash and Collapse of the Ottoman and Russian Empires, 1908-1918)
  
 
Going against a century of received wisdom, Bilkent University professor McMeekin offers a dramatic new interpretation
of WWI...Rifling the archives, analyzing battle plans, and sifting through the machinations of high diplomacy, McMeekin
reveals the grand ambitions of czarist Russia, which wanted control of the Black Sea straits to guarantee all-weather
access to foreign markets. Maneuvering France and England into a war against Germany presented the best chance to
acquire this longed-for prize. No empire had more to gain from the coming conflict, and none pushed harder to ensure its
arrival. Once unleashed, however, the conflagration leapt out of control, and imperial Russia herself ranked among its
countless victims. (Publishers Weekly 2011-09-26)
  
  Casting a
contrarian eye on the first major conflict of the twentieth century, Sean McMeekin finds the roots of WWI inside Russia,
whose leaders deliberately sought--for their own ends--to expand a brawl that the Germans wanted to keep local. The
author tracks the fallout of these antique plots right down to the present geopolitical landscape. (Barnes & Noble Review 2012-01-13)
  
  An entirely new take on the
origins of World War I comes as a surprise. If war guilt is to be assigned, this book argues, it should go not only (or
even primarily) to Germany--the long-accepted culprit--but also to Russia...Bold reading between the lines of
history. (Robert Legvold Foreign Affairs 2012-01-01)
  
  As Sean
McMeekin argues in this bold and brilliant revisionist study, Russia was as much to blame as Germany for the outbreak of
the war. Using a wide range of archival sources, including long-neglected tsarist documents, he argues that the Russians
had ambitions of their own (the dismantling of the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman empires, no less) and that they were
ready for a war once they had secured a favorable alliance with the British and the French. (Orlando Figes Sunday Times 2012-01-01)
  
  The book is a refreshing
challenge to longstanding assumptions and shifted perspectives are always good. (Miriam Cosic
The Australian 2012-03-03)
  
  About the Author
 
Sean McMeekin is Assistant Professor of History at Koç University in Istanbul,
Turkey.  						

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