1917 was a year of calamitous events, and one of pivotal importance in the development of the First World War. In 1917: War, Peace, and Revolution, leading historian of World War One, David Stevenson, examines this crucial year in context and illuminates the century that followed. He shows how in this one year the war was transformed, but also what drove the conflict onwards and how it continued to escalate. Two developments in particular—the Russian Revolution and American intervention—had worldwide repercussions. Offering a close examination of the key decisions, Stevenson considers Germany's campaign of 'unrestricted' submarine warfare, America's declaration of war in response, and Britain's frustration of German strategy by adopting the convoy system, as well as why (paradoxically) the military and political stalemate in Europe persisted. Focusing on the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II, on the disastrous spring offensive that plunged the French army into mutiny, on the summer attacks that undermined the moderate Provisional Government in Russia and exposed Italy to national humiliation at Caporetto, and on the British decision for the ill-fated Third Battle of Ypres (Passchendaele), 1917 offers a truly international understanding of events. The failed attempts to end the war by negotiation further clarify the underlying forces that kept it going. David Stevenson also analyses the global consequences of the year's developments, showing how countries such as Brazil and China joined the belligerents, Britain offered 'responsible government' to India, and the Allies promised a Jewish national home in Palestine. Blending political and military history, and moving from capital to capital and between the cabinet chamber and the battle front, the book highlights the often tumultuous debates through which leaders entered and escalated the war, and the paradox that continued fighting could be justified as the shortest road towards regaining peace.
The publication of Book 1 of March 1917 (in 2017) and Book 2 (in 2019) has begun to rectify this situation. The action of Book 3 (out of four) is set during March 16–22, 1917.
Princess Ozma is missing! When Dorothy awakens one morning to discover that the beloved ruler of the Land of Oz has disappeared, all of the Emerald City's most celebrated citizens...
'Mezhraionka, 1911–1917 gg.', pr, 24, 2:109–39. Ivanov, Aleksandr 1924, 'Volneniev 1916 godu v181-om Zap. Pekh.Polku', kl, 10, 1: 171–3. Ivanov, N.I. 1917, 'Pis'ma generala N.I. Ivanova A.I. Guchkovu', Russkiiinvalid, 23 March.
This fascinating examination considers the dreams of that year’s warriors, pacifists, activists, revolutionaries, and reactionaries—from Czar Nicholas II to Woodrow Wilson, from Theodore Roosevelt to the fiery congresswoman Jeannette ...
Esme Margaret Jackson (1878–1944) married Arthur Reuben Stannard (c.1890–1980) in July 1910 at St Paul's Church, Elk Lake, Nipissing, Ontario, Canada. She died at Victoria and he at Campbell River, both in British Columbia.
The Cossackscame third with 3,084, andthe Bolshevikscould only muster 2,184 in fourth place (Rosenberg, 1969:152, quoting Rostóvskaya rech' 11, 12, 13 July 1917). The election in Aleksandróvka to the east of Rostóv was held later than ...
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F. Scott Fitzgerald neglected his studies at school and college because he was occupied with his literary apprenticeship.
For generations in the West, Cold War animosity blocked dispassionate accounts of the Russian Revolution.