Author: Andrew Rossos
Publisher:
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 9781487580155
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume presents an objective diplomatic history focused on five crucial years in the relations between Russia and the Balkan states from the Annexation Crisis of 1908-9 to the outbreak of the First World War.
Author: Andrew Rossos
Publisher:
Published:
Total Pages: 327
ISBN-13: 9780608168012
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Barbara Jelavich
Publisher:
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 291
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the century between 1806 and 1914 tsarist Russia was drawn into five wars due to its deep involvement, based on treaty rights and established traditions, in Balkan affairs. This book examines the reason for the Russian involvement in the Balkan peninsula and attempts to explain at least partially the connection that drew the Russian government into entanglements that were not only dangerous to its great power interests, but that were difficult to control. The wars, waged at a high human and economic cost, limited the resources that could be spent on internal development and, in particular when they ended in defeat, led to domestic unrest and after 1856 and 1917 to drastic internal change.
Author: Alastair Kocho-Williams
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-01-04
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 1136157476
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Russia has long been a major player in the international relations arena, but only by examining the whole century can Russian foreign policy be properly understood, and the key questions as to the impact of war, of revolution, of collapse, the emergence of the Cold War and Russia’s post-Soviet development be addressed. Surveying the whole of the twentieth century in an accessible and clear manner Russia’s International Relations in the Twentieth Century provides an overview and narrative, with analysis, that will serve as an introduction and resource for students of Russian foreign policy in the period, and those who seek to understand the development of modern Russia in an international context. The volume includes: an analysis of the major themes which surrounded Russia’s position in world affairs as one of the European Great Powers before the First World War the impact of Revolution and the emergence of Soviet foreign policy with its dual aims of normalization and world revolution the changes wrought to the international order by the rise of Nazi Germany and by the Second World War the origins and development of the Cold War the end of the Cold War and the Soviet collapse how Russia has rebuilt itself as an international power in the post-Soviet era. An essential resource for students of Russian history and International policy.
Author: Barbara Jelavich
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004-03-11
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780521522502
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book examines the reason for the Russian involvement in the Balkan peninsula.
Author: Hugh Ragsdale
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1993-10-29
Total Pages: 484
ISBN-13: 9780521442299
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Imperial Russian Foreign Policy aims to demythologise a field hitherto dominated by suspicions of diabolical cunning, inscrutable motives, and international plots using unseen forces of the gigantic, fear-inspiring empire of the tsar. The contributors, leading historians from both Russia and the West, examine Imperial foreign policy from its origins to the October Revolution, revealing a policy that, as in other countries, had a complex of motives - commerce, nationalism, the interests of various social groups - but an unusual origin, coming almost exclusively from the entourage of the tsar. The work is based largely on original research in Soviet archives, which only became possible after Soviet glasnost.
Author: David MacLaren McDonald
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780674922396
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In 1904 a small, distant war brought Russia to the brink of internal collapse - and yet within ten years the country embroiled itself in an incomparably larger conflict close to home. How the war with Japan and its aftermath actually steered Russia toward such an unlikely, fateful decision is the subject of David McDonald's book, an analysis of Russian foreign policy on the eve of World War I.
Author: T. G. Otte
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-09-29
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 1139501402
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →With this pioneering approach to the study of international history, T. G. Otte reconstructs the underlying principles, élite perceptions and 'unspoken assumptions' that shaped British foreign policy between the death of Palmerston and the outbreak of the First World War. Grounded in a wide range of public and private archival sources, and drawing on sociological insights, The Foreign Office Mind presents a comprehensive analysis of the foreign service as a 'knowledge-based organization', rooted in the social and educational background of the diplomatic élite and the broader political, social and cultural fabric of Victorian and Edwardian Britain. The book charts how the collective mindset of successive generations of professional diplomats evolved, and reacted to and shaped changes in international relations during the second half of the nineteenth century, including the balance of power and arms races, the origins of appeasement and the causes of the First World War.
Author: David Longley
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-07-30
Total Pages: 536
ISBN-13: 1317882202
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is the first book of its kind to draw together information on the major events in Russian history from 1695 to 1917 - covering the eventful period from the accession of Peter the Great to the fall of Nicholas II. Not only is a vast amount of material on key events and topics brought together, but the book also contains fascinating background material to convey the reality of life in the period.