Russian Origins Of The First World War

Kropotkin, Petr Alekseevich, kniaz.' [Petra Kropotkina. Perevod pod redaktsiei avtora]. GOSUDARSTVO, EGO ROL' V ISTORII. N.D.

Covers show edgewear & are tape-repaired at spine. Internally Very Good & Solid. (R-1-1) 8vo; Zheneva [i.e. Geneva], Gruppa "Khlieb i volia," 1904. Paper Wrappers, 12mo, 75 pages. 17 cm. In Russian. This is the first separate appearance of Kropotkin's important essay on the state, and also its first appearance in his native Russian (The essay first appeared as a series of articles entitled "L'Etat: son role historique" in Les Temps nouveaux, December 19, 1896- July 3, 1897.) It was later translated and published in English as "The State: Its Historic Role" (London: Freedom Press, 1911). Kropotkin, in exile in Western Europe, "became the best-known propagandist in the international anarchist movement" and "participated in several attempts to direct anarchist propaganda into Russia ..Kropotkin was and remains the most widely read anarchist writer, and his version of anarchist theory was the most influential contribution to the anarchist movement in Russia and elsewhere " (Nicolas Walter in Shukman, 1988, pp. 334-335) OCLC lists 3 copies worldwide (Hoover, U of Kansas, Columbia). This is Alexander Granovsky's copy with his signature & bookplate. Granovsky was a leader of the Ukranian exile community in the US and was the founder, in 1941, of the Ukrainian Scientific Institute, which had a short life but was one of the forerunners of other efforts that followed World War II. He was a also a leader of the Organization for the Rebirth of Ukraine and a world famous entomologist, activist and poet as well. From the English Translation: "First of all, let us be agreed as to what we wish to include in the term the State. There is, of course, the German school which enjoys confusing "State" with "Society". The best German thinkers, and many among the French, are guilty of this confusion because they cannot conceive of society without a concentration of the State; and because of this anarchists are usually accused of wanting to ''destroy society'' and of advocating a return to ''the permanent war of each against all.'' Yet, to argue thus is to overlook altogether the advances made in the domain of history during the last thirty-odd years; it is to overlook the fact that humans lived in Societies for thousands of years before the State had been heard of; it is to forget that so far as Europe is concerned the State is of recent origin---it barely goes back to the sixteenth century; finally, it is to ignore that the most glorious periods in history are those in which civil liberties and communal life had not yet been destroyed by the State, and in which large numbers of people lived in communes and free federations. The State is only one of the forms adopted by society in the course of history. Why then make no distinction between what is permanent and what is accidental? Then again the "State" has also been confused with "Government". Since there can be no State without government, it has been sometimes said that what one must aim at is the absence of government and not the abolition of the State. However, it seems to me that in State and government we have two concepts of a different order. The State idea means something quite different from the idea of government. It not only includes the existence of a power situated above society, but also of a "territorial concentration" as well as the "concentration of many functions of the life of societies in the hands of a few". It carries with it some new relationships between members of society which did not exist before the establishment of the State. A whole mechanism of legislation and of policing has to be developed in order to subject some classes to the domination of others. This distinction, which at first sight might not be obvious, emerges especially when one studies the origins of the State. Indeed, there is only one way of really understanding the State, and that is to study its historic development, and this is what we will try to do." OCLC lists 3 copies worldwide (Hoover, Kansas, & Columbia). (P-6-56)

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Luger, Marion: Some Potential Origins of the First World War (1914-1918) GRIN VERLAG, September 2009, Besorgungstitel - vorauss. Lieferzeit 3-5 Tage. ISBN: 3640429397
Throughout World War I, almost 15 million people lost their lives; as one of its consequences, the Austrian-Hungarian, Russian and Turkish Empires fell apart, and the old internal and international order was for ever destroyed. Owing to the fact that the First World War marked the beginning of an entire new era, the investigation of its origins still remains a controversial historical issue. While some historians put the emphasis on the primacy of domestic policies and assert that internal pressures conditioned the decisions of the belligerent states, others maintain the concept of the 19th century German historical scientist Ranke, who stressed the importance of foreign affairs on the authorities' motivations leading to the 'Great War'. In this essay, however, I will firstly concentrate on the formal justifications of war declarations (section II). Thereupon, section III scrutinizes these official statements by considering the broader imperial and military framework. Furthermore, section IV attempts to reveal the origins of a system of alliances and rivalries among European nations, whereas section V surveys the impacts of these tensions on the thought process on the eve of World War I.

NEUBUCH! 2009. 28 S. 210 mm 210 mm x 148 mm x 2 mm; Akademische Schriftenreihe, Bd. V135041

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Vandana Joshi (ed.) Illustrator: NA: Themes in Modern European History: Social Movements and Cultural Currents 1789-1945, Orient BlackSwan 2010 ISBN: 9788125040583

New Softcover NA This bookis the first of the multi-volume series entitled Themes in Modern European History. This collection of essays offers a critical survey of European history between 1789 and 1945 and is essential reading for students and scholars of modern European history. The volume is divided into two sectionsaEUR"social movements and cultural currents. While the first section discusses events, representations, experiences, polities and societies of this period, the second section looks at the wider literary and artistic expressions. The first five chapters present a panoramic view of the French Revolution, the Russian Revolution, Italian Fascism, British Liberalism and Feminism, from their origins and focus on several key historical moments. The chapter on feminism evaluates all the others from the perspective of aEUR the excluded other half of humanityaEUR . The sixth (early modernism) and the seventh (later modernism) chapters address the fundamental question of when aEUR modernaEUR actually begins and go on to show how radical philosophical shifts affected the way in which many writers and artists viewed themselves and art in relation to society and how they manifested themselves in the paintings and literature of the period. The last chapter examines the transformation of popular culture from its identification in the nineteenth century as an element of class recognition into a generational, national and mass-cultural item after World War II. The annotated bibliographies at the end of each chapter are a student-friendly pedagogical aid. The section on European art is enhanced by the inclusion of colour reproductions of the originals discussed in the book. Printed Pages: 409. 5th or later edition

[SW: Themes in Modern European History: Social Movements and Cultural Currents 1789-1945Vandana Joshi (ed.)9788125040583]

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Seton-Watson, Hugh: Osteuropa zwischen den Kriegen 1918 - 1941. Aus dem Englischen von Peter Römer. Mit Vorworten des Verfassers. Mit einer Einführung des Verfassers. Mit einem Personenregister. Paderborn, Schöningh Verlag, 1948.
Seiten papierbedingt leicht gebräunt. Besitzername auf dem Vorsatz. Befriedigender Zustand. - George Hugh Nicholas Seton-Watson (London, England, 15 February 1916-Washington, DC, USA, 19 December 1984), was a British historian and political scientist specializing in Russia. Early lifeSeton-Watson was one of the two sons of Robert William Seton-Watson, the activist and historian. He was educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford, from where he graduated in 1938. War-time activitiesAfter working for the British Foreign Office in Belgrade and Bucharest at the start of the Second World War, Seton-Watson joined the British Special Operations Executive. Interned by the Italians after the fall of Yugoslavia to the Axis in 1941, Seton-Watson was repatriated to Britain, and later posted to the British special forces in Cairo, where he remained until 1944. In January 1944 he moved to Istanbul where he performed intelliggence activities among the refugees coming from the Balkans. [1] Academic careerSeton-Watson wrote most of his first major work, Eastern Europe between the Wars, 1918-1941 in Cape Town while on his way from Italy to Britain after the fall of Yugoslavia, finishing it in Cairo during the battle of El Alamein in 1942. In 1945 he was appointed praelector in politics at University College, Oxford. In 1951 he was appointed to the chair of Russian history at the University of London, where he remained until 1983, exercising a major influence over British and American understandings of Russia during the Cold War. WorkAfter publishing The Decline of Imperial Russia, 1855-1914 in 1952, Seton-Watson published his most famous work, The Russian Empire, 1801-1917 in 1967. This became the standard history of late imperial Russia for a generation. Seton-Watson's Nations and States: an Enquiry into the Origins of Nations and the Politics of Nationalism (1977) made a fundamental contribution to the study of nationalism, though later overshadowed by the success of Benedict Anderson's more theoretical Imagined Communities. Aus: en-wikipedia-Hugh_Seton-Watson

Deutsche Erstausgabe. 508 Seiten. 22 cm. Illustriertes Halbleinen.

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