March 1917: On the Brink of War and Revolution - Softcover

Englund, Will

 
9780393355673: March 1917: On the Brink of War and Revolution
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0393355675 ISBN 13: 9780393355673
Verlag: WW Norton & Co, 2018

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"We are provincials no longer", said Woodrow Wilson on 5 March 1917, at his second inaugural. He spoke on the eve of America’s entrance into the First World War, as Russia teetered between autocracy and democracy. Just ten days after Wilson’s declaration, Tsar Nicholas II abdicated the throne, ending a three-centuries-long dynasty and ushering in the false dawn of a democratic Russia. Wilson asked Congress to declare war against Germany a few short weeks later, asserting the United States’s new role as a global power and its commitment to spreading American ideals abroad.

Will Englund draws on a wealth of contemporary diaries, memoirs and newspaper accounts to add texture and personal detail to the story of that month. March 1917 celebrates the dreams of warriors, pacifists, revolutionaries and reactionaries, even as it demonstrates how their successes and failures constitute the origin story of the complex world we inhabit a century later.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Pulitzer, Polk, and Overseas Press Club Award–winning journalist Will Englund was a recent Moscow correspondent for The Washington Post and has spent a total of twelve years reporting from Russia. He now lives in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Verlag
WW Norton & Co
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0393355675
ISBN 13 
9780393355673
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
416
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