Sean Mcmeekin
Biographic Data
| ID | 1123199 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sean Mcmeekin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sean |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcmeekin |
| SIGNATURE | MCMEEKIN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bard College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Bolsheviks and Britain during the Russian Revolution and Civil War, 1917-1924
The Red Millionaire
Willy Münzenberg an Old Bolshevik who was also a self-promoting tycoon became one of the most influential Communist operatives in Europe between the World Wars. He created a variety of front groups that recruited well-known political and cultural figures to work on behalf of the Soviet Union and its causes, and he ran an international media empire that churned out enormous amounts of propaganda and raised money for Communist concerns. Sean McMeek…
The Margins of Empire
The opening of Turkey's archives to foreign researchers, which began in the Turgut Özal era (c. 1983–89), although still incomplete, has been a great boon to historians of the Ottoman Empire, unleashing a wave of rich scholarship which has yet to recede. Previously obscure topics, such as the role of tribal Kurdish chieftains in helping the Sublime Porte rule (or mis-rule) the empire's southeastern borderlands, have been subjected for the first t…
Contingency and Catastrophe
Drawing analogies between the global political situation in 1914 and the present misses the point: From its outbreak to its conclusion, the Great War was defined by uncertainty and accident
Alastair Kocho-Williams. Russian and Soviet Diplomacy, 1900-39
Considering the importance of the subject, it is surprising that there have not been more studies of Russian diplomacy in the twentieth century. World War I cannot be understood without reference to late tsarist foreign policy, although one would never guess this from books that treat Russian diplomats as bit players in the drama of 1914. Soviet communism was conceived as a fundamental challenge to the world order, and yet most books on the revol…
The Islamic-Israelite World
This essay applies the concept of "fuzzy thinking" to geopolitics, using a curious turn of phrase in a 1914 policy paper ("the Islamic-Israelite world") to explore paradoxes of German strategy in World War I. To find the origins of this phrase, the article explores the language of prewar Orientalism, especially the potent German variety that was notoriously neglected by Edward Said in his 1979 study decrying Orientalism as the handmaiden of Europ…
Berlin-Baghdad Express
The Russian Origins of the First World War
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 t…
The Berlin-Baghdad Express
The modern Middle East was forged in the crucible of the First World War, but few know the full story of how war actually came to the region. As Sean McMeekin reveals in this startling reinterpretation of the war, it was neither the British nor the French but rather a small clique of Germans and Turks who thrust the Islamic world into the conflict for their own political, economic, and military ends. The Berlin-Baghdad Express tells the fascinati…
Treasures into Tractors
Stanley G. Payne, The Spanish Civil War, the Soviet Union, and Communism
The Red Millionaire
Willi Munzenberg—an Old Bolshevik who was also a self-promoting tycoon—became one of the most influential Communist operatives in Europe between the World Wars. He created a variety of front groups that recruited well-known political and cultural figures to work on behalf of the Soviet Union and its causes, and ran an international media empire which churned out enormous amounts of propaganda and raised money for Communist concerns. This book tel…
From Moscow to Vichy
‘From Moscow to Vichy’ chronicles the political trajectory of Jules Teulade, Albert Vassart and Henri Barbé, three French labour militants of modest origins who were rapidly whisked into the top ranks of the French Communist Party (PCF) in the early 1920s, but later fell out of favour with Moscow just as the PCF entered its halycon years in the mid-to-late 1930s. Each of them, though for different reasons, turned against their former Russian patr…
From Moscow to Vichy
‘From Moscow to Vichy’ chronicles the political trajectory of Jules Teulade, Albert Vassart and Henri Barbé, three French labour militants of modest origins who were rapidly whisked into the top ranks of the French Communist Party (PCF) in the early 1920s, but later fell out of favour with Moscow just as the PCF entered its halycon years in the mid-to-late 1930s. Each of them, though for different reasons, turned against their former Russian patr…
The Red Millionaire
Willi Munzenberg—an Old Bolshevik who was also a self-promoting tycoon—became one of the most influential Communist operatives in Europe between the World Wars. He created a variety of front groups that recruited well-known political and cultural figures to work on behalf of the Soviet Union and its causes, and ran an international media empire which churned out enormous amounts of propaganda and raised money for Communist concerns. This book tel…
Stanley G. Payne, The Spanish Civil War, the Soviet Union, and Communism
The Berlin-Baghdad Express
The modern Middle East was forged in the crucible of the First World War, but few know the full story of how war actually came to the region. As Sean McMeekin reveals in this startling reinterpretation of the war, it was neither the British nor the French but rather a small clique of Germans and Turks who thrust the Islamic world into the conflict for their own political, economic, and military ends. The Berlin-Baghdad Express tells the fascinati…
Treasures into Tractors
The Russian Origins of the First World War
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 t…
Berlin-Baghdad Express
Alastair Kocho-Williams. Russian and Soviet Diplomacy, 1900-39
Considering the importance of the subject, it is surprising that there have not been more studies of Russian diplomacy in the twentieth century. World War I cannot be understood without reference to late tsarist foreign policy, although one would never guess this from books that treat Russian diplomats as bit players in the drama of 1914. Soviet communism was conceived as a fundamental challenge to the world order, and yet most books on the revol…
The Islamic-Israelite World
This essay applies the concept of "fuzzy thinking" to geopolitics, using a curious turn of phrase in a 1914 policy paper ("the Islamic-Israelite world") to explore paradoxes of German strategy in World War I. To find the origins of this phrase, the article explores the language of prewar Orientalism, especially the potent German variety that was notoriously neglected by Edward Said in his 1979 study decrying Orientalism as the handmaiden of Europ…
Contingency and Catastrophe
Drawing analogies between the global political situation in 1914 and the present misses the point: From its outbreak to its conclusion, the Great War was defined by uncertainty and accident
The Margins of Empire
The opening of Turkey's archives to foreign researchers, which began in the Turgut Özal era (c. 1983–89), although still incomplete, has been a great boon to historians of the Ottoman Empire, unleashing a wave of rich scholarship which has yet to recede. Previously obscure topics, such as the role of tribal Kurdish chieftains in helping the Sublime Porte rule (or mis-rule) the empire's southeastern borderlands, have been subjected for the first t…
The Red Millionaire
Willy Münzenberg an Old Bolshevik who was also a self-promoting tycoon became one of the most influential Communist operatives in Europe between the World Wars. He created a variety of front groups that recruited well-known political and cultural figures to work on behalf of the Soviet Union and its causes, and he ran an international media empire that churned out enormous amounts of propaganda and raised money for Communist concerns. Sean McMeek…
The Bolsheviks and Britain during the Russian Revolution and Civil War, 1917-1924
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