Imperial Apocalypse
The Great War and the Destruction of the Russian Empire
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8090781 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joshua A Sanborn (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Pages | 287 |
| Publication date | 2014-09-11 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Imperial apocalypse (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199642052.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W4238436876 |
| Open Library | OL27170958M |
| ISBN | 9780199642052 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 33 |
The volume opens by laying out the theoretical relationship between state failure, social collapse, and decolonization, and then moves chronologically from the Balkan Wars of 1912-13 through the fierce battles and massive human dislocations of 1914-16 to the final collapse of the empire in the midst of revolution in 1917-18. 'Imperial apocalypse' is the first major study which treats the demise of the Russian Empire as part of the twentieth-century phenomenon of modern decolonization, and provides a readable account of military activity and political change throughout this turbulent period of war and revolution. Sanborn argues that the sudden rise of groups seeking national self-determination in the borderlands of the empire was the consequence of state failure, not its cause. At the same time, he shows how the destruction of state institutions and the spread of violence from the front to the rear led to a collapse of traditional social bonds and the emergence of a new, more dangerous, and more militant political atmosphere
Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Japanese History and Culture · Political Theology and Sovereignty · 1914-1918 · 1917-1921 · 1917-1991 · 20th century · Civil War · History · Imperialism · politics and government · revolution · Russia · Soviet Union · World War
Rights and Empires
Combating smuggling in post-revolutionary Russia
Spy mania and state security
Political Survival and Sovereignty in International Relations
The Emergence of New States in Eastern Europe in 1918—Lessons for All of Europe
Riempire le «pagine bianche». Nuovi interrogativi e nuove risposte sulla rivoluzione russa
Ten Months that No Longer Shake the World? The Centenary of the Russian Revolution and Beyond
Savages’ and ‘exploiters’
Contested minorities in the ‘New Europe’
Ispanka
Yakut autonomy
Beyond the European stage of 14-18; The other Great War in the Muslim world
Violence by Other Means
The Politics of National History
State Building Under Occupation. Pavlo Skoropadsky’s Hetmanate in 1918
Sex on the Front
Beyond National Narratives? Centenary Histories, the First World War and the Armenian Genocide Armenian Genocide
Coming to Terms With Russian History
The Logistical Significance of the Turkish Straits, Russo–Ottoman War and Gallipoli Campaign in Imperial Russia’s Great War, 1914–1917
Introductionthe Russian Revolution at 100
Rebellion and Resistance in French Indochina in the First World War
Charlie's War
ARA relief campaign in the Volga region, Jewish anthropometric statistics, and the scientific promise of integration
The Great War experiences of Lithuanians
Through the Dark Matter
Identity, Contingency, and Interaction
Thor's hammer
War as the catalyst of nationalism, or, the demise of the Habsburg, Romanov and Ottoman empires
Tsarist Russia at War
The Great Socialist Experiment? The Soviet State in its International Context
Slutsk in 1920
Imperial Incarcerations
The End of Everything? Pogroms in Wars and Revolutions
| Unique citing works | 33 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2026 (12) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 33 |