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A most interesting question.
What would have happened to Russia if the Great War had not come? Or if Russia had somehow managed to stay out? Would there have been a revolution of 1917? Without the war and the collapse of the old regime, would the Bolsheviks, the revolutionary splinter group, ever have been able to seize power and impose their rigid and doctrinaire politics? We will never know but it is not difficult to imagine a different, less bloody and less wasteful path for Russia into the modern age.
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Unintended consequences we are still living and struggling with to this day.
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Do you know that MacMillan is universally castigated for failing to understand the politics leading up to WWI, therefore has a bad premise for all her conclusions? How interesting ...
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Do you know that on the entire Internet, these three threads are the only reference to that "book"? How interesting ...
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Really.....No results found for "The War That Ended War: The Road to 1914" by Margaret Macmillan.
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He spelled her name wrong -- three times. And got the title wrong once. That's what I was going off of, but I've now found it, and the reason the book is garbage.
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thisnumbersdisconnected said:
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Do you know that MacMillan is universally castigated for failing to understand the politics leading up to WWI, therefore has a bad premise for all her conclusions? How interesting ...
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Please enlighten us on who castigated her. Is the following the type
of castigation you speak of?
The War that Ended Peace by Margaret MacMillan, one of the most recognized and respected historians in the English-speaking world, comes with much expectation. Her 2003 worldwide bestseller, Paris 1919, won many distinguished awards and was one of the handful of non-fiction books in a given year that become must-reads for everyone, from the intelligentsia to the historically minded general reader. In vivid word portraits and deft turns of phrase, MacMillan captured the complex diplomatic machinations in the aftermath of the Great War as the victors at the 1919 Peace Conference at Versailles sought to punish Germany and its allies, while remaking the modern world in ways that affect us still.http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts...the-great-wars-inevitability/article15347392/ Click to expand...
As we approach the 100-year anniversary of that conflict, the lay reader would do well to start a study of that countdown with Ms. MacMillan’s book. It starts earlier, in 1900, and walks us through the slow, steady but far from inevitable deterioration in the reasoning of a handful of decision-makers as each step taken led everyone else to opt for military solutions to what were still political problems.
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Your title is wrong. The correct title is The War That Ended Peace. Try searching the correct title on the Internet.
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It's your title, ripped from your O/P.