Central and Eastern Europe in the age of the First World War: revolution, counter‑revolution, containment
Before the First World War, Central and Eastern Europe was a defined historical region dominated by the conservative empires: Germany, Russia, and Austria-Hungary. However, Pan-Slavism, as a revolutionary ideology that emerged in the mid-19th century, became an instrument of Russian and Serbian fore...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2025
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War in Ukraine
Year: 2025, Pages: 44-57 |
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Volltext (kostenfrei) |
| Summary: | Before the First World War, Central and Eastern Europe was a defined historical region dominated by the conservative empires: Germany, Russia, and Austria-Hungary. However, Pan-Slavism, as a revolutionary ideology that emerged in the mid-19th century, became an instrument of Russian and Serbian foreign policy aimed at the disintegration of Austria-Hungary. Hence, the Austro-Hungarian military actions against Serbia as a response to the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand should be considered an external counter-revolution. Meanwhile, Russia, supporting Serbia, became an advocate of regicide. As such, it violated the principle of monarchical solidarity and provoked the First World War, whereas the German concept of Mitteleuropa emerged as a containment to Pan-Slavism, which, after the end of the First World War, was replaced by a Cordon Sanitaire against Bolshevism as a new challenge to the world order and the new revolutionary ideology. |
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| ISBN: | 9783402250976 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: War in Ukraine. Theological, Ethical and Historical Reflections (Veranstaltung : 2023 : Wien), War in Ukraine
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.17438/978-3-402-25103-4 |
