War and Peace during Russia’s Great War

Session Submission Type: Panel

Brief Description

The three papers in this panel address Russia’s entry and exit from the First World War, as well as whether the static form of combat that characterized much of the conflict was inevitable given the constraints of technology and the fact that the armed forces of the adversarial coalitions were relatively evenly matched. All participants are editors of the international Russia’s Great War and Revolution project. These papers are being proposed in the context of the centenary of the First World War’s outbreak.

Sub Unit

• History: Russian and Eurasian, 1800-1924

Chair

• Jennifer Siegel, Ohio State U

Papers

• Why Russia Went to War in 1914 - David Hendrik Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, Brock U (Canada)

• Was Maneuver Warfare Ever Possible? - Bruce William Menning, U of Kansas

• The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk and the Borderlands - John W. Steinberg, Austin Peay State U

Discussant

• David McDonald, U of Wisconsin-Madison