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Author Englund, Will, author.

Title March 1917 : on the brink of war and revolution / Will Englund.

Publication Info. New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2017]

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Location Call No. Public Note Status
 Davis Adult Nonfiction  940.31 ENG    CHECK SHELVES
Edition First edition.
Description x, 387 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Content type text txt rdacontent
Format volume nc rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [331]-364) and index.
Contents "Go! Go! Go!" -- "A crime against civilization" -- "Rich earth, rotting leaves" -- "You fellows are in for it" -- "We have had to push and push and push" -- "People think it will be very bloody" -- "A twilight zone" -- "No, sir, boss" -- "A pleasant air of verisimilitude" -- "We are sitting on a volcano" -- "Cossacks, riding up and down" -- "Happier days for all humanity" -- "Nothing to lose but their miserable lives" -- "The great liberal leader of the world" -- "It might be all right for you to have your little pocket gun" -- "Like a river at flood" -- "To scold an earthquake" -- "Reeked with patriotism" -- "A mending of their troubles" -- "The lid is kept screwed down" -- "When the man-world is mad for war" -- "History will count you right.
Summary "A riveting history of the month that transformed the world's greatest nations as Russia faced revolution and America entered World War I. "We are provincials no longer," said Woodrow Wilson on March 5, 1917, at his second inaugural. He spoke on the eve of America's entrance into World War I, as Russia teetered between autocracy and democracy. Just ten days after Wilson's declaration, Tsar Nicholas II abdicated the throne, ending a three-centuries-long dynasty and ushering in the false dawn of a democratic Russia. Wilson asked Congress to declare war against Germany a few short weeks later, asserting the United States's new role as a global power and its commitment to spreading American ideals abroad. Will Englund draws on a wealth of contemporary diaries, memoirs, and newspaper accounts to furnish texture and personal detail to the story of that month. March 1917 celebrates the dreams of warriors, pacifists, revolutionaries, and reactionaries, even as it demonstrates how their successes and failures constitute the origin story of the complex world we inhabit a century later."--Provided by publisher.
Subject World War, 1914-1918.
Nineteen seventeen, A.D.
Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921.
World War, 1914-1918 -- United States.
Europe -- History -- 1871-1918.
HISTORY / Europe.
HISTORY / Military / World War I.
HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century.
ISBN 9780393292084
0393292088