A unique study which uses the collapse of Tsarist Russia and its consequences to argue that the events on the often-forgotten Eastern Front of WWI had a stronger impact on the outcome of the war than is usually accepted.

• Preface


• Introduction: Imperial Challenge


• 1: The Outbreak of War and the Transformation of the Borderlands


• 2: The Front Migrates


• 3: Remobilizing the Military: Combat Innovation, POWs, and Forced Labor


• 4: Remobilizing Society: Nurses, Doctors, and Social Control


• 5: Revolution


• 6: Decolonization


• Conclusion: Imperial Apocalypse


• Works Cited

Joshua A. Sanborn is the author of two previous books: Drafting the Russian Nation: Military Conscription, Total War, and Mass Politics, 1905-1925 and, with co-author Annette Timm, Gender, Sex, and the Shaping of Modern Europe: A History from the French Revolution to the Present Day. He lives in Easton, Pennsylvania, with his wife and two children.