The forgotten front : the Eastern Theater of World War I, 1914-1915 / edited by Gerhard P. Gross ; translated by Janice W. Ancker.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gross, Gerhard Paul, 1958- editor.

Ancker, Janice W., translator.

JSTOR (Online Service)

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

World War, 1914-1918--Campaigns--Eastern Front.

World War, 1914-1918.

Collective memory--Germany.

Collective memory.

Germany.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, [2018]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Although much has been written about the Western Front in World War I, little attention has been given to developments in the east, especially during the crucial period of 1914-1915. Not only did these events have a significant impact on the fighting and outcome of the battles in the west, but all the major combatants in the east ultimately suffered collapses of their political systems with enormous consequences for the future events. Available for the first time in English, this seminal study features contributions from established and rising scholars from eight countries who argue German, central, and eastern European perspectives. Together, they illuminate diverse aspects of the Great War's Eastern Theater, including military strategy and combat, issues of national identity formation, perceptions of the enemy, and links to World War II. They also explore the experiences of POWs and the representation of the Eastern Front in museums, memorials, and the modern media. The scholarship on the First World War is dominated by the trauma of the modern, technologized war in the west, causing the significant political events and battles on the Eastern Front to shift to the background. The Forgotten Front illuminates overlooked but vital aspects of the conflict, and will be an essential resource for students and scholars seeking to better understand the war and its legacy.

Contents:

The Eastern Front: geopolitics, geography, and operations / Hew Strachan

Part 1. The battles on the Eastern Front, 1914-1915

Introductory remarks / Stig Förster

In the shadow of the West: the German conduct of war on the Eastern Front up to the end of 1915 / Gerhard P. Gross

Russia versus Germany: the Eastern Front of the First World War from 1914 to 1915 / Boris Khavkin

Austria-Hungary's Northern Front, 1914-1915 / Lothar Höbelt

Of bastards and brothers at arms: practical matters and resentments among the Central Powers in 1914-1915 / Günther Kronenbitter

Part 2. The battlefields of concepts / concepts of the battlefields: The Eastern Front of the First World War and perceptions of the enemy

Introductory remarks / Jörg Baberowski

The creation of an identity for the modern Polish nation in the First World War, 1914-1915 / Piotr Szlanta

The German people: Russia's self-concept and its concept of the enemy / Hubertus F. Jahn

The Slavic peoples: the Central Powers' self-concept and concept of the enemy / Peter Hoeres

Prisoners of war and casualties on the Eastern Front: an overview of the statistics and the problems facing the homeland fronts in 1914-1915 / Reinhard Nachtigal

All quiet on the Eastern Front: German literature and the Eastern Front of the First World War / Eva Horn

August 1914: Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Russian wartime literature in the early years of the war / Birgit Menzel

The reality of war and the war experience of Russian soldiers on the Russian Western Front, 1914-1915 / Igor Narskij

The war in the east of 1914-1915 and the experience of the German military / Hans-Erich Volkmann

From Ober Ost to Ostland? / Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius

The culture of remembrance of the First World War

Introductory remarks / Rainer Rother

War exhibitions: forms of presentation of the World War for the homeland front / Christine Beil

Suppressed remembrances: on the history of the Moscow Brothers' (Soldiers') Cemetery / Kristiane Janeke

The unknown soldier / Rainer Rother

The First World War on the Internet / Gundula Bavendamm

Prologue to the "War of Annihilation"? the Eastern Front of the First World War and the problem of continuities / Rüdiger Bergien.

Notes:

Includes index.

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780813175430

0813175437

Publisher Number:

40028555289

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