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S. V. Kretinin
Book review: März, Peter. After
the resulting catastrophe. Germany,
Europe and the First World War.
Böhlau Publishing: Cologne,
Weimar, Vienna, 2014. 295 p.
(März, Peter. Nach der Urkatastrophe:
Deutschland, Europa und der Erste
Weltkrieg. Böhlau: Köln, Weimar,
Wien, 2014. 295 s.)
// History magazine - researches.
2014. № 3.
P. 357-359.
URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=65804
S. V. Kretinin Book review: März, Peter. After
the resulting catastrophe. Germany,
Europe and the First World War.
Böhlau Publishing: Cologne,
Weimar, Vienna, 2014. 295 p.
(März, Peter. Nach der Urkatastrophe:
Deutschland, Europa und der Erste
Weltkrieg. Böhlau: Köln, Weimar,
Wien, 2014. 295 s.)
Abstract:
The article presents a review of the new book by the German historian Peter März, a recognized specialist in
the history of World War I. His work is predicated on the basic idea of the interrelation and continuity of European history
between the modern and the contemporary times. The starting point is set with the Peace of Westphalia of 1648, which
ended the first pan-European war. The next important time mark is the end of the War of the Spanish succession and the
Peace of Utrecht of 1714. According to März, the established system of international relations continued until the period
of the Revolution and Napoleonic France. In 1815 began a new chapter of European history resulting from the decisions
of the Vienna congress. The author considers that the Treaty of Versailles of 1919 determined the shape of Europe in the
XXth century until the events of 1990: the end of the Cold war and the collapse of the Communist regimes. The structure of
the reviewed book combines chapters both traditional for a general work on the history of World War I, as well as methodologically
innovative sections. The book presents a prominent general research on the history of World War I and its
consequences for Europe on the whole, and Germany in particular. On the basis of modern publications, the author draws
a striking picture of the global catastrophe of 1914-1918. Among the undeniable merits of this book are its limpidity in the
written language and the clearly identified methodological accents.
Keywords:
World War I, historiography, Treaty of Versailles (1919), German history, Germano-russo-polish relations, Russian history, Weimar Germany, World War II, Cold war, Pan-Germanism idea.
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References
1. März, Peter. Der Erste Weltkrieg: Deutschland zwischen dem langen 19. Jahrhundert und dem kurzen 20. Jahrhundert. Vögel: Frankfurt / Main, Leipzig, 2005.
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