Wilson Center Experts
William Bruce Lincoln
Visiting Grant
Kennan Institute
Expertise:
Russia and Eurasia
Affiliation:
Presidential Research Professor, Northern Illinois University
Wilson Center Project(s):
Russia in the Great War, 1914-1918
Term:
Jun 01, 1984
Jun 01, 1984
Project Summary
Historical account of World War I, that takes into account all portions of Russian society through the prism of a war whose prospects ranged from moderately grim (in the fall of 1914) to utterly hopeless (by the fall of 1917). A class study that combines foreign and domestic policies of the three government forms (Tsarist, Provisional, and Bolshevik) during the time period. Treats the period as a continuum.