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The Eastern Front, 1914-1917 est un ouvrage d'occasion de l'historien britannique Norman Stone, consacr\u00e9 \u00e0 la guerre sur le front de l'Est pendant la Premi\u00e8re Guerre mondiale. Il propose une lecture renouvel\u00e9e des batailles, de l'\u00e9conomie russe et du lien entre guerre et r\u00e9volution.<\/p>\n

\u00c9tat et d\u00e9tails de cet exemplaire<\/h2>\n

Norman Stone’s important book is the first authoritative account of the Russian Front to be published in the West. Churchill called the Eastern Front ‘the unknown war’ and there is still no Soviet official history of the army’s role during the First World War.<\/p>\n

It was in the East, with Russia in turmoil, that many decisive engagements took place. Norman stone believes that ‘the outcome of the battles was dictated by factors that do not always figure in works of military history’. Using a wide range of sources from European and American research centers, he describes the battles of the Eastern Front. Tannenberg, Austria-Hungary’s entry into the war, the Russian retreat in the summer of 1915, the role of Lundendorff, the Brusilov offensive – all are carefully examined and substantially reinterpreted.<\/p>\n

Traditional accounts of the Russian war effort describe an army crippled by shortages of shells and war materials. Norman Stone’s analysis shows that German economic superiority has been greatly overestimated. The Russians suffered from a shortage of organizational and administrative ability. Their economy suffered a crisis not of decline but of growth; as a result capitalism, as Western Europe knew it, was killed off in Russia in 1915-16, not in 1917-18. In his final chapter, the author reviews the connection between war and revolution in Tsarist Russia, and suggests new approaches to our understanding of this complex problem.<\/p>\n

Norman Stone never loses sight of his greater themes and places the conflict in a larger context. He explains the mechanics of revolutionary development and the downfall of the Tsar and thereby throws new light on our interpretation of the war in the West. The book is carefully documented and there are maps of the campaign. As the author writes: ‘the book travelled a long way from the battlefields where it began; it may even have become three different books. But total war needs total history, as far as can be managed.’<\/p>\n

R\u00e9sum\u00e9 de The Eastern Front, 1914-1917<\/h2>\n

Ce livre est pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 comme la premi\u00e8re \u00e9tude faisant autorit\u00e9 sur le front russe publi\u00e9e en Occident. Norman Stone y examine les grandes batailles du front de l'Est, de Tannenberg \u00e0 l'entr\u00e9e de l'Autriche-Hongrie dans la guerre, en passant par la retraite russe de l'\u00e9t\u00e9 1915 et l'offensive Brusilov. Il s'appuie sur un large \u00e9ventail de sources issues de centres de recherche europ\u00e9ens et am\u00e9ricains. L'auteur remet en cause l'id\u00e9e d'une arm\u00e9e russe paralys\u00e9e par la p\u00e9nurie d'obus et de mat\u00e9riel : selon lui, la sup\u00e9riorit\u00e9 \u00e9conomique allemande a \u00e9t\u00e9 largement surestim\u00e9e, et les difficult\u00e9s russes rel\u00e8vent surtout d'un manque de capacit\u00e9s d'organisation et d'administration. Il analyse aussi la crise \u00e9conomique russe de 1915-1916 et, dans son dernier chapitre, le rapport entre guerre et r\u00e9volution dans la Russie tsariste.<\/p>\n

\u00c0 propos de Norman Stone<\/h2>\n

Norman Stone (1941-2019) est un historien britannique sp\u00e9cialis\u00e9 dans l'Europe centrale et orientale ainsi que dans la Russie. Professeur d'histoire moderne \u00e0 l'universit\u00e9 d'Oxford, il a aussi conseill\u00e9 Margaret Thatcher. Son travail sur la Premi\u00e8re Guerre mondiale, notamment sur le front de l'Est, reste souvent cit\u00e9. Il est \u00e9galement connu pour ses travaux sur l'Europe du XXe si\u00e8cle.<\/p>\n

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