For
a brief few Units in the summer of 1914, it really did seem like a tug-of-war was
going on between countries, "to go to war or to not go to war." (In reality, most countries
were ready to go to war.) See, if you can identify the
participants depicted in this caricature. |
What you must do in this unit
Some videos that you can watch for this unit
Extra Credit Options
- For 50 points maximum extra credit, watch Rasputin and explain how and why this happened in a one-page paper!
- For 50 points maximum extra credit, read
Barbara Tuchman, The Guns of August (1962) and write a one-page paper in which you explain what went wrong for the Russian army in the first two months of the war.
- For 50 points maximum extra credit, read
W. Bruce Lincoln, Passage through Armageddon: The Russians in War
and Revolution, 1914-1918 (1986) and write a one-page paper in which you assess the impact of the war on Russian society.
- For 50 points maximum extra credit, read
Aleksei Brusilov, A Soldier's Notebook (1930) and write a one-page paper explaining Brusilov's role in historical events.
- For 50 points maximum extra credit, read
Edvard Radzinskii, The Rasputin File (2000) and write a one-page paper explaining "how" and "why!"
- For 25 points maximum extra credit, read
the "Willy-Nicky" Telegrams,
exchanged between tsar and kaiser, 29 July - 1 August, 1914 and write a paragraph in which
you assess these rulers' grasp on reality. You can also read the tsar's August 1914 manifesto announcing the start of the war to the Russian people.
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