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Battle for Raw Materials: The Great War in the Heart of Eurasia, 1917–1920

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Battle for Raw Materials: The Great War in the Heart of Eurasia, 1917–1920
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The journey home from the "armies behind barbed wire" formed between 1914 and 1918 proved no less dangerous than the road to prisoner-of-war camps. Against the backdrop of the disintegration of empires in the depths of Eurasia, the position of people from Central and Eastern Europe proved so significant that it is hardly comparable in the history of total wars and massive military conflicts. The creation of a truly global history of the Great War has made it possible to reconstruct the contribution of prisoners of war (in this case, from the Central Powers) to the revolutionary transformations on the Asian periphery of the former Russian Empire. There are almost no remaining sources capable of revealing the full range of motives of those who once again took up arms far from their homeland, expecting to serve it once again, and not just themselves. This collection of memoirs by two authors and documents reflects not only the mythology of “heroic rescue,” but also personal ambitions, the degree and peculiarities of the perception of “too” non-European realities, and demonstrates underestimated alternatives for the development of events at the end of the First World War.
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