Russia's First World War

Peter Gatrell is Professor of Economic History at the University of Manchester. He has written extensively on Russia, including (with Nick Baron) Homelands: W ar , Population and Statehood in Eastern Europe and Russia , 1918-1924 (2004) and the prize-winning book, A Whole Empire Walking: Refugees in Russia during World W ar I (1999).

• DedicationContentsList of tables and mapsPrefaceIntroduction1. The front line, 1914-19162. ‘Educated society' and the Russian elite3. Narod: plebeian society during the war4. Tsarist authority in question, 1915-19165. Mobilising industry: Russia's war economy at full stretch6. Paying for the war, Russian style7. Feeding Russia: food supply as Achilles' heel8. Economic nationalism and the mobilisation of ethnicity in the 'great patriotic war'9. Hierarchy subverted: the February Revolution and the Provisional Government10. Economic meltdown and revolutionary objectives: from European war to Civil War, 1917-191811. Russia's First World War: an overview