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The new issue of “History Lessons with Tamara Eidelman” is dedicated to the first year of the First World War, those months when all its participants believed that they would finish everything very quickly, defeat their enemies and return home by Christmas. Instead, huge battles began, the likes of which mankind had not yet known, and the war turned into a long, exhausting slaughter.
BOOKS:
*Barbara Tuckman. August guns.
*Alexander Solzhenitsyn. August the Fourteenth.
*Martin Gilbert. World War I.
*Vladislav Aksenov. Rumors, images, emotions. Mass moods of Russians during the war and revolution.
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00:00:00 Introduction. Lecture topic.
00:00:58 Advertising.
00:03:11 The First World War is a terrible blow to humanity.
00:04:31 World War I - gentleman's war?
00:10:07 Confidence of countries in their victory.
00:14:41 The desire of people to go to war.
00:19:18 Chronology of the events of the beginning of the First World War.
00:20:15 German offensive. Schlieffen plan.
00:23:46 French offensive. Plan XVII.
00:25:42 The Russian army in the First World War.
00:28:36 Belgian resistance to Germany.
00:31:10 Assault on Liege.
00:33:53 The use of bomber aircraft in the First World War.
00:36:43 Advance of German troops deep into Belgium.
00:38:57 The destruction of the Belgian city of Louvain by the Germans.
00:40:03 The barbaric nature of the war.
00:43:49 "Offensive at all costs" - the wrong strategy of the French army.
00:47:56 Mobilization in Russia. Rise of patriotism. How was it really?
00:53:34 Unrest after the announcement of mobilization in Russia. General grief.
00:58:51 East Prussian operation.
01:01:12 Commanders of both sides in the East Prussian operation.
01:05:48 What led Russia to defeat in the East Prussian operation?
01:09:55 Battle of Tannenberg. The defeat of the army of General Samsonov.
01:15:47 Russian victory in the Battle of Galicia.
01:16:35 Retreat from the Schlieffen plan. Successes of the German army in France.
01:19:00 Lack of troops in Paris. Preparing Paris for defense.
01:21:25 Turn of the German army from Paris.
01:24:30 Battle on the Marne River.
01:26:54 Run to the sea.
01:28:55 The Ottoman Empire is a secret ally of Germany.
01:33:10 Christmas truce.
01:34:44 Why didn't the military go home?