{"product_id":"9781487501495","title":"Twilight of Empire: The Brest-Litovsk Conference and the Remaking of East-Central Europe, 1917-1918","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTwilight of Empire\u003c\/i\u003e is the first book in English to examine the Brest-Litovsk Peace Conference during the later stages of World War I with the use of extensive archival sources. Two separate peace treaties were signed at Brest-Litovsk — the first between the Central Powers and Ukraine and the second between the Central Powers and Bolshevik Russia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorislav Chernev, through an insightful and in-depth analysis of primary sources and archival material, argues that although its duration was short lived, the Brest-Litovsk settlement significantly affected the post-Imperial transformation of East Central Europe. The conference became a focal point for the interrelated processes of peacemaking, revolution, imperial collapse, and nation-state creation in the multi-ethnic, entangled spaces of East Central Europe. Chernev's analysis expands beyond the traditional focus on the German-Russian relationship, paying special attention to the policies of Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and Ukraine. The transformations initiated by the Brest-Litovsk conferences ushered in the twilight of empire as the Habsburg, Hohenzollern, and Ottoman Empires all shared the fate of their Romanov counterpart at the end of World War I.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47054798520560,"sku":"9781487501495","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781487501495_p0.jpg?v=1763635939","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781487501495","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}