Russland als Großmacht
Russia as a Great Power

Author(s): Grigori Nikolajewitsch Trubezkoi
Subject(s): History, Recent History (1900 till today), Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919)
Published by: CEEOL Collections / Digital Reproductions
Keywords: Panslavism; Russia and the Balkans;
Summary/Abstract: PUBLISHED BY DEUTSCHE VERLAGS-ANSTALT STUTTGART UND BERLIN, 1917. „The present study on the state of international politics and the tasks assigned to Russia in connection with it was written in the autumn of 1910 - at a time when the author took a break in his diplomatic service, worked for some time as a journalist, and then accepted his appointment in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In a small space, the author has succeeded in providing a clear and descriptive analysis of the global political crystallizations since their appearance of. Bismarck up to the events of 1910. All major political shifts in international peoples' life, the roots of today's grouping of powers, are here uncovered by a careful and knowledgeable hand. Some judgments, namely those about the way things are going in the Balkans, have been somewhat outdated by recent events, but have not been entirely eliminated. The fact that the author does not ascribe that exaggerated and completely wrong meaning to Pan-Slavism, as often happened in Germany until recently and is basically still happening now, is proof not only of his sharp eyes, but also of his clean disposition. Basically, Pan-Slavism in the hands of the Russian reaction was just as feeble but popular as a political tool as Pan-Islamism was in the limp hands of Abd ul Hamid. After the last Balkan Wars, Russia's prestige has only lost its effect on the Balkan Slavs.” (from the translator's introduction in 1917)

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