Delegates from both sides around the table during the peace negotiations at Brest-Litovsk in December 1917.
Image: IWM (Q 86727)
Our final branch meeting of 2024 will consider why the Eastern Front is so often a neglected (but important) subject. It will also look at the links between the World War, the 1917 Revolution, and the Russian Civil War.
Our speaker, Evan Mawdsley, was Professor of International History at the University of Glasgow. His teaching and research were concerned mainly with 20th century Russian History and also the History of the Second World War.
His published work on the era of the First World War includes The Russian Revolution and the Baltic Fleet: War and Politics, February 1917 to April 1918 (1978) and The Russian Civil War (1987). Evan was also involved in the preparation of the multi-volume series 'Russia's Great War and Revolution'.
The War for the Seas: A Maritime History of World War II (2019) and Supremacy at Sea: Task Force 58 and the Central Pacific Victory (2024) are his most recent publications.