Description: Challenging longstanding analytical frameworks, historian Jesse Kauffman argues that the emergence of modern nation-states in Eastern Europe is less a product of the disposition of WWI than of policies whereby Russia, Germany, and Austria encouraged nationalist uprisings among one another's imperial subjects.
Brief description: Jesse Kauffman is Professor of History at Eastern Michigan University.
Review Quotes: Good history must speak to both the past and the present. Jesse Kauffman's illuminating and innovative book gives us new insight into Central Europe from 1905 to 1921, years that forged its modern geopolitical landscape. Published at a moment of renewed regional tension, The Blood-Dimmed Tide delivers a much-needed reassessment of the region and its history of conflict.--Michael S. Neiberg, author of Dance of the Furies