Eric Lohr's Russia's Great War successfully restores a new focus to Soviet historiography by tying the collapse of the Russian Empire to its involvement and experience in WWI and at the end of the old regime. In multilayered examination of similar collapses in the Ottoman, German and Austro-Hungarian empires, Lohr encourages lateral and comparative thinking, and will introduce students to the latest research on the subject. The book's scope will range from the period before 1914 and extend into the Bolshevik era, and stick closely to the analysis of clarifying the end of the old regime, with emphasis on the impacts of WWI.