This book explores the ramifications of 1917 arguing that it was a cataclysmic year in world
history. In this volume thirteen scholars reflect on the myriad legacies of the year 1917 as a
year of war revolution upheaval and change. Crisscrossing the globe and drawing on a range of
disciplinary approaches from military social and economic history to museum memory and
cultural studies the collection highlights how the First World War remains 'living history'.
With contributions on the Russian revolutions the entry of the United States into the war the
Caucasus and Flanders war fronts as well as on India and New Zealand and chapters by
pre-eminent First World War academics including Jay Winter Annette Becker and Michael
Neiberg the collection engages all with an interest in the era and in the history and
commemoration of war.
