Read The Eastern Front 1914-1917 Online
Authors: Norman Stone
On the economic side, there is a useful bibliography of recent work in René Girault:
Emprunts russes et investissements français en Russie
(Paris 1973). The various works of A. L. Sidorov have proved essential to me throughout this book; a convenient list of them may be found in the volume of essays:
Ekonomicheskoye Polozheniye Rossii v gody pervoy mirovoy voyni
(ed. K. N. Tarnovski and others, Moscow 1973).
I have also used a number of archival sources. The Hoover Institution in Stanford, California, has some extremely valuable ones: for Russia, the minutes of the Council of Ministers (
Vysochayshe utverzhdenniye osobiye zhurnali sovieta ministrov i osobikh soveshchaniy
), the
Osnovniye direktivi i direktivniye ukazaniya Verkhovnogo Glavnokomanduyushchego—Stavka
orders and conference minutes for 1914–15- and the
Kratky otchet o deyatelnosti Voyennogo Ministerstva za 1916 god
. The ‘Golovin Archive’ also contains numerous items of lesser value, but none the less of interest. The German archives have survived only very limitedly: v.
Militärgeschichtliche Mitteilungen
1968/2 pp. 135–44 and R. Studanski: ‘Die Bestände des deutschen Militärarchivs’ in:
Zeitschrift für Militärgeschichte
Jg. 4 1965, which replace earlier articles. The finest collection of archives of the war still existing in Europe is probably the Vienna
Kriegsarchiv
, of which I have made extensive use, as indicated in the footnotes. British archives, in the Public Record Office, both Foreign Office and War Office, may be used with profit. The Index volume 178A shows the various military attachés’ reports: those of Blair (985–1037) and Neilson (1119–1126) are the most valuable. Knox’s were almost all printed in his
With the Russian Army
. The French observers were more reliable, on the whole, and the
Ministére de la Guerre: Archives historiques
(Château de Vincennes) ‘Campagne contre l’Allemagne 1914–1918’ Cartons 77–81 contain their reports. The essential ones here—and a source worth publishing–are the eight
Rapports du Colonel Langlois
, in Carton 79; the military attachés’ reports in Carton 77 also contain important material.
Index
Aerial Photography,
238
Alexandrovsk,
158
Alexeyev,
21
,
31
,
34
,
35
,
51
,
53
,
82
,
84
,
85
,
87
,
88
,
94
,
95
,
96
,
101
,
107
,
111
,
119
,
120
,
130
, 136 ff.,
142
,
149
n.,
169
,
171
,
174
,
175
,
185–7
passim,
179
,
180
,
181
,
184–7
passim,
189
,
191–2
,
212
, 221 ff.,
227
,
230
,
232–4
,
238
,
239
,
246
,
257
,
270
,
271
,
273
,
274
,
277
,
279
Allies,
116
Allison,
153
Alsace,
44
Altschiller,
26
Anarchists,
283
Anatra factory,
210
Andersen,
176
Andrássy,
269
Andrey Vladimirovitch, Grand Duke,
192
Angerapp lines,
54
,
59
,
62
,
67
,
68
,
97
,
111
Anglo-Russian Committee (trade),
155
Antsiferov,
297
Arab troops,
278
Archangel,
157–8
Ardennes,
50
Arges river,
280
‘ Army Group Archduke Karl’,
255
Arsiero-Asiago,
246
Artillery,
23–4
,
38
,
93–4
,
131–2
, 146 ff.,
210
,
239
,
247
,
251–2
Artillery Committee,
23
Artillery Department,
28
,
29
,
31
,
32
,
144
,
149
,
150
,
155
,
161
,
163
,
211
Artois,
133
Asiago,
258
August 1914,
44–5
Augustow,
118
Austerlitz,
58
Austria,
27
,
33
,
34
,
42–3
,
44
,
51
,
53
,
70–6
,
219
,
253
,
268
;
aircraft,
80
;
gunboats,
277
;
pilots,
241
Austro-German army,
23
,
180
,
239
;
quarrels,
243
,
262
Austro-Hungarian armies,
38
,
44
,
45
,
53
,
55
,
71
,
82
,
84
,
88–91
,
96–9
,
120–1
,
122
,
123
,
141–2
,
190–1
,
246
;
IV,
86–90
,
126
,
128
,
138
,
178
,
240
,
241
,
259
,
262
,
271
,
272
;
VII,
140
,
252
;
VIII,
247
, defeated,
254
;
cavalry,
80
,
86
;
conscription,
214
;
guns,
223
;
losses,
190
,
251
;
mobilisation,
75–80
;
munition,
149
n.;
railways,
73–8
Averescu,
277
Ayvaz factory,
161
‘Bag-men’,
297
Bakaritsa,
157
Baku,
203
Balanin,
28
Balkans,
35
,
81
,
88
,
89
,
109
,
111
,
120
,
130
,
140
,
243
,
282
Baltic,
18
,
21
,
29
,
33
,
52
,
59
,
171
,
185
,
281
Baranovitchi,
52
,
53
,
135
,
182
,
184
,
189
,
257
,
260
,
267
Barsukov,
28
Baykov,
206
Bayov,
27
Bayrashev,
26
Belgian army,
93
Benderi,
279
Benckendorff,
156