A Minor Apocalypse: Warsaw during the First World War
ISBN: 9781501707889
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Cornell University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Warsaw (Poland) -- History -- 20th century; World War 1914–1918 -- Social aspects -- Poland -- Warsaw;

In A Minor Apocalypse , Robert Blobaum explores the social and cultural history of Warsaw's "forgotten war" of 1914-1918. Beginning with the bank panic that accompanied the outbreak of the Great War, Blobaum guides his readers through spy scares, bombardments, mass migratory movements, and the Russian evacuation of 1915.


Robert Blobaum is Eberly Family Distinguished Professor of History at West Virginia University. He is the author of Rewolucja: Russian Poland, 1904-1907 and editor of Antisemitism and Its Opponents in Modern Poland, both from Cornell.

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