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‘Earth, earth, do not cover our blood and do not keep silent’.

The First World War is a seminal historical event; an historical caesura whose aftershocks still resonate.

Eric Hobsbawm has recently raised the question ‘Can wewrite the history of the Russian revolution?’. Coming from someone who has written a history of the twentieth century, of which the Russian revolution comprises a rather distant component, the question is somewhat unexpected.