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One of the most titanic and hostile confrontations of two great powers in modern history was the clash of Russia and Germany from 1914 to 1945. Yet, as Michael David-Fox points out in his superb introduction to this republication of the summer 2009 issue of the journal Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, there has been a peculiar lack of attention to the interrelationships and interactive history of these two societies. Despite the massive amount of scholarship on each country in isolation and the fairly numerous attempts to compare the two countries in this era, detailed exploration of interactions between them has been infrequent and unsystematic. David-Fox points to “entangled” history as a promising methodological alternative to comparative and transnational history. The entangled historical method involves tracing interactions between individuals and institutions across national boundaries. It is a method that has been fruitfully applied to writing about empires, and this volume demonstrates that it can add a rich dimension to many topics that too often are treated solely within a national framework.

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