1. Causes of WW1
... . Russia had also great interests in the Balkans as they would greatly benefit from the collapse of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire as well they wanted to advance their policy of "pan-Slavism", aimed at uniting and supporting their fellow Slavs. All this transformed a fairly poor and backward region into what some historians name the "powder-keg of Europe". Historian Suzanne Karpilovsky ... summarised that the main conflict was "the ardent Panslavism of Serbia and Russia's willingness to support its Slavic brother conflicted with Austria-Hungary's Pan-Germanism". It was the struggle of nat...
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