Undigested lessons before the First world war
The characteristic of the imperialist war from the beginning of the twentieth century concentric semicircles approaching the three empires Austro-Hungarian, Russian and Ottoman; the inevitable collision of these and other empires and protoempires. A careful examination of these wars preceding the First world war, shows that each of them could have been prevented and to extinguish at the very beginning; moreover, there were some attempts of tsarist Russia as one of the parties. But either way, inclined to peaceful resolution of conflicts, driven into a hopeless situation unprecedented information campaigns, terrorist acts and provocations by some aggressive-minded social and/or ethnic groups, behind which stood the large States and their unions.