The Eastern Question

Karl Marx

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• eBook ISBN: 9781136948459
• Topic: Economics
• Subtopic: International Economics
• Index: Economics

First Published in 1994. This volume is a reprint of certain letters and articles by Karl Marx, dealing with the Eastern Question as it presented itself in the fifties, with the particular events that led up to the Crimean War, and with the War itself. This title includes certain military articles bearing very directly on the war, primarily written by Engels, or grew out of letters from him to Marx. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• I. Turkey
• II. The London Press—Policy of Napoleon on the Turkish Question
• III. The Real Issue in Turkey
• IV. The Turkish Question
• V. Turkey and Russia
• VI. The Ultimatum and After
• VII. The English and French Fleets—The Times—Russian Aggrandizement
• VIII. The Russian Humbug
• IX. Brunnow and Clarendon—Armenian Proclamation
• X. Aberdeen, Clarendon, Brunnow—Connivance of the Aberdeen Ministry with Russia
• XI. Russian Policy against Turkey
• XII. Austria and Russia
• XIII. Layard—Gladstone—Aberdeen—Palmerston
• XIV. The Russo-Turkish Difficulty—Ducking and Dodging of the British Cabinet—Nesselrode’s Latest Note
• XV. The Russian Question—Curious Diplomatic Correspondence
• XVI. Russia and the Western Powers
• XVII. Traditional Policy of Russia
• XVIII. The Press on Eastern Affairs—Notes of England and Russia
• XIX. Russian Movements—Denmark—United States and Europe
• XX. To Withdraw or Not to Withdraw
• XXI. Urquhart—Bern—The Turkish Question in the House of Lords
• XXII. The Turkish Question in the Commons
• XXIII. Affairs Continental and English
• XXIV. The Vienna Note
• XXV. The Vienna Note (continued)
• XXVI. The English Ministry Outwitted—Panic
• XXVII. The War Question
• XXVIII. The Turkish Manifesto
• XXIX. The Northern Powers
• XXX. War
• XXXI. The Holy War
• XXXII. Persia—Denmark
• XXXIII. Diplomacy Again
• XXXIV. The War on the Danube
• XXXV. The Quadruple Convention—England and the War
• XXXVI. The Russian Victory—Position of England and France
• XXXVII. Private News from St. Petersburg
• XXXVIII. Russian Policy
• XXXIX. Palmerston’s Resignation
• XL. Progress of the Turkish War
• XLI. England and Russia
• XLII. More Documents
• XLIII. The European War
• XLIV. The War in Asia
• XLV. The Czar’s Views—Prince Albert
• XLVI. Cobden and Russia
• XLVII. War Finance
• XLVIII. Blue Books—Ambassadors Withdrawing
• XLIX. Russian Diplomacy—The Shrines—Montenegro
• L. Count Orloff’s Proposals
• LI. Debates in Parliament
• LII. Kossuth—Disraeli and Hume—United States—France and England—Greece
• LIII. France and England—The Greek Rising—Asia
• LIV. The Russian Retreat
• LV. The Documents on the Partition of Turkey
• LVI. The Secret Diplomatic Correspondence
• LVII. War Declared—Mussulman and Christian
• LVIII. War with Russia
• LIX. Russia and the German Powers
• LX. Turkey and Greece—Italy
• LXI. Austria and Servia—Greece and Turkey—Turkey and the Western Powers
• LXII. The Greek Insurrection—Alliance between Prussia and Austria—Russian Armaments
• LXIII. Bombardment of Odessa—Austria and Russia—The Greek Insurrection—Montenegro—Manteuffel
• LXIV. Prussian Policy
• LXV. The Exploits in the Baltic and Black Seas—Anglo-French System of Operations
• LXVI. Delay on the Danube
• LXVII. Speeches—St. Arnaud
• LXVIII. State of the Russian War
• LXIX. The War—Debate in Parliament
• LXX. The Russian Failure
• LXXI. Russia, Austria, Turkey, Wallachia, and Redcliffe
• LXXIL. Austria
• LXXIII. The Siege of Silistria
• LXXIV. The Theatre of War—The Russian Note to the German Powers—Servia and Austria
• LXXV. The Private Conference at Vienna—Ministerial Crisis
• LXXVI. Another War Debate
• LXXVII. The Austro-Turkish Treaty—More Parliamentary Talk
• LXXVIII. That Bore of a War
• LXXIX. The Russian Retreat—Denmark
• LXXX. The Evacuation
• LXXXI. Servia—England, France, and Constantinople
• LXXXII. The Capture of Bomarsund
• LXXXIII. The Condition of Wallachia—Revolution in Turkey
• LXXXIV. The Fleet off at Last—Revolt of the Moldavians
• LXXXV. The Attack on Sebastopol
• LXXXVI. The Decay of Religious Authority
• LXXXVII. The Military Power of Russia
• LXXXVIII. The Siege of Sebastopol
• LXXXIX. Progress of the War
• XC. British Disaster in the Crimea—The British War System
• XCI. Russian Diplomatists
• XCII. Affairs in Russia
• XCIII. Fate of the Great Adventurer
• XCIV. Napoleon’s Last Dodge
• XCV. Prospects in France and England
• XCVI. Napoleon’s Apology
• XCVII. Panslavism
• XCVIII. Austria’s Weakness
• XCIX. The New Arbiter of Europe
• C. Another Vienna Disclosure
• CI. Ministerial Crisis in England
• CII. The Birmingham Conference
• CIII. Austria and England
• CIV. Napier and Graham
• CV. The Great Event of the War
• CVI. Alarums and Excursions
• CVII. The Russians as Fighters
• CVIII. The Russian Loan
• CIX. Traditional English Policy
• CX. The Fall of Kars—I
• CXI. The Fall of Kars—II
• CXII. The Fall of Kars—III
• CXIII. The Fall of Kars—IV
• Index