acknowledge its existence during the era. The final category includes those who believe imperialism to have played a key role in the start of the war in conjunction with other causal factors such as nationalism, militarism, and capitalism.
Some recognize imperialism as the war's primary cause and with all of the domineering strategies employed by western countries, it is clear that imperialism did have a part in the war. Bukharin notes that Britain, France, Germany, Russia, and the war's other major players were all aggressors (Bukharin and Preobrazhensky). The British and French hoped to overtake Constantinople (Bukharin and Preobrazhensky). Under their imperialist policies, Persia and Turkey were overturned and Galicia was stripped from Austria (Bukharin and Preobrazhensky). Similarly, th
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