solved Brief Description: Many countries participated in the war, and I

Brief Description: Many countries participated in the war, and I am interested in the reasons why they did it. I want to investigate the reasons for fought in the war and the far-reaching impact on Russia.Particular Question: What factors motivated Russia to fight in the First World War?Research Essay (40 % of course grade): You are required to write a research essay on a topic of your choice relating to the First World War. The essay must present a clearly argued thesis about the topic. Topics and sources must be presented to the professor for approval through the research essay proposal and bibliography assignment. Please note that no research essay will be accepted without prior submission of an essay proposal and bibliography.The essay must be based on research in at least four scholarly sources, at least two of which must be books (not counting the textbook). The textbook may be used as a supplementary source of information, and it may be cited in your finished essay. But you are not to base your research on it or on the lecture material. Most of the citations in your research essay must be to your four scholarly sources. The point of any research essay is to go deeper than the level of information available in a textbook or in class lectures. Due to their morespecialized nature, the supplementary readings posted on Brightspace may be counted among your minimum number of sources if any of them relate to your essay topic.There are ample numbers of e-books available to SMU users through the SMU library’s online catalogue of books. Plenty of articles are accessible through the library’s online databases for scholarly journals. Avoid using Google Books as a source for electronic books, as most of the books available on that website are available in preview form only and do not feature complete content.IMPORTANT: Do not use non-specialist encyclopedias (such as Wikipedia) or non- academic websites (such as History.com) when researching your essay. Do not cite such sources in your footnotes and bibliography. Use of such sources will result in a lower grade, or even a failing grade for the assignment, depending on the extent to which you use them.Some use may be made of the specialist reference work, 1914-1918 Online, which features the International Encyclopedia of the First World War ( https://encyclopedia.1914- 1918-online.net/home/ ). This is an excellent reference that can orient you to many topics relating to the First World War. The notes and selected bibliographies that appear at the end of each article can help you to identify some of the latest scholarly sources on a given topic. You can check the library holdings at SMU for availability of these sources. In your research essay you are welcome to use content from the articles available on this website and to cite these articles in your footnotes and bibliography. However, because it is an encyclopedia, it should be used as a starting point for your research and is not as a sufficient resource by itself. Like your textbook, articles from this online reference work will not be counted among your minimum number of sources. You still must demonstrate that the majority of your source material is derived from scholarly books and journal articles.LENGTH OF THE ESSAY: The text of the completed research essay must be 6 to 8 typed double-spaced pages in length, not counting title page, bibliography, and footnotes. Essays shorter than 6 full pages of double-spaced text will be penalized for being too brief. If the text of your essay ends half way down the sixth page, this constitutes 5.5 pages of text, not 6 full pages. There is no penalty if your essay is longer than 8 pages of text.Further information on writing and formatting the essay will be provided on Brightspace. This additional information will include important instructions on the proper use of source citations in the essay. Citations are required and must take the form of footnotes in accordance with the “notes and bibliography” style of documentation in the Chicago Manual of Style. For more information on this style, see the following brief online guide: https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citatio…Your essay also must include a bibliography of all works cited in the footnotes. Do not list sources in your bibliography that are not cited in your footnotes. Further information on proper presentation of citations and other format concerns may be found in the HistoryDepartment’s online Style Manual and sample essay pages, both of which are available at: http://www.smu.ca/academics/departments/history-st…The research essay is due at 11:59 p.m. on Friday, June 11. Submit your assignment as an electronic document (in MS Word format) to a research essay drop box that will be set up on Brightspace. Marks will be deducted from all essays received after the deadline at the rate of 5% per day (weekends included). Late submissions may be accepted without penalty if they result from illness or from family emergencies.These are two scholarly sources I found. They are both books, so you don’t need to find the source of the book. These two sources are very helpful for this Research Essay. Please quote the content in the essay. Thank you. The login account is S3571146 and the password is 19991223ylfS. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.Bibliography for them:https://web-a-ebscohost-com.library.smu.ca/ehost/d…https://www-fulcrum-org.library.smu.ca/concern/monographs/3197xm60wGatrell, Peter. Russia’s First World War: a Social and Economic History. Hoboken: Taylor and Francis, 2014.Sanborn, Joshua A., author.Imperial apocalypse: the Great War and the destruction of the Russian Empire /Joshua A. Sanborn.If you can not open the page, search for their names:Russia’s First World War: a Social and Economic HistoryImperial apocalypse: the Great War and the destruction of the Russian Empire