The Last of the Tsars: Nicholas II and the Russian Revolution

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The Last of the Tsars: Nicholas II and the Russian Revolution
Hardcover ? 23 February 2017
byRobert Service(Author)

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The Last of the Tsars: Nicholas II and the Russian Revolution

Hardcover ? 23 February 2017

by Robert Service

  • Publisher : Macmillan (23 February 2017)
  • Language : English
  • Pages : 400 pages
  • ISBN-13 : 9781447293095
  • Weight : 692 g
  • Dimensions : Macmillan (23 February 2017)|15.3 x 3.3 x 23.4 cm

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ISBN-10: 1447293096
ISBN-13: 9781447293095
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Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2/23/2017

In February 1917, Nicholas II, the last Tsar of All the Russias, abdicated and the dynasty that had ruled an empire for three hundred years was forced from power by revolution. Now, on the hundredth anniversary of that revolution, the eminent historian of Russia, Robert Service examines Nicholas's reign in the year before his abdication and the months between that momentous date and his death, with his family, in Ekaterinburg in July 1918.

The story has been told many times, but Service's profound understanding of the period and his forensic examination of hitherto untapped sources, including the Tsar's diaries and recorded conversations, shed remarkable new light on his reign, also revealing the kind of ruler Nicholas believed himself to have been, contrary to the disastrous reality.

Last of the Tsars is a masterful study of a man who was almost entirely out of his depth, perhaps even wilfully so. It is also a compelling account of the social, economic and political foment in Russia in the aftermath of Alexander Kerensky's February Revolution, the Bolshevik seizure of power in October 1917 and the beginnings of Lenin's Soviet republic
 

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Weight 0.692 kg
Dimensions 15.3 × 23.4 × 3.3 cm

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