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The Last of the Tsars

Nicholas II and the Russian Revolution

By (author) Robert Service
Format: Hardback
Publisher: Pan Macmillan, London, United Kingdom
Imprint: Macmillan
Published: 23rd Feb 2017
Dimensions: w 153mm h 234mm d 33mm
Weight: 692g
Interest age: From 18 years
ISBN-10: 1447293096
ISBN-13: 9781447293095
Barcode No: 9781447293095
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Synopsis
In March 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, Robert Service, the eminent historian of Russia, 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. The Last of the Tsars is a masterful study of a man who was almost entirely out of his depth, perhaps even willfully 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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