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A masterful and forensic study of the last year of Nicholas II's reign, from a world-leading scholar of Russian history.

'Outstanding . . . essential reading' - Simon Sebag Montefiore, The Mail on Sunday

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. Robert Service examines the last year of Nicholas's reign and the months between that momentous abdication and his death, with his family, in Ekaterinburg in July 1918.

Drawing on the Tsar's own diaries and other hitherto unexamined contemporary records, Service reveals a man who was almost entirely out of his depth, perhaps even willfully so. A vivid portrait, The Last of the Tsars is simultaneously 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.

Authoritative, engaging and meticulously researched, this is a superb work of historical biography.

'A timely and important book . . . he brings to it rare clarity and common sense. His book is a fast-paced account of the last sixteen months of the tsar's life; brief, sharp, but laced with well-judged feeling for the dramas of the time' - Catherine Merridale, The Observer

Discover more fascinating Russian Revolution titles from Robert Service: Spies and Commissars and Blood on the Snow.

A masterful and forensic study of the last year of Nicholas II's reign, from a world-leading scholar of Russian history.

'Outstanding . . . essential reading' - Simon Sebag Montefiore, The Mail on Sunday

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. Robert Service examines the last year of Nicholas's reign and the months between that momentous abdication and his death, with his family, in Ekaterinburg in July 1918.

Drawing on the Tsar's own diaries and other hitherto unexamined contemporary records, Service reveals a man who was almost entirely out of his depth, perhaps even willfully so. A vivid portrait, The Last of the Tsars is simultaneously 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.

Authoritative, engaging and meticulously researched, this is a superb work of historical biography.

'A timely and important book . . . he brings to it rare clarity and common sense. His book is a fast-paced account of the last sixteen months of the tsar's life; brief, sharp, but laced with well-judged feeling for the dramas of the time' - Catherine Merridale, The Observer

Discover more fascinating Russian Revolution titles from Robert Service: Spies and Commissars and Blood on the Snow.

Über den Autor
Robert Service is a Fellow of the British Academy and of St Antony's College, Oxford. He has written several books, including the highly acclaimed Lenin: A Biography, Blood on the Snow, Stalin: A Biography and Comrades: A History of World Communism, as well as many other books on Russia's past and present. Trotsky: A Biography was awarded the Duff Cooper Prize. Married with four children, he lives in London.
Zusammenfassung
The acclaimed account of the last eighteen months of Tsar Nicholas II's life and reign from one of our finest historians of Russia.
Details
Empfohlen (von): 18
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Jahrhundert: 20. Jahrhundert
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781447293101
ISBN-10: 144729310X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Service, Robert
Hersteller: Pan Macmillan
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 198 x 131 x 32 mm
Von/Mit: Robert Service
Erscheinungsdatum: 08.02.2018
Gewicht: 0,309 kg
Artikel-ID: 110136794

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