The Last Of The Tsars: Nicholas Ii And The Russia Revolution
by Robert Service /
2017 / English / EPUB
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A riveting account of the last eighteen months of Tsar
Nicholas II's life and reign from one of the finest Russian
historians writing today.
A riveting account of the last eighteen months of Tsar
Nicholas II's life and reign from one of the finest Russian
historians writing today.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 life and thought
from the months before his momentous abdication to his death, with
his family, in Ekaterinburg in July 1918.
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 life and thought
from the months before his momentous abdication to his death, with
his family, in Ekaterinburg in July 1918.
The story has been told many times, but Service's deep
understanding of the period and his forensic examination of
previously untapped sources, including the Tsar's diaries and
recorded conversations, as well as the testimonies of the official
inquiry, shed remarkable new light on his troubled reign, also
revealing the kind of Russia that Nicholas wanted to emerge from
the Great War.
The story has been told many times, but Service's deep
understanding of the period and his forensic examination of
previously untapped sources, including the Tsar's diaries and
recorded conversations, as well as the testimonies of the official
inquiry, shed remarkable new light on his troubled reign, also
revealing the kind of Russia that Nicholas wanted to emerge from
the Great War.The Last of the Tsars
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
ferment in Russia that followed the February Revolution, the
Bolshevik seizure of power in October 1917 and the beginnings of
Lenin's Soviet socialist republic. 16 pages of photographs
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
ferment in Russia that followed the February Revolution, the
Bolshevik seizure of power in October 1917 and the beginnings of
Lenin's Soviet socialist republic. 16 pages of photographs
