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

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

Service, Robert

Editorial Macmillan
Fecha de edición febrero 2017 · Edición nº 1

Idioma inglés

EAN 9781447293095
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Resumen del libro

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.

Biografía del autor

Robert Service es un historiador británico especializado en Rusia y profesor en el St Antony's College de Oxford. Sus últimas obras publicadas son Lenin: una biografía (2001), Rusia, experimento con un pueblo: de 1991 a la actualidad (2005), Stalin: una biografía (2006), Camaradas: breve historia del comunismo (2009), Trotski (2010), Spies and Commissars (2011) The End of the Cold War, 1985-1991 (2015), The Last of the Tsars: Nicholas II and the Russian Revolution (2017) y Russia and Its Islamic World, From the Mongol Conquest to the Syrian Intervention (2017).





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