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The End of Tsarist Russia

Book information

Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Year
2015
ISBN
9780698195561, 0698195566
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
12 MB (12825475 bytes)
Pages
\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52

Description

An Economist Best Book of the YearA Financial Times Best Book of the Year"Lieven has a double gift: first, for harvesting details to convey the essence of an era and, second, for finding new, startling, and clarifying elements in familiar stories. This is history with a heartbeat, and it could not be more engrossing."—Foreign AffairsOne of the world's leading scholars offers a fresh interpretation of the linked origins of World War I and the Russian Revolution World War I and the Russian Revolution together shaped the twentieth century in profound ways. In The End of Tsarist Russia, acclaimed scholar Dominic Lieven connects for the first time the two events, providing both a history of the First World War's origins from a Russian perspective and an international history of why the revolution happened. Based on exhaustive work in seven Russian archives as well as many non-Russian sources, Dominic Lieven's...

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