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

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A riveting account of the last eighteen months of Tsar Nicholas II’s life and reign from one of the crucial finest Russian historians writing today.

In March 1917, Nicholas II, the last Tsar of All of the Russias, abdicated and the dynasty that had ruled an empire for three hundred years was once 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 circle of relatives, in Ekaterinburg in July 1918.
The story has been told again and again, but Service’s deep understanding of the period and his forensic examination of up to now untapped sources, including the Tsar’s diaries and recorded conversations, in addition to the testimonies of the official inquiry, shed remarkable new light on his troubled reign, also revealing the type of Russia that Nicholas wanted to emerge from the Great War.
The Last of the Tsars is a masterful study of a man who was once almost entirely out of his depth, most likely even willfully so. It is usually 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

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