The End Of Tsarist Russia

Author : Dominic Lieven
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780698195561

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The End of Tsarist Russia by Dominic Lieven Pdf

An Economist Best Book of the Year A Financial Times Best Book of the Year Winner of the the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize Finalist for the Lionel Gelber Prize An Amazon Best Book of the Month (History) One of the world’s leading scholars offers a fresh interpretation of the linked origins of World War I and the Russian Revolution "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 Affairs 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 work is about far more than just Russia. By placing the crisis of empire at its core, Lieven links World War I to the sweep of twentieth-century global history. He shows how contemporary hot issues such as the struggle for Ukraine were already crucial elements in the run-up to 1914. By incorporating into his book new approaches and comparisons, Lieven tells the story of war and revolution in a way that is truly original and thought-provoking.

Author : Dominic Lieven
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781846143823

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Towards the Flame by Dominic Lieven Pdf

TLS BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2016 FINANCIAL TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2015 WINNER OF THE PUSHKIN HOUSE RUSSIAN BOOK PRIZE 2016 'Magisterial... reveals how much is at stake for world order in Ukraine and Syria.' Rachel Polonsky 'As much as anything, World War I turned on the fate of Ukraine' The decision to go to war in 1914 had catastrophic consequences for Russia. The result was revolution, civil war and famine in 1917-20, followed by decades of communist rule. Dominic Lieven's powerful and original book, based on exhaustive and unprecedented study in Russian and many other foreign archives, explains why this suicidal decision was made and explores the world of the men who made it, thereby consigning their entire class to death or exile and making their country the victim of a uniquely terrible political experiment under Lenin and Stalin. Dominic Lieven is a Senior Research Fellow of Trinity College,Cambridge University, and a Fellow of the British Academy. His book Russia Against Napoleon (Penguin) won the Wolfson Prize for History and the Prize of the Fondation Napoleon for the best foreign work on the Napoleonic era.

Author : Dominic Lieven
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1026378882

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The End of Tsarist Russia by Dominic Lieven Pdf

Author : Dominic Lieven
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-31
Category : Germany
ISBN : 0141399740

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Towards the Flame by Dominic Lieven Pdf

"As much as anything, World War I turned on the fate of Ukraine' The decision to go to war in 1914 had catastrophic consequences for Russia. The result was revolution, civil war and famine in 1917-20, followed by decades of communist rule. Dominic Lieven's powerful and original new book, based on exhaustive and unprecedented study in Russian and many other foreign archives, explains why this suicidal decision was made and explores the world of the men who made it, thereby consigning their entire class to death or exile and making their country the victim of a uniquely terrible political experiment under Lenin and Stalin."

Author : David G. Rempel
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442613188

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A Mennonite Family in Tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union, 1789-1923 by David G. Rempel Pdf

Rempel combines his first-hand account of life in Russian Mennonite settlements during the landmark period of 1900-1920, with a rich portrait of six generations of his ancestral family from the foundation of the first colony in 1789.

Author : Peter Waldron
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1997-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0312165374

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The End of Imperial Russia, 1855-1917 by Peter Waldron Pdf

Waldron explores the long-term reasons for the demise of Imperial Russia and examines the failure of the autocratic state to strengthen its own political position while economic change transformed Russian society.

Author : Fredric S. Zuckerman
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1996-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814796733

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The Tsarist Secret Police and Russian Society, 1880-1917 by Fredric S. Zuckerman Pdf

Karakozov in 1866, Russian political life became trapped within a vicious circle of political reaction, growing disillusionment with the government and intensifying political dissent that increasingly manifested itself in acts of terrorism against Tsarist officials.

Author : Alan Woods
Publisher : Wellred Books
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781913026134

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The First World War – A Marxist Analysis of the Great Slaughter by Alan Woods Pdf

On 28 June 1914, two pistol shots shattered the peace of a sunny afternoon in Sarajevo. Those shots reverberated around Europe and shattered the peace of the whole world. This was the beginning of the Great Slaughter. Could it have been avoided? Alan Woods uses the method of Marxism to answer this question. He explains that, actually, whilst individuals play an important role in history, to explain events such as wars, one must look at deeper causes. As well as dealing with the origin of the war, Woods traces the conflict through its development, looking at the role of all the major actors, and their aims. He shows how in the midst of the despair of the trenches and the home front, a new consciousness was formed. He also makes the case that it was the German Revolution that brought the war to an end, and how a revolutionary wave swept across Europe. The book also looks at the Treaty of Versailles and how the victorious powers imposed the deal, not just on Germany, but the rest of Europe and the Middle East. Given the amount of nationalistic mystification from all sides about the First World War, a history of the subject from the standpoint of the world working class is essential and it is provided by this book.

Author : Peter Oxley
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0199134189

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Russia, 1855-1991 by Peter Oxley Pdf

Written for the AS/A2 examinations, this book focuses on exam-board selected topics. It covers almost 150 years of Russian history, from Alexander II, through Glasnost, to the modern times. It deals the period 1895 -1941, with separate chapters on the Russian Revolution, Lenin and Stalin.

Author : Robert Service
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781447293118

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The Last of the Tsars by Robert Service Pdf

‘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, Observer 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. In this masterful and forensic study, Robert Service examines the last year 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, The Last of the Tsars reveals 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.

Author : Maureen Perrie,D. C. B. Lieven,Ronald Grigor Suny
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521812276

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The Cambridge History of Russia: Volume 1, From Early Rus' to 1689 by Maureen Perrie,D. C. B. Lieven,Ronald Grigor Suny Pdf

An authoritative history of Russia from early Rus' to the reign of Peter the Great.

Author : D. C. B. Lieven
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Russia
ISBN : 0333283694

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Russia and the Origins of the First World War by D. C. B. Lieven Pdf

Studie over de omstandigheden die ertoe geleid hebben dat Rusland betrokken raakte bij de eerste wereldoorlog

Author : Dominic Lieven
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141947440

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Russia Against Napoleon by Dominic Lieven Pdf

'A compulsive page-turner ... a triumph of brilliant storytelling ... an instant classic that is an awesome, remarkable and exuberant achievement' Simon Sebag Montefiore Winner of the Wolfson History Prize and shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize In the summer of 1812 Napoleon, the master of Europe, marched into Russia with the largest army ever assembled, confident that he would sweep everything before him. Yet less than two years later his empire lay in ruins, and Russia had triumphed. This is the first history to explore in depth Russia's crucial role in the Napoleonic Wars, re-creating the epic battle between two empires as never before. Dominic Lieven writes with great panache and insight to describe from the Russians' viewpoint how they went from retreat, defeat and the burning of Moscow to becoming the new liberators of Europe; the consequences of which could not have been more important. Ultimately this book shows, memorably and brilliantly, Russia embarking on its strange, central role in Europe's existence, as both threat and protector - a role that continues, in all its complexity, into our own lifetimes.

Author : Edvard Radzinsky
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006-11-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780743284264

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Alexander II by Edvard Radzinsky Pdf

Profiles the Romanov Dynasty tsar as one of Russia's most forward-thinking rulers, documenting his efforts to redefine history by bringing freedom to his country, and describing the series of assassination attempts that eventually ended his life.

Author : Dominic Lieven
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1991-02-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0300049374

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Russia's Rulers Under the Old Regime by Dominic Lieven Pdf

Who were the members of the Russian ruling elite during the reign of the last Tsar before the Revolution? How did high-level politics operate in Imperial Russia's last years? In this highly original book, Dominic Lieven probes deeply into the lives of the 215 men appointed by Nicholas II to the State Council, which contained all important members of the Russian governmental system of that era. Basing his research on previously untouched Soviet archival sources, Dominic Lieven describes the social, ethnic, educational, and career backgrounds of these men, and he explores how their mentalities were shaped, what their political views were, and how their attitudes and opinions were influenced by their differing backgrounds and careers. Lieven looks not only forward to the causes of the collapse of the old regime but, in his introductory chapter, backward as well, tracing the history of the Russian ruling elite from its earliest origins and making comparisons with the ruling elite of other societies. His conclusions about the resilience of the old aristocratic Russian families and the operation of their self-protective, career-advancing network are striking and original. Lieven's book serves many purposes. It tells us a great deal about the balance of power between the bureaucrats and their monarchs, it brings to life the members of the last ruling elite, and it reveals interesting information about the role and personality of the Emperor Nicholas II. By making regular comparisons with aristocratic elites elsewhere, it sets the Russian experience in a broader European context. And by looking at Russia's problems through the eyes of its ruling aristocracy, it enables us to understand a good deal that is otherwise incomprehensible about the coming of the Russian Revolution.