Towards the Flame
Empire, War and the End of Tsarist Russia
$40.11
- Paperback
448 pages
- Release Date
16 May 2016
Summary
A powerful, brilliantly written account of the destruction of Imperial Russia in World War One and its aftermath.
“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 foreig…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141399744 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141399740 |
| Author: | Dominic Lieven |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 448 |
| Release Date: | 16 May 2016 |
| Weight: | 336g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 28mm |
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A book of immense scholarship and engaging readability. Through an eastern window rarely opened to Western gaze, it illuminates the end of Europe’s old order and the explosive start of the twentieth century – David Reynolds, author of The Long Shadow: The Great War and the Twentieth Century Not just one of the greatest historians on Russia, but also a great writer – Antony Beevor The Independent With its important new evidence about Russia’s slide towards war, this is a much-needed account of a how a few clever but foolish men ruined their country and brought disaster on themselves – Victor Sebestyen Sunday Times An illuminating history of late tsarist Russia by Lieven… he writes with all the clarity, conviction and fluent command of sources that readers have come to expect of him – Tony Barber Financial Times
About The Author
Dominic Lieven
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.
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