The Last Of The Tsars: Nicholas Ii And The Russian Revolution

Author: Robert Service

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  • : January 2018
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Description

The acclaimed account of the last eighteen months of Tsar Nicholas II's life and reign from one of our finest historians of Russia.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.

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The acclaimed account of the last eighteen months of Tsar Nicholas II's life and reign from one of our finest historians of Russia.

Reviews

Brilliant, original and compelling -- Saul David * Evening Standard * The best book yet on Nicholas after his abdication -- Dominic Lieven * Financial Times * A myth-busting account of the final months of the ruler's life, from abdication to execution * Guardian * Detailed and painstakingly researched -- Peter Conradi * Sunday Times * A clear-eyed portrait of Nicholas and his limitations . . . an essential corrective * TLS *

Author description

Robert Service is a Fellow of the British Academy and of St Antony's College, Oxford. He has written several books, including the highly acclaimed Lenin: A Biography, Russia: Experiment with a People, Stalin: A Biography and Comrades: A History of World Communism, as well as many other books on Russia's past and present. His book Trotsky: A Biography was awarded the 2009 Duff Cooper Prize. Married with four children, he lives in London.