A catalogue of works in all departments of English literature
Author : Longmans, Green and co
Publisher :
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,79 MB
Release : 1848
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Longmans, Green and co
Publisher :
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,79 MB
Release : 1848
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Andrei Maylunas
Publisher : Phoenix
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 20,86 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Kings and rulers
ISBN : 9780753800447
In the darkest days of the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union, when all talk of the Romanovs was punishable at the very least by banishment to Serbia, a group of archivists were exempt. They sorted and filed the thousands of letters and photographs of the last Tsar of Russia, Nicholas II, his wife, Alexandra (a granddaughter of Queen Victoria), and their five children. In all, some 13,000 letters have survived. Those between 1889 and 1914 have never before been published. They run the gamut from matters of state to intimate expressions of love and longing. In addition there are the letters of their four daughters and their only son, the haemophiliac Alexis, whose health was to introduce the crucial and some say malign influence of Rasputin. The editors also draw on Nicholas's diaries, letters to his mother, and the diaries and memoirs of their close contemporaries. It includes first hand accounts of the murder of Rasputin in 1916 and the assassination of the Romanovs at Ekaterinburg in 1918.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 30,39 MB
Release : 1848
Category :
ISBN :
Author : South African Public Library (CAPETOWN)
Publisher :
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 41,90 MB
Release : 1862
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Mercantile Library Association (NEW YORK)
Publisher :
Page : 982 pages
File Size : 20,50 MB
Release : 1866
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Richard Holt Hutton
Publisher :
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 45,61 MB
Release : 1858
Category : Books
ISBN :
Author : Sean McMeekin
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 40,37 MB
Release : 2017-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 046509497X
From an award-winning scholar comes this definitive, single-volume history that illuminates the tensions and transformations of the Russian Revolution. In The Russian Revolution, acclaimed historian Sean McMeekin traces the events which ended Romanov rule, ushered the Bolsheviks into power, and introduced Communism to the world. Between 1917 and 1922, Russia underwent a complete and irreversible transformation. Taking advantage of the collapse of the Tsarist regime in the middle of World War I, the Bolsheviks staged a hostile takeover of the Russian Imperial Army, promoting mutinies and mass desertions of men in order to fulfill Lenin's program of turning the "imperialist war" into civil war. By the time the Bolsheviks had snuffed out the last resistance five years later, over 20 million people had died, and the Russian economy had collapsed so completely that Communism had to be temporarily abandoned. Still, Bolshevik rule was secure, owing to the new regime's monopoly on force, enabled by illicit arms deals signed with capitalist neighbors such as Germany and Sweden who sought to benefit-politically and economically-from the revolutionary chaos in Russia. Drawing on scores of previously untapped files from Russian archives and a range of other repositories in Europe, Turkey, and the United States, McMeekin delivers exciting, groundbreaking research about this turbulent era. The first comprehensive history of these momentous events in two decades, The Russian Revolution combines cutting-edge scholarship and a fast-paced narrative to shed new light on one of the most significant turning points of the twentieth century.
Author : Mercantile library assoc New York
Publisher :
Page : 716 pages
File Size : 22,68 MB
Release : 1866
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Diane P. Koenker
Publisher :
Page : 836 pages
File Size : 33,14 MB
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780393803
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 18,98 MB
Release : 1858
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :