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Towards the Flame: Empire, War and the End of Tsarist Russia

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Description for Towards the Flame: Empire, War and the End of Tsarist Russia paperback. Based on a study in Russian and many other foreign archives, this title 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. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 32. Weight in Grams: 330.
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141399744
SKU
9780141399744
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About 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.

Reviews for Towards the Flame: Empire, War and the End of Tsarist Russia
Illuminating history of late tsarist Russia. Lieven writes with all the clarity, conviction and fluent command of sources that readers have come to expect of him
Tony Barber
FT
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. ... Read more

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