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TOWARDS THE FLAME
EMPIRE, WAR AND THE END OF TSARIST RUSSIA |
| By: |
Dominic Lieven |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
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£25.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1846143810 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781846143816 |
| Publisher: |
PENGUIN BOOKS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
28 May, 2015 |
| Pages: |
448 |
| Description: |
The Russian decision to mobilize in July 1914 may have been the single most catastrophic choice of the modern era. This title deals with the foreign work on the Napoleonic era. |
| Synopsis: |
Financial Times Books of the Year 2015. The Russian decision to mobilize in July 1914 may have been the single most catastrophic choice of the modern era. Some articulate, thoughtful figures around the Tsar understood Russia's fragility, and yet they were shouted down by those who were convinced that, despite Germany's patent military superiority, Russian greatness required decisive action. Russia's rulers thought they were acting to secure their future, but in fact - after millions of deaths and two revolutions - they were consigning their entire class to death or exile and their country to a uniquely terrible generations-long experiment under a very different regime. 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. |
| Illustrations: |
40 b&w illustrations throughout |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Allen Lane |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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