Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Quick and Easy Sign Up!

It takes less then 1 minute to sign up, then you can enjoy Unlimited eBooks.

Sign Up Browse

Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

  • Download on iOS
  • Download on Android
  • Download on iOS

The Last Tsar: The Abdication of Nicholas II and the Fall of the Romanovs

Tsuyoshi Hasegawa
3.71/5 (194 ratings)
Read Now Download Now
The definitive story behind the self-destruction of the autocratic Romanov dynasty, by the world’s foremost expert

When Tsar Nicholas II fell from power in 1917, Imperial Russia faced a series of overlapping crises, from war to social unrest. Though Nicholas’s life is often described as tragic, it was not fate that doomed the Romanovs—it was poor leadership and a blinkered faith in autocracy.     

Based on a trove of new archival discoveries, The Last Tsar narrates how Nicholas’s resistance to reform doomed the monarchy. Encompassing the captivating personalities of the era—the bumbling Nicholas, his spiteful wife Alexandra, the family’s faith healer Rasputin—it untangles the dramatic struggle by Russia’s aristocratic, military, and legislative elite to reform the monarchy. By rejecting compromise, Nicholas undermined his supporters at crucial moments. His blunders cleared the way for all-out civil war and the eventual rise of the Soviet Union. 

Definitive and engrossing, The Last Tsar uncovers how Nicholas II stumbled into revolution, taking his family, the Romanov dynasty, and the whole Russian Empire down with him.
Format:
Pages:
pages
Publication:
Publisher:
Edition:
Language:
ISBN10:
1541606167
ISBN13:
9781541606166
kindle Asin:
B0CZLBKVWZ

The Last Tsar: The Abdication of Nicholas II and the Fall of the Romanovs

Tsuyoshi Hasegawa
3.71/5 (194 ratings)
Read Download
The definitive story behind the self-destruction of the autocratic Romanov dynasty, by the world’s foremost expert

When Tsar Nicholas II fell from power in 1917, Imperial Russia faced a series of overlapping crises, from war to social unrest. Though Nicholas’s life is often described as tragic, it was not fate that doomed the Romanovs—it was poor leadership and a blinkered faith in autocracy.     

Based on a trove of new archival discoveries, The Last Tsar narrates how Nicholas’s resistance to reform doomed the monarchy. Encompassing the captivating personalities of the era—the bumbling Nicholas, his spiteful wife Alexandra, the family’s faith healer Rasputin—it untangles the dramatic struggle by Russia’s aristocratic, military, and legislative elite to reform the monarchy. By rejecting compromise, Nicholas undermined his supporters at crucial moments. His blunders cleared the way for all-out civil war and the eventual rise of the Soviet Union. 

Definitive and engrossing, The Last Tsar uncovers how Nicholas II stumbled into revolution, taking his family, the Romanov dynasty, and the whole Russian Empire down with him.
Format:
Pages:
pages
Publication:
Publisher:
Edition:
Language:
ISBN10:
1541606167
ISBN13:
9781541606166
kindle Asin:
B0CZLBKVWZ

More Books

Citizen: My Life After the White House

Bill Clinton

Hitler's People: The Faces of the Third Reich

Richard J. Evans

America First: Roosevelt vs. Lindbergh in the Shadow of War

H.W. Brands

Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman's Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue

Sonia Purnell

The Lives and Deaths of the Princesses of Hesse: The curious destinies of Queen Victoria's granddaughters

Frances Welch

Ocean: A History of the Atlantic Before Columbus

John Haywood

Reagan: His Life and Legend

Max Boot

The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens

Nicola Clark

The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks the World

Atossa Araxia Abrahamian

Food for Thought: Essays and Ruminations

Alton Brown

Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

Adam Higginbotham

The Medici Return (Cotton Malone, #19)

Steve Berry