num_pages: 448
description: An Economist Best Book of the YearA Financial Times Best Book of the Year.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. This is history with a heartbeat and it could not be more engrossing.Foreign AffairsOne of the worlds leading scholars offers a fresh interpretation of the linked origins of World War I and the Russian Revolution.World War I and the Russian Revolution together shaped the twentieth century in profound ways. In The End of Tsarist Russia Dominic Lieven connects for the first time the two events providing both a history of the First World Wars origins from a Russian perspective and an international history of why the revolution happened.Based on exhaustive work in seven Russian archives as well as many non-Russian sources Dominic Lievens work is about far more than just Russia. By placing the crisis of empire at its core Lieven links World War I to the sweep of twentieth-century global history. He shows how contemporary issues such as the struggle for Ukraine were already crucial elements in the run-up to 1914.By incorporating into his book new approaches and comparisons Lieven tells the story of war and revolution in a way that is truly original and thought-provoking.
language: English
title: The End of Tsarist Russia: The March to World War I and Revolution
publisher: Viking