This book explores the role of empire in world history. What does it mean to be an empire? How does one differ from another? Why does an empire rise and why fall? Why have empires flourished in some eras and regions of the world but not in others? On an unusually wide canvas, Dominic Lieven addresses all these questions. His central focus is on ...
The granddaughter of Queen Victoria and Tsar Alexander II of Russia, Queen Marie of Romania was one of the most brilliant monarchs of the twentieth century. She distinguished herself not only during the years of the First World War through her charity activities or through her informal political-diplomatic effort, but also because she was a gifted ...
In the tradition of Robert Massie's The Romanovs: The Final Chapter, this book sheds new light on the Tsar and the royal family. Using his 15-year study of Imperial Russia and archival material from around the world, Lieven shows that the downfall of both the Imperial and the Soviet regimes fits a pattern of ongoing Russian history, one that bears ...
Intellectual, social, and economic developments in Victorian and Edwardian Europe threatened the wealth, status, and power of the aristocracy. What precisely were these threats? How did the aristocracy respond to them? What strategies for survival did it adopt--and why did the various aristocracies adopt different strategies? What impact did the ...
The second volume of The Cambridge History of Russia covers the imperial period (1689-1917). It encompasses political, economic, social, cultural, diplomatic, and military history. All the major Russian social groups have separate chapters and the volume also includes surveys on the non-Russian peoples and the government's policies towards them. ...
This is a definitive new history of Russia from early Rus' to the successor states that emerged after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Volume I encompasses developments before the reign of Peter I; volume II covers the 'imperial era', from Peter's time to the fall of the monarchy in March 1917; and volume III continues the story through to the ...
When the Revolution broke out in 1917, Sergei Golitsyn was just 8 years old. His memoir of the Revolution and the years that followed constitute one of the most powerful testimonies of events of that time. The Golitsyn's, descendents of Catherine the Great, were early victims of the communist terror. Young Golitsyn describes how his mother is ...
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