Richard Charques - The Twilight of Imperial Russia

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Språk: Engelsk
Vekt: 0,250
Sider: 250
Trykket i: 1977
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Oppdatert: 27.01.2024
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HISTORY 
TIM TWILIGHT OF IMPERIAL RUSSIA RICHARDCBARQUES 
The fateful twenty-three years following the accession of the last of the Romanov Tsars formed the prologue to the Russian Revolution, and fore-shadowed the motives and mental attitudes of Russian policy today. Richard Charques's detailed, vivid, and objective account of the reign of Nicholas II is based upon a wide study of Russian and other sources. it is given particular force and liveliness by the portrait gallery of the leading figures of the period; Nicholas II, the Tsaritsa Alexandra, Constantine Pobedonostsev, Sergius Witte, Lenin. Trotsky, Premier Stolypin, Miluikov, and Rasputin. Boklibris.no. Since the Bolsheviks were only one of the several rival groups contending for power amid the decay of Tsarist autocracy, the author has charted the tides. and currents represented by all the factions and parties, legal and under-ground, which swelled the revolutionary cataclysm. He analyses the error and confusion of the Russian liberals and, in addition, indicates some of the un-fulfilled possibilities of the reign which still exercise the imagination. The bibliography for this edition has been revised and brought up to date by Professor Leonard Schapiro. 
"Striking phrases, fine judgments, flashes of deep perception, flicker through these pages, illuminating the sad, sombre story, which Mr. Charques is not afraid to extend, by implication, into the present." Observer (London) 
"Informative and well written, and the story of the last phase of the Romano-vs is . . . movingly told." New Statesman (London) "Mr. Charques writes with great lucidity and elegance; he has also unusual discernment, a healthy sense of historical reality, and a penetrating mind .. . Scrupulously fair." Times Educational Supplement (London) "An uncommonly good book about the decline and fall of the Russian em-pire — lucid, incisive, well balanced, and extremely well written." Chicago Sunday Tribune 
Richard Charques, who was a correspondent for The Times (London), was also the author of The Soviets and the Next War, Soviet Education, A Short History of Russia, and translator of The Nineteen and Leningrad in the Days
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