| Description |
429 pages, [4] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [409]-415) and index. |
| Contents |
A moment of history -- The doomed conspiracy -- The autocratic inheritance -- The state of the empire -- The growth of the mind -- The imperial mission -- The slow drift to disaster -- The Crimean fiasco -- The new tsar -- Revolution from above -- Limits of tolerance and vision -- Peace abroad; prosperity at home -- Aspects of self-love -- "How great is Russia!" -- The impact of terror -- The peace of the graveyard -- New wine in very old bottles -- Nicholas and Alexandra -- Defeat in Asia -- "Impossible to live thus any longer" -- Stolypin and the thirteenth hour -- The end. |
| Subject |
Romanov, House of.
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Russia -- History -- 1801-1917.
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Russia -- History -- Nicholas II, 1894-1917.
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| ISBN |
0670637823 |
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