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Towards The Flame : Empire War And The End Of Tsarist Russia
Paperback Edition: 1
The decision to go to war in 1914 had catastrophic consequences for Russia. The result was revolution, civil war and famine in 1917-20, followed by decades of communist rule. Dominic Lieven's powerful and original new book, based on exhaustive and unprecedented study in Russian and
many other foreign archives, explains why this suicidal decision was made and explores the world of the men who made it, thereby consigning their entire class to death or exile and making their country the victim of a uniquely terrible political experiment under Lenin and Stalin.
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Pages : 448
Publisher : Penguin Books
Publication date : 2016-05
Subjects: Non-fiction, Humanities, History, First World War