Victor Sebestyen

The Russian Revolution

An illustrated account of one of the most pivotal events in modern history - the Russian revolution of 1917. In the early years of the twentieth century, Imperial Russia was an ethnically diverse empire, stretching from Ukraine and Belarus in the west to the Bering Sea and the Sea of Okhotsk in the Far East. At the head of this profoundly dysfunctional polity was Tsar Nicholas II, whose Romanov successors had ruled Russia since the start of the seventeenth century with a lethal mixture of domestic cruelty, expansionist energy and reactionary incompetence - interspersed with occasional reformist spasms.By early 1917, Russia was unreformable, and the tsar's authority irreparably damaged. In March of that year, Nicholas II abdicated and the tsarist system was overthrown. The provisional government installed in its stead to organise democratic elections lasted just eight chaotic months before being ousted by Lenin's Bolsheviks in the October Revolution.Writing with crisp immediacy, Sebestyen narrates an unprecedented era of political and social convulsion. The Russian Revolutions changed the course of history, and, more than a century later, their backwash continues to be deeply felt across the world.

An illustrated account of one of the most pivotal events in modern history - the Russian revolution of 1917. In the early years of the twentieth century, Imperial Russia was an ethnically diverse empire, stretching from Ukraine and Belarus in the west to the Bering Sea and the Sea of Okhotsk in the Far East. At the head of this profoundly dysfunctional polity was Tsar Nicholas II, whose Romanov successors had ruled Russia since the start of the seventeenth century with a lethal mixture of domestic cruelty, expansionist energy and reactionary incompetence - interspersed with occasional reformist spasms.By early 1917, Russia was unreformable, and the tsar's authority irreparably damaged. In March of that year, Nicholas II abdicated and the tsarist system was overthrown. The provisional government installed in its stead to organise democratic elections lasted just eight chaotic months before being ousted by Lenin's Bolsheviks in the October Revolution.Writing with crisp immediacy, Sebestyen narrates an unprecedented era of political and social convulsion. The Russian Revolutions changed the course of history, and, more than a century later, their backwash continues to be deeply felt across the world.

Nyelv angol
Kiadó Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Oldalak száma 272
Kötés típusa Hardback
Méretek (Sz-M-H) 234 x 156
EAN 9781800244719
Szállítási idő Nem elérhető


További termékek a kategóriából:


Morris Pink Honeysuckle Záložka
-9%
Szállítási idő
online ár - Készleten - 1 munkanap
3,10 €
2,83 €
Számok, ellentétek, formák, színek lexikona - Mit? Miért? Hogyan? Mini
-10%
Doris Rübel
Szállítási idő
online ár - Készleten - 1 munkanap
19,50 €
17,55 €
11.22.63.
-10%
Stephen King
Szállítási idő
online ár - Készleten - 1 munkanap
32,80 €
29,52 €
Masszázs - Titkok nélkül (2. kiadás)
-10%
Cathy Meeus
Szállítási idő
online ár - Készleten - 1 munkanap
15,55 €
14,00 €
Álomörvények mólóján
Motesiczky Gábor
Szállítási idő
online ár - Készleten - 1 munkanap
8,00 €
 Márk evangéliuma
-9%
Szállítási idő
online ár - Készleten - 1 munkanap
0,55 €
0,50 €
Amikor búcsúzni kell… - Gondolatok az elengedésről: a szeretett személy elvesztése és az odáig vezető út
-10%
Marilyn Chandler McEntyre
Szállítási idő
online ár - Készleten - 1 munkanap
11,45 €
10,31 €
Az utolsó nagyhercegnő
-10%
Bryn Turnbull
Szállítási idő
online ár - Készleten - 1 munkanap
14,75 €
13,28 €