Opis: Towards the Flame - Dominic Lieven

WINNER OF THE PUSHKIN HOUSE RUSSIAN BOOK PRIZE 2016 'As much as anything, World War I turned on the fate of Ukraine' 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 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. Dominic Lieven is a Senior Research Fellow of Trinity College,Cambridge University, and a Fellow of the British Academy. His book Russia Against Napoleon (Penguin) won the Wolfson Prize for History and the Prize of the Fondation Napoleon for the best foreign work on the Napoleonic era. A book of immense scholarship and engaging readability. Through an eastern window rarely opened to Western gaze, it illuminates the end of Europe's old order and the explosive start of the twentieth century -- David Reynolds, author of The Long Shadow: The Great War and the Twentieth Century Not just one of the greatest historians on Russia, but also a great writer -- Antony Beevor The Independent With its important new evidence about Russia's slide towards war, this is a much-needed account of a how a few clever but foolish men ruined their country and brought disaster on themselves -- Victor Sebestyen Sunday Times An illuminating history of late tsarist Russia by Lieven... he writes with all the clarity, conviction and fluent command of sources that readers have come to expect of him -- Tony Barber Financial Times

Szczegóły: Towards the Flame - Dominic Lieven

Tytuł: Towards the Flame
Autor: Dominic Lieven
Wydawnictwo: Penguin
ISBN: 9780141399744
Rok wydania: 2016
Ilość stron: 448
Oprawa: Miękka
Waga: 0.33 kg

Recenzje: Towards the Flame - Dominic Lieven