A CONTEMPORARY ANALYSIS OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION AS IT WAS HAPPENING
In the tumultuous dawn of the 20th century, empires teetered and thrones crumbled. Now, for the first time in English, witness the Russian Revolution unfold through the eyes of renowned French historian Jacques Bainville, who chronicled these earth-shattering events as they happened.
From the whispers of discontent in the halls of power to the impassioned cries of the masses, Bainville meticulously documents the forces that led to the fall of the Romanov dynasty in March 1917. Was it an inevitable consequence of a decaying autocracy, or a calculated maneuver by forces seeking to reshape Russia's destiny? The tumult of the War ? Or the consequence of Nicholas II incompetent leadership ?
Bainville meticulously documents the forces that led to the fall of the Romanov dynasty in March 1917. From the nefarious influence of a Germanized bureaucracy, to the bourgeoning nationalism of the Duma, discover how an incompetent ruler was abandoned by all.
This book offers unbelievable insight into the real-time reactions of contemporaries-unfiltered by hindsight, untouched by revisionism.
