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The Romanov Empire: 1613-1917
Dr. Alan Wood
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The Russian dynasty of the Romanov tsars was born in 1613 during an era of intense civil strife with the coronation of Mikhail Fedorivch Romanov; it was destroyed in the revolutionary turmoil of 1917. In the intervening three centuries the relatively small, land-locked kingdom of Muscovy grew into the world's largest land empire. Yet size was no protection for the dynasty, and throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries there developed a conflicting triangular relationship which had, at its apex, the tsarist autocratic government and, at the other two angles, the separate focuses of mass popular opinion and intellectual dissent. These ... Read more
The Russian dynasty of the Romanov tsars was born in 1613 during an era of intense civil strife with the coronation of Mikhail Fedorivch Romanov; it was destroyed in the revolutionary turmoil of 1917. In the intervening three centuries the relatively small, land-locked kingdom of Muscovy grew into the world's largest land empire. Yet size was no protection for the dynasty, and throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries there developed a conflicting triangular relationship which had, at its apex, the tsarist autocratic government and, at the other two angles, the separate focuses of mass popular opinion and intellectual dissent. These ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
444
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Number of Pages
444
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780340761885
SKU
V9780340761885
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About Dr. Alan Wood
Alan Wood is Senior Lecturer in Russian History at Lancaster University and Visiting Professor of Russian History at the University of the Bosphorus, Istanbul. Previous publications include The Origins of the Russian Revolution, Stalin and Stalinism, and several books on the history of Siberia.
Reviews for The Romanov Empire: 1613-1917
"A first-rate study that offers much to students at every level ... This is currently the best short history of pre-Soviet Russia available." Professor Jeremy Black, The Historical Association