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Towards the flame : empire, war and the end of Tsarist Russia / Dominic Lieven.
Publication details: London : Penguin Books, 2016.Description: ix, 428 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cmISBN:- 9780141399744 (paperback)
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| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Non-Fiction | 947.084 LIE | Available | 066460 |
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Originally published: UK: Allen Lane, 2015.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
'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.
