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Also by Dominic Lieven:

In the Shadow of the Gods, June 2022
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The End of Tsarist Russia, August 2016
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THE END OF TSARIST RUSSIA
By: Dominic Lieven

The March to World War I and Revolution

Penguin Books
August 2016
On Sale: August 16, 2016
448 pages
ISBN: 0143109553
EAN: 9780143109556
Kindle: B00OZ0TLW4
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Non-Fiction History

One of the world’s leading scholars offers a fresh interpretation of the linked origins of World War I and the Russian Revolution

"Lieven has a double gift: first, for harvesting details to convey the essence of an era and, second, for finding new, startling, and clarifying elements in familiar stories. This is history with a heartbeat, and it could not be more engrossing."—Foreign Affairs

World War I and the Russian Revolution together shaped the twentieth century in profound ways. In The End of Tsarist Russia, acclaimed scholar Dominic Lieven connects for the first time the two events, providing both a history of the First World War’s origins from a Russian perspective and an international history of why the revolution happened.

Based on exhaustive work in seven Russian archives as well as many non-Russian sources, Dominic Lieven’s work is about far more than just Russia. By placing the crisis of empire at its core, Lieven links World War I to the sweep of twentieth-century global history. He shows how contemporary hot issues such as the struggle for Ukraine were already crucial elements in the run-up to 1914.

By incorporating into his book new approaches and comparisons, Lieven tells the story of war and revolution in a way that is truly original and thought-provoking.