The empire must die : Russia's revolutionary collapse, 1900-1917, Mikhail Zygar

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The empire must die : Russia's revolutionary collapse, 1900-1917, Mikhail Zygar

Title remainder

Russia's revolutionary collapse, 1900-1917

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Mikhail Zygar

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• The empire must die : Russia's revolutionary collapse, 1900-1917

Publication

• New York, Public Affairs, 2017

Copyright

• ©2017

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 521-530) and index

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• nc

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rdacarrier

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text

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• txt

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rdacontent

Contents

Chapter 1, in which Leo Tolstoy becomes a symbol of the fight against the regime and the main ideologist of the opposition -- Chapter 2, in which Sergei Witte fails to stop Russia from invading China and seizing Beijing -- Chapter 3, in which Jews go on the war path: Mikhail Gotz and Gregory Gershuni create the most powerful opposition party in Russia -- Chapter 4, in which liberals come into fashion: Peter Struve and Pavel Milyukov become the most popular politicians in the country -- Chapter 5, in which Empress Alexandra and Dowager Empress Maria argue over who will be mistress of the palace and of Russia -- Chapter 6, in which Russian gets a new leader of popular protest: his name is Georgy Gapon -- Chapter 7, in which Black-Hundreder Alexander Dubrovin creates the first Russian party of the state, and oppositioner Maxim Gorky asks the West to stop funding Russia -- Chapter 8, in which Pyotr Stolypin and Dmitriy Trepov suggest two different ways of reforming Russia -- Chapter 9, in which art fan Sergei Diaghilev and religious fanatic Sergei Trufanov (Iliodor) try to stay independent from the state and even use it to their advantage -- Chapter 10, in which millionaires Alexander Guchkov and Pavel Ryabushinsky try to engage big business in managing the country -- Chapter 11, in which Grigory Rasputin becomes the most powerful kleptocrat and the most hated pacifist in Russia -- Chapter 12, in which there is a second leader of popular protest in Russia: his name is Alexander Kerensky -- Chapter 13, in which Irakli Tsereteli tries to turn Russian into a parliamentary democracy and Vladimir Lenin stands in his way -- Chapter 14, in which Leon Trotsky and Lev Kamenev don't wish for a Bolshevik revolt anymore, since they believe it to be completely unnecessary

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975486216

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25 cm

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First edition.

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xi, 558 pages

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9781610398312

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2017448549

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unmediated

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• n

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illustrations, maps

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.b124807483

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(OCoLC)975486216