The Russian Revolution Victor Sebestyen Apollo Αγγλικά Βιβλία History World

An Illustrated Account Of One The Most Pivotal Events In Modern History – Russian Revolution 1917 Early Years Twentieth Century Imperial Russia Was Ethnically Diverse Empire Stretching From Ukraine And Belarus West To Bering Sea Okhotsk Far East At Head This Profoundly Dysfunctional Polity Tsar Nicholas Ii Whose Romanov Successors Had Ruled Since Start Seventeenth With A Lethal Mixture Domestic Cruelty Expansionist Energy Reactionary Incompetence Interspersed Occasional Reformist Spasms By Unreformable Tsar\ S Authority Irreparably Damaged March That Year Abdicated Tsarist System Overthrown Provisional Government Installed Its Stead Organise Democratic Elections Lasted Just Eight Chaotic Months Before Being Ousted Lenin\ Bolsheviks October Writing Crisp Immediacy Sebestyen Narrates Unprecedented Era Political Social Convulsion Changed Course More Than Later Their Backwash Continues Be Deeply Felt Across World Σελίδες: 240 Έτος Έκδοσης: 1003 Διαστάσεις: 15 6X15 6Cm