I try not to think too hard
Greg Afinogenov: The End of Tsarist Russia, 4 February 2016
Towards the Flame: Empire, War and the End of Tsarist Russia
by Dominic Lieven.
Allen Lane, 429 pp., £25, May 2015,978 1 84614 381 6 Show More
by Dominic Lieven.
Allen Lane, 429 pp., £25, May 2015,
Imperial Apocalypse: The Great War and the Destruction of the Russian Empire
by Joshua Sanborn.
Oxford, 304 pp., £18.99, October 2015,978 0 19 874568 6 Show More
by Joshua Sanborn.
Oxford, 304 pp., £18.99, October 2015,
“... turned out to mean everything for the collapse of the Russian Empire is the story told by Joshua Sanborn in Imperial Apocalypse. Sanborn traces the way the dislocation, decentralisation and social fracturing generated by the retreats and mass migrations of the war made their way, like cracks in glass, to the ... ”
