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could the young European nation wield enough power to rival the empires of Britain and France – all without destroying itself in the process In a unique study of five decades that changed the course of modern history

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of these 55 remarkable individuals

Imprint: Bloomsbury China

The last tsar Nursery rhymes could the young European nationWhen Tsar Nicholas II fell from power in 1917, Imperial Russia faced a series of overlapping crises, from war to social unrest. Though Nicholas's life is often described as tragic, it was not fate that doomed the Romanovs it was poor leadership and a blinkered faith in autocracy. Hasegawa narrates how Nicholas's resistance to reform doomed the monarchy. Encompassing the captivating personalities of the era, the book untangles the struggle by Russia's