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x, 305 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations, map, portraits ; 25 cm |
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 288-294) and index. |
| Note |
"First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback, 1994." |
| Summary |
"Ferro has searched extensively in Russian archives to illuminate Nicholas's character. What emerges is a vivid portrait of a reluctant leader, a young man forced by the death of his father into a role for which he was ill-equipped. A conformist and traditionalist, Nicholas admired the order, ritual, and ceremony identified with the intangible grandeur of autocracy, and he hated everything that might shake that autocracy--the intelligentsia, the Jews, the religious sects. His reign, as Ferro documents, was one of continual trouble: a humiliating war with Japan; the 1905 revolution that forced Nicholas to accept a constitutional assembly, the Duma; the international crisis of 1914, leading to World War I; and finally the Revolution of 1917, forcing his abdication"--Publisher marketing. |
| Subject |
Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia, 1868-1918.
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Russia -- Kings and rulers -- Biography.
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Russia -- History -- Nicholas II, 1894-1917.
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Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia, 1868-1918 (OCoLC)fst00037563
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Kings and rulers. (OCoLC)fst00987694
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Russia. (OCoLC)fst01207312
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| Chronological Term |
1894-1917
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| Genre/Form |
History (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
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Biographies.
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| Added Title |
Nicholas the second |
| Cover Title |
Nicholas II : the last of the tsars |
| ISBN |
0195093828 |
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9780195093827 |
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0195081927 |
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9780195081923 |
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