Towards the Flame
A powerful account of the destruction of Imperial Russia in WWI and its aftermath, drawing on Russian documents that have never been seen before.
448 Seiten
Hardcover
Erscheinungsdatum 31.03.2016
ISBN 9780141399744
Dominic Lieven is a Senior Research Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge University, and a Fellow of the British Academy. His book Russia Against Napoleon (Penguin) won the Wolfson Prize for History and the Prize of the Fondation Napoleon for the best foreign work on the Napoleonic era.
Based on a study in Russian and many other foreign archives, this title explains why this suicidal decision was made and explores the world of the men who made it, thereby consigning their entire class to death or exile and making their country the victim of a uniquely terrible political experiment under Lenin and Stalin.