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The Empire Must Die - Russia's Revolutionary Collapse, 1900-1917 (Hardcover)
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The Empire Must Die - Russia's Revolutionary Collapse, 1900-1917 (Hardcover)
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The Empire Must Die portrays the vivid drama of Russia's brief and
exotic experiment with civil society before it was swept away by
the despotism of the Communist Revolution. The window between two
equally stifling autocracies - the imperial family and the
communists - was open only briefly, in the last couple of years of
the 19th century until the end of WWI, by which time the revolution
was in full fury. From the last years of Tolstoy until the death of
the Tsar and his family, however, Russia experimented with
liberalism and cultural openness. In Europe, the Ballet Russe was
the height of chic. Novelists and playwrights blossomed, political
ideas were swapped in coffee houses and St Petersburg felt briefly
like Vienna or Paris. The state, however couldn't tolerate such
experimentation against the backdrop of a catastrophic war and a
failing economy. The autocrats moved in and the liberals were
overwhelmed. This story seems to have strangely prescient echoes of
the present.
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