Alexander II: The Last Great Tsar
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
074327332X
ISBN 13
9780743273329
Category
Unknown
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Publication Year
2005
Publisher
Pages
480
Description
Edvard Radzinsky is justly famous as both a biographer and a dramatist, and he brings both skills to bear in this vivid, page-turning, rich portrait of one of the greatest of all Romanovs. Alexander II was Russia's Lincoln -- he freed the serfs, promised a new, more liberal state for everyone, yet was brought down by a determined group of terrorist anarchists who tried to kill him six times before finally, fatefully, succeeding. His story proves the timeless lesson that in Russia, it is dangerous to start reforms, but even more dangerous to stop them. It also shows that the traps and dangers encountered in today's war on terrorists were there 150 years ago. - from Amzon
Number of Copies
1
