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Count Sergei Witte and the Twilight of Imperial Russia
Sergei Witte served as finance minister and later prime minister of Russia during the reigns of Alexander III and Nicholas II, and was in large part responsible for the development policies which saw Russia transformed from a peasant economy into an industrial nation. This is the first biography of Witte in English.
Russia, a History
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The Russian Revolution of 1905
"At the start of the twentieth century, the world's most powerful ruler was the Russian Tsar. By 1905, a revolution had jeopardized the whole of Tsardom and ignited events that were to shape a new epoch in the history of man."--P. [4] of cover.
The Memoirs of Count Witte
A portrait of the twilight years of Isarism by Count Sergei Witte (1849-1915), the man who built modern Russia. Witte presents incisive and often piquant portraits of the mighty and those around them--powerful Alexander III, the weak-willed Nicholas II, and the neurasthenic Empress Alexandra, along with his own notorious cousin, Madam blavatsky, the "priestess of the occult".
First Blood
Chronicle of the class struggle between Tsarists and peasantry that created an atmosphere favorable to the Bolshevik insurrection of 1917.
